Arctic Research

The Arctic Research Centre (ARC) at Sodankylä and Climate change research group in main office Helsinki form together FMI Arctic Research Division. Due to its high-latitude location ARC provides ideal facilities for versatile observations of arctic low temperature conditions. The environmental effects of human activities are most pronounced in the polar regions. The research work at ARC currently focuses in the polar ozone and arctic snow coverage under the influence of global warming. An additional feature specific for polar regions are auroras which the Helsinki group of Arctic Research division studies. FMI has conducted systematic auroral observations in the Finnish Lapland since late 1950's. See also the "Auroras Now" prediction service. Today observations are made with the MIRACLE network whose data have central role in the FMI's geospace research.

The 3-years EU-FP7 project EURISGIC(European Risk from Geomagnetically Induced Currents) was started on March 1, 2011 For details see the CORDIS summary page. Project-internal documents can be accessed via the password-protected at the FMI Webpage For access, please contact the project leader, Dr. Ari Viljanen (ari.viljanen (at) fmi.fi)