New satellite contributes Arctic weather data

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A new Swedish-led satellite for improving coverage of the Arctic has gained support from enough countries within the European Space Agency (ESA) to receive budgetary approval. Work can now progress on building an initial prototype version of the Arctic Weather Satellite, a polar satellite with …

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Ten years of international collaboration on open source code

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The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and SMHI began working together on open source code for processing satellite data ten years ago. Today, this collaboration – Pytroll – involves more than one hundred experts and developers from around fifteen different countries, and the software has grown …

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Hive

Hive is SMHI's service for collaboration between SMHI and external parties.

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Season’s Greetings from SMHI!

We hope you’ll enjoy this animated card. And perhaps you’ll find out some new interesting facts about snowflakes?

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Algae report number 11, 2019

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The total cell concentrations in the open Skagerrak and in the Kattegat were relatively high. The potentially toxic diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia * dominated at all stations. The coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi was common among the small cells at all stations. The integrated chlorophyll …

 
Type: Report
Author: Marie Johansen
Published: Dec, 2019
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Cruise report from R/V Dana week 34-35, 2019

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The expedition was included within SLU:s International Bottom Trawl Survey and covered the Skagerrak and the Kattegat. Four of SMHIs standard stations, Släggö, Anholt E, Fladen and P2, were visited during the expedition. The first and the last station each day were sampled at standard depth for …

 
Type: Report
Author: Johan Kronsell
Published: Dec, 2019
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Ana

Environmental Engineer and Meteorology and Oceanography Physics, with a PhD in Environmental Sciences.

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Cruise report from R/V Aranda week 45-46, 2019

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The surface temperature was normal for the season and varied between 8-11° C. At the west coast a pycnocline was observed at 10-20 meters and in the Baltic Proper the surface water was well mixed down to 30-40 meters. 
 
The levels of nutrients in the surface water (0-10 m) were low but …

 
Type: Report
Author: Karin Wesslander
Published: Nov, 2019
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PM2.5 and BC in Valle del Cauca and Cali region - Workshop

9th – 11th October 2019
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali

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