Transnational Access
1. Project Summary
The Lapland Atmosphere-Biosphere Facility, LAPBIAT, consists of seven installations which are spatially distributed to Finnish Lapland over 500 km range (Figure 1). Thus it offers a unique access to study the interactions between the thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere, biosphere and various types of ecosystems in the vicinity or north of the Arctic Circle. This is only possible with this composition of sites, which are all fully operated 7 days a week all through the year. LAPBIAT comprises of the Finnish
Meteorological Institute-Arctic Research Centre (FMI-ARC) at Sodankylä, Kevo Subarctic Research Institute,
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Kolari Research Station, Oulanka Research Station, Värriö Subarctic Research
Station and Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (SGO), which is the organisation coordinating the infrastructure. All LAPBIAT installations have operated for 40 to 100 years and have strong support from the
Finnish Universities, research institutes and local communities. LAPBIAT was selected as TARI site in FP5 under IHP Access to Research Infrastructures of the European Union and had its 29 month contract period in
November 2001 - March 2004.
LAPBIAT offers access to research facilities, monitoring sites, datasets etc. from on line satellite data to upper atmosphere, middle and lower atmosphere and to biosphere. The exhaustive lists of all available research opportunities, parameters and data sets are found in Figures 2 and 3. Access to these data is available for users.
2. Project website address: http://www.sgo.fi/lapbiat/
3. List of participants
Participant number
(co-ordinator = N°1)
1
Participant name
(Organisation, city, country)
Short name
UOulu
2
3
4
5
University of Oulu
Finnish Meteorological Institute
University of Turku
University of Helsinki
Finnish Forest Research Institute
FMI
U.Turku
UH
FFRI