A campaign North of the Arctic Circle
The Arctic is predicted to warm up at a quicker pace than other parts of the globe due to climate change. Therefore dramatic changes are expected to happen in that region in the future and scientists express an increasing interest for this region. As one of our main research interest is focused about substances released into the atmosphere by vegetation (biogenic volatile organic compounds, BVOCs) spring always marks the time when our instruments get to travel again to places after spending the winter in the laboratory for testing and optimization purposes. This year our group is setting up measurements of BVOCs (and other VOCs) and of hydroxyl radical (OH) reactivity in the Arctic. The Finnish Meteorological Institute has been active at Pallas in the Finnish Arctic as early as 1935. Since 1994 Pallas-Sodankylä is established as one of the global observation station of the Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) programme . The station has one node in Sodankylä at FMI's Arctic Resear