Reactivit'Air

It is a yearly routine: the temperature slowly increase and there is more light. It is then time to transport our instrumentation to the field! After our measurement campaign in Lapland last year (I wrote about it previously here and here ), this year we are back at the SMEAR II station in Hyytiälä in southern Finland. The SMEAR II station has become a hotspot for atmospheric sciences starting from the mid-1990s. The Finnish Meteorological Institute performs routine measurements there and research is also conducted at the site on Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) and other topics related to air quality. We performed an OH reactivity study at this site in 2016 (which is currently under review for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, see the open discussion ), which was building on previous studies by Sinha et al. (2010) and Nölscher et al. (2012) . Then, we extended the study period to include the spring and not only summer as the mentioned earlier studies. One result of ...

Figure 1. Wall projection in the Think Corner of the University of Helsinki during INAR Climate Festival (Picture: Arnaud Praplan, CC-BY-4.0 ) The INAR Climate Festival took place on 25 May in the Think Corner of the University of Helsinki. It was a large event meant to inaugurate the new Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) and present its important research to society.  Among the guests for the inauguration were former President Tarja Halonen, Jukka Kola (Rector of the University of Helsinki), Kaarle Hämeri ( Chancellor of the University of Helsinki) , Juhani Damski ( FMI Director General) , Jari Gustafsson ( Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment) and Erja Heikkinen (Science Adviser at the Ministry of Education and Culture), displaying the many connections and large impact of INAR in society: education, research, business. All guests were stressing how INAR is an important platform to understand and po...