Spesific features of high-latitude climate

Research themes

Resarch concentrates on two common phenomena (tykky/snow and ice gathered on trees, and inversion) which in practice are purely known in details. Main questions in the former case are: when and in which kind of climatic conditions tykky is formed, and is there a danger for greater disasters due to warming caused by the greenhouse effect? Snow load is measured once per hour on the eastern water divide area of Finland in co-operation with the Finnish Forest Research Institute. In the latter case duration and amplitude of inversion is registered once per hour year around in the Oulanka-Paanajärvi valley, NE Finland.

Staff

Senior Assistant PhD Leo Koutaniemi (University of Oulu, Department of geography)
Eero Kubin (Finnish Forest Research Institute)
Anna Keskitalo

Research projects

Tykky as a natural phenomenon and hazard for northern boreal forests
Contact persons: Leo Koutaniemi, Eero Kubin and Anna Keskitalo.

Inversion and its modelling in high-latitude climatic conditions
Contact person: Leo Koutaniemi

Main publications

• Koutaniemi, L. & K. Kuusela (2004). Paanajärven laakson lämpöolot (Temperature conditions in the Paanajärvi valley). Terra 116: 2, 77-87.