SMEAR-Agri

SMEAR-Agri measuring station.
SMEAR-Agri (Station for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations) Viikki station is built at Viikki Research Farm (in Helsinki, Finland) on fine textured mineral soil.

The SMEAR- Agri offers an international top-level facilities for research activities, and it provides continuous H2O, CO2, CH4 and N2O flux measurements by eddy covariance and chambers, automated soil measurements (temperature, moisture, electrical conductivity, redox, water table depth), vegetation, and atmospheric measurements of reactive gas concentrations, aerosols and aerosol precursors. All the measurements are conducted year-round over multiple years to decades.

Overview

Service provider: University of Helsinki
Co-ordinates: 60.21984771031003 N, 25.02072049805084 E
Contact info: Laura Alakukku, ; Mari Pihlatie

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Scientific info

Keywords

  • Agroecosystems

Research classification

  • Agricultural sciences
  • Climate Change
  • Environmental sciences
  • Soil science

Relevant research questions

  • The functioning of the soil-crop-atmosphere -continuum
  • Agriculture ecosystem-environment interaction
  • The models and new cultivation methods to reduce environmental loading from fields and to enhance soil carbon sequestration
Installment of soil sensors.
Photo: Miki Sirola
SMEAR-Agri measuring station.
Photo: Miki Sirola
Installment of soil sensors.
Photo: Markku Koskinen
SMEAR-Agri concept is a station for measuring earth-surface-athmosphere relations.
Picture: Nuria Altimir
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