Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research INAR, University of Helsinki, will organize Autumn School "Analysis of Atmosphere-Surface Interactions and Feedbacks" on October 10–21, 2022. This 5 ECTS course is aimed primarily at Master level but also PhD students in atmospheric, biospheric and Earth system sciences. It will be held at Hyytiälä forestry field station … Continue reading INAR Autumn School

The PEEX / Global Observatory online meeting “Towards coherent and coordinated atmospheric observation systems” took place on 7 June 2022. About 35 participants attend the event from different universities/ research institutions/ private companies (from Austria, Belgium, Finland, China, Greece, Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine), including the European Commission RTD (Belgium), international organization such as World Meteorological Organization … Continue reading Towards coherent and coordinated atmospheric observation systems

The PEEX session on “Observation, Modelling and Assessment in the Arctic-Boreal Domain” at the EGU-2022 General Assembly (https://www.egu22.eu; 23-27 May 2022; Vienna, Austria) took place in a combined mode (onsite/online) on 25 May 2022. The session was co-organized with the Digital Belt and Road Program (DBAR). In total 57 different participants from different Universities and … Continue reading Sumup of the PEEX Session at EGU-2022

UArctic Thematic Networks in the Arctic held a meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland in May. Also PEEX, the Arctic-Boreal Hub – thematic network was represented in this meeting. The list of participated thematic networks describes the wide range of topics, which U-Arctic is covering: Herbivory, Arctic in Asia and Asia, Telecommunications and Networking, Arctic Safety … Continue reading UArctic Thematic Networks and UArctic Institutes Leadership Meeting on 13 May 2022 in University of St Andrew, Scotland

The EU Polar Cluster Workshop on Russia Developments took place online on 6 May 2022 with more than 30 participants from different research organizations/ Universities. The meeting aimed at discussions on how the current situation concerning Russia has impacted EU Polar Cluster projects, how to create risk assessments for projects taking into consideration potential of … Continue reading EU Polar Cluster Workshop – Russia Developments

The Online Data Workshop on “Development to the In-situ Component by the Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) and Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) Programmes” took place on 4 May 2022 between Finnish and Chinese colleagues. In total 17 researchers attended the workshop from the University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), Finnish Meteorological … Continue reading Air-CAS – INAR Online Data Workshop

The EU Horizon-2020 project on “Integrated Arctic Observation System (INTAROS; https://intaros.nersc.no) has published summary info-sheets covering integrated Arctic Observation System (iAOS), data catalogue, survey; land-, ocean-, and satellite-based observations; community-based monitoring; modelling and use of observations. The PEEX contribution is also included.Read more: https://intaros.nersc.no/content/info-sheets-project-results

The field course on "Micrometeorology and Hydrology" will take place at the Hyytiälä Forestry Station (Finland) during 29 Aug - 2 Sep 2022. This field course covers cover several aspects related to methods for measuring biosphere-atmosphere exchange of energy and gases (eddy covariance and chamber method), methods for hydrological measurements in lakes as well as … Continue reading Field course in Micrometeorology and Hydrology

International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) co-organizes the BRICS Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development  in support of the 14th BRICS Summit on April 26 – 27, 2022. CBAS is one of the main PEEX collaborators. The Forum will focus on five themes including Big Data in Support of Food Security and … Continue reading Academician Markku Kulmala will give a talk at the BRICS Forum

The "Big Earth Data Center" was established on a basis of the Big Earth Data Science Engineering Project (CASEarth; https://sdg.casearth.cn/en), and it is administered by the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS; http://www.cbas.ac.cn/en) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The CBAS aims to harnesses Big Earth Data to serve … Continue reading Big Earth Data Center – Data Sharing and Service Portal

Summer Course on “Formation and growth of atmospheric aerosols” will be organized on 8-19 August, 2022 at the Hyytiälä Forestry Field station in Southern Finland. The application period for preliminary registration ends on 2nd of May. Apply here: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/117450/lomake.html. Read more in Course announcement (pdf).

PEEX paper titled  "Overview: Recent advances in the understanding of the northern Eurasian environments and of the urban air quality in China – a Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) programme perspective" just published in ACP. Read more: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/4413/2022/acp-22-4413-2022.html

The Online Meeting of the Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) and Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) programmes on “Coordinated, comprehensive, long-term in situ component of land-atmosphere measurements for complementing the space borne Earth Observation” took place on 31 March 2022 between colleagues from the International Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) / Digital Belt … Continue reading PEEX and Digital Belt and Road Programmes’ collaboration meeting

New article on “Arctic observations and sustainable development goals – Contributions and examples from ERA-PLANET iCUPE data” published in Environmental Science & Policy. Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments (iCUPE) is the project coordinated by INAR University of Helsinki. Read the article

The Scientific Symposium "The Cold is Getting Hot: From Arctic to Antarctic" was organized in Monaco on 24-25.Feb.2022. The symposium gathered together scientist interested in the Arctic and Antarctic research and future research questions. The representatives of the convening partners of the symposium and the new initiative (Oceanographic Institute, Prince Albert I of Monaco Foundation, … Continue reading Scientific Symposium “The Cold is Getting Hot: From Arctic to Antarctic”