Quantification of the cold air pool in Kevo valley, Finnish Lapland

• Published in: Weather
• Main Authors: Pepin, Nick, Schaefer, Martin, Riddy, Liam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Kevo; Climate change; Global warming; Northern Finland; Lapland
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/348729/

The ponding of cold air at low elevations is a major feature of the high-latitude climates of the Arctic, wherever low solar angles combine with incised topography. In Finnish Lapland this cold-air accumulation is critical for flora and fauna (Tenow and Nilssen, 1990; Virtanen et al., 1998) since ab...