Tuomas Laurila, Juha Hatakka, Timo Mäkelä, Juuso Rainne, Juho Kilkki, Lauri Laakso
Measurements are carried from a cell phone mast at 57 m above ground and 65 m a.s.l., about 200 m from the coast. Analyzers are in the basement of a nearby 1-storey hotel building. At Utö Finnish Meteorological Institute has a weather station and Halo Doppler Lidar. In the westernmost cape there is a marine observatory where sea-atmosphere exchange is measured by micrometeorological methods and sea water is sampled for physical, chemical, and biological monitoring. http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/uto
Finnish Meteorological Institute
At least twice per week from the mainland by a ferry boat.
Reliable (optical fiber) connection to the FMI intranet.
The population on the island is about 50 people. Local emissions include mainly small boats and a ferry to the mainland, which may stay overnight in the harbor. Island of Ahvenanmaa is to the northwest at a distance of 70-120km. There is a town Maarianhamina, 11500 inhabitants, at a distance of 90km. To the northwest in the mainland Finland, is Turku 186000 inhabitants (90km from Utö). The capital of Sweden Stockholm is 200km to west-southwest. In the metropolitan area of Stockholm there are about 2 million people.
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Erik Palménin aukio 1
FI-00560 Helsinki
Finland
Utö is an island on the outskirts of the Archipelago Sea in the Baltic Sea about 80 km southwest from the mainland Finland. The island is about 1 km2 in size, mostly rocky and treeless. Typical vegetation is low and consists of grass and shrubs. The main part of the Baltic Sea is to the south (500km), the Gulf of Finland is to the east (400km). The footprint covers, in addition to the Baltic Sea, most part of Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltic countries.
Beginning in 1980, Finnish Meteorological Institute has monitored air quality and deposition as part of EMEP and HELCOM programmes.
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Received for 2010-2013
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