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1 GRANTED PROJECTS FOR LAPBIAT (deadline of 15th October 2002) Station Title of the project Origin of User # persons # mandays Period FMI Chemical and physical analyses of radiation fog samples Inst. Atmosph. Phys Prague, Czech Rep. LAPBIAT Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere Water VaporVvalidation Meteolab. Deutschland GmbH Project: LAUTLOSWAVVAP; Validation of the Snow White Radiosondes Röttenbach, Germany UV radiation (climatology) and arctic-alpine tundra Solar and Ozone Observatory Hradec Kralove, Czech Rep. Accurate measurements of atmospheric oxygen concentration variation Univ. East Anglia and aerosol nitrogen isotopic composition to study biosphere-atmosphere Norwich, interactions LAPBIAT Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere Water Vapor Validation German Weather Service Project: LAUTLOSWAVVAP; Validation of Lindenberg method of Tauche, Germany "Standardized Frequencies" LAPBIAT Upper Troposphere LOWER Stratosphere Water Validation Alfred Wegener Inst. For Polar Nov Project: LAUTLOSWAVVAP and Marine Research Feb 2004 Potsdam, Germany Impact of the Ultraviolet Radiation (UV-B) on Ecophysiology of Subarctic Inst. Botany, Krakow 5 Conifers, Shrubs and Herbs Poland Subtotal

2 KEVO Interactions between snow and vegetation in mountain birch and Univ. Utrecht tundra ecosystems The Netherlands Taphonomy of modern Coleoptera and pollen in lacustrine environmen; Inst. Mediterraneen d'ecologie 2 15 June implications for interpreting fossil insect and pollen assemblages in et Paleoecologie quaternary deposits Aix Les Milles, France Insects on Norway spruce (Picea abies) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) at Inst. Forest Ecology their distributional limits in Northern and Central Europe Sturova, Slovak Rep. Population structure and adaptative strategy of high-mountain and Univ. Mons-Hainaut Arctic bumblebees Mons, Belgium Morphological and chemical response on Betula and Vaccinium leaves to Univ. Utrecht, / short- and long-term nitrogen enrichment The Netherlands / Roots of bich seedlings and rooting zone conditions in open patches in the Inst. Landscape Ecology, mid June to forest-alpine tundra ecotone Münster, Germany mid Sept Sediment transfers and mass budget in the Kidesjoki valley, Finnish Lapland Univ. Uppsala, Uppsala Sweden Impact of the Ultraviolet Radiation (UV-B) on Ecophysiology of Subarctic Inst. Botany, Krakow 5 Conifers, Shrubs and Herbs Poland Subtotal

3 KIL Population ecology of subarctic common frogs Univ. Uppsala, Uppsala Sweden Geological controls of vegetation patterns in the Kilpisjärvi-Halti Tallinn Tech. Univ area - revalence to long-time climate change monitoring Tallinn, Estonia Delayed expression of UV-B-induced damage in the common frog, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 2 84 May - July Rana temporaria L Huntingdon, Morphological and ecological research in nordic herpetofauna of Finland Eötvös University 4 Hungary Modern pollen deposition in the boreal coniferous forest zone of the Univ. Maria Curie-Sklodowska 2 Oulu National Park based on moss polsters studies in Lublin, Torun, Poland Subtotal KOLARI Impact of the Ultraviolet Radiation (UV-B) on Ecophysiology of Subarctic Inst. Botany, Krakow Conifers, Shrubs and Herbs Poland Subtotal 5 300

4 OULANKA Comparative reproduction biology of decreasing plant species Estonian Agricultural Univ July - Aug Tartu, Estonia Peatland development and carbon accumulation on tunturis, northern Finland Swedish Univ. Agricultural Sci Umeå, Sweden Modern pollen deposition in the boreal coniferous forest zone of the Univ. Maria Curie-Sklodowska Oulu National Park based on moss polsters studies in Lublin, Torun, Poland Genetic divergence and quantitative variation in male song and female song Univ. Leeds, Leeds preference in a phylogenetic framework in D. montana Streams and riparian zones biocoenosises of Oulanka National Park Univ. Turin, Grugliasko July - Sept 2003 Italy Morphological and ecological research in nordic herpetofauna of Finland Eötvös University Hungary Subtotal

5 SGO Short-term variations of ionospheric F-region, Diurnal variation Inst. Atmospheric Physics of GW activity Prague, Czech Rep. VLF ground observations in Lapland: a tool for advancing non linear Inst. Atmospheric Physics space plasma theory Prague, Czech Rep. Electromagnetic ion-cyclotron emissions in the near-earth space and related Univ. Bergen particle precipitation into the upper atmosphere Norway Ionosphere nitric oxide and auroral precipitation Danish Space Research Inst Jan - March 2003 Denmark Investigating the significance of long-term change in the thermosphere due to British Antarctic Survey anthropogenic forcing Investigations of the causes, structure and evolution of the dayside high- Univ. Wales latitude trough in ionosperic concentration VLF ground observations in Lapland: a tool for advancing non linear space Southampton University plasma theory Subtotal

6 VÄRRIÖ Aerosol fluxes in the subarctic Finland Stocholm University Sweden New condensation particle counters tests in the subarctic conditions Institute of Physics, Vilnius Lithuania Connecting tree growth and gross photosynthetic production: a test of process Univ. East Anglia modelling of tree diameter growth and the influence of climatic variation Norwich, Arctic Aerosol Formation: New particle formation and the role of the National University of Ireland condensation sink Galway, Ireland Aerosol and air ion measurements in the subarctic conditions University of Tartu Estonia Subtotal TOTAL

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