Campaign journal extracts: Lompolojänkkä, July 2018
Following the installation of our instrumentation at Lompolojänkkä in the Finnish Lapland, the intensive measurement campaign was set for July. I spent two weeks there with my colleague and friend Dr. Simon Schallhart and decided to share with my readers some extracts of my campaign journal. Figure 1. From top to bottom: posing in front of the FMI car; unloading the car from the train in Rovaniemi; the measurement site at Lompolojänkä; wetland chamber; reindeer out of the apartment's window; hiking on Pallastunturit; stormy clouds over Lompolojänkä; oil leak; the FMI car being towed away; birthday champagne at the sauna; evening view over Pallasjärvi lake; branch enclosure for emissions measurements. (Photo credits: Arnaud Praplan and Simon Schallhart, CC-BY-4.0 ) 1 July 2018: The departure. 03:12PM. Today is warm and sunny. I came to FMI around 1PM to meet Simon and load the car. It took less time than expected and everything fitted! Yay! There was time to go to the sh