Wildfire SAV factsheet

This is one of the wildlife fascets

This is one of the factsheet series with key messages from Arctic PASSION. The series will be continued and new factsheets will be announced here. All factsheets can be found on Zenodo.

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Wildfire Sav Workshop September 25 -27,2023

Wildfire Sav

The IBA Arctic Wildfire Preparedness project (funded by the Finnish Foreign Ministry and supported by Arctic PASSION) has organized the next Wildfires Shared Arctic Variable workshop, to be hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Inari, Finland from September 25th-27th, 2023.  The main goal of the workshop is to define observing, data system and decision-making requirements for the candidate…

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Work On The Shared Arctic Variable On Permafrost – Living On Frozen Ground Continues

Ilkka Matero in front of the Svalbard Science Centre

Ilkka Matero from Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) presented Arctic PASSION’s progress on co-development of the Shared Arctic Variable (SAV) on permafrost in the workshop on “Longyearbyen permafrost activities” in March 15-16, 2023. Discussions in this workshop helped to identify new perspectives to gathering permafrost-related knowledge from different communities in Svalbard, and to initiate…

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International Workshop On Preparedness For Arctic Wildfires

A session on SAVs led by Dr. Heidi Sevestre

Shared Arctic Variables (SAVs) are co-defined taking into account global, regional, indigenous and local voices and interests, hence the ”shared” in their name. Ideally the point is to share knowledge and identify gaps and needs, from all mentioned perspectives, to better our understanding of variety of Arctic themes ranging from wildfires to sea ice and…

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