Virtual Access
Virtual Access (VA) means free access to stations’ data and databases. Altogether 25 research stations located in the Arctic and northern forest and alpine areas offer INTERACT Virtual Access by 2023. INTERACT Virtual Access Single Entrypoint is a data portal that allows you to search and access data and information from the Arctic and beyond.
The portal is based on metadata harvesting from several organizations and sites with end points to real data on various topics on e.g. earth sciences and ecosystems. The number of datasets presented in the portal is growing day by day, including both near real-time observation datasets and unique historical, retrospective data digitized and provided for open access.
When using the data retrieved via Virtual Access data portal in publications, please acknowledge the partner/station/database providing the data and INTERACT Virtual Access under EU-H2020 Grant Agreement No.871120.
Visit the new INTERACT VA Single Entrypoint data portal at
https://dataportal.eu-interact.org
Watch the promotional video on INTERACT YouTube channel
Below you can find a listing of the INTERACT partners that offered Virtual Access in INTERACT II (2016-2020), including a description of the data or database available and a link to it.
When using the data retrieved via Virtual Access in publications, please acknowledge the Partner/station/database providing the data and INTERACT Virtual Access under EU-H2020 Grant Agreement No.871120.
| Partner | Keywords | Description of the VA offered | Link to the data/database |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre d’études nordiques (CEN) | climate, ground temperature, ground water, lake ice, photographic data, microbiology, DNA, lemming | CEN studies geosystems and ecosystems (terrestrial, freshwater and coastal) in the changing Arctic. The CEN Network is composed of 9 research stations and over 110 automated climate stations, and extends across a 4000 km gradient of ecozones, from boreal forest to extreme polar desert environments in the Canadian High Arctic. To archive and disseminate environmental data from this network and from other Arctic research and monitoring activities, CEN has established Nordicana D (www.cen.ulaval.ca/nordicanad), a formatted, peer-reviewed, online data publication series. Produced only in electronic form, the data entries can be updated, and derived values (daily, month and annual means) are freely and openly accessible. Each volume is indexed via an assigned Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which provides citation credit to the research group or individual. The volumes are cross-referenced in Polar Data Catalogue (www.polardata.ca), and contain extensive metadata, photographic documentation, and citation details. To date, 28 data series have been published, ranging from 29 years of climate station data. The average weather we would expect over a long period of time (seasons, years, decades). Climate varies from place-to-place across the Earth. Climate is determined by long-term (over at least... station data, to multi-year data from transects of borehole and near-surface ground temperatures, to groundwater monitoring, lake ice photographic data, microbiological DNA reference sequences, and lemming population monitoring data. | Nordicana D |
| Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, Asiaq – Greenland Survey, National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland | bioparameters, climate parameters, geoparameters, marine parameters | Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) is an integrated monitoring and long-term research programme on ecosystems and climate change effects and feedbacks in the Arctic. Data collected via GEM at the stations Zackenberg Research Station, Nuuk-Basic and Arctic Station is freely available and covers more than 3000 variables measured on a continuous basis spanning bio-, climate-, geo-, glacio-, and marine parameters. Metadata describing the data and links to specific manuals are included in the database or at the GEM homepage (www.g-e-m.dk). | GEM database |
| Aurora Research Institute | research projects, metadata, research license information, Northwest Territories | The Aurora Research Institute (ARI) maintains a collection of scientific research license information for studies conducted within the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. ARI has developed the NWT Research Database to make this research licensing data publicly available. This database is a compilation of license information from various processes that have been in place for administering the NWT Scientists Act since 1974. | NWT Research database |
| Natural Resources Institute Finland | fish species, fish population parameters, Lake Oulujärvi, long-term ecological research, short-term ecological research | Kainuu Fisheries Research Station (KFRS) offers over fourty-year-long time series (catch, cpue, size and age of the fish since 1974) of the most commonly caught fish species that have been collected from lake Oulujärvi (surface area 928 km2) situated nearby the KFRS. The data has been processed to include, for example, the annual mean, median, and range of each species. In addition, water temperature and water quality data from the station is available as background information.Kolari Field site of Natural Resource Institute Finland offers access to metadata of long and short term ecological research data concerning boreal forests, sub-arctic flora and fauna and use of polar nature. Long term data consists of timberline studies and phenomenology of Northern Finland. Majority of the data has been processed and is ready for use. A registration is required to access the data. Metadata can be browsed directly at the Radar database. | KFRS database RADAR database |
| Finnish Meteorological Institute | soil, snow, atmosphere, weather, road weather, sounding, radiation, methane, carbon dioxide, ozone | Data available from the Pallas-Sodankylä station can be accessed via local databases and includes: ground weather observations, soundings data, ozone vertical profile, stratospheric water vapour vertical profile, aerosol backscatter vertical profile, solar radiation observations, surface reflectance, reflected radiance (350-2500 nm), temperature, humidity and wind speed profile, soil and snow observations, microwave observations, air chemistry observations, mast and ground measurements (greenhouse gas columns: CO2, CH4, N2O, H2O, other gas columns: CO2, CH4, N2O, H2O, other gas columns: HF, CO, O2, FTS in the near IR region), airborne and deposited radioactivity, external radiation, aerosols, cloud camera, gases (O3, SO2, NO2, CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, H2, CO), nitrate + nitric acid, ammonium + ammonia, heavy metals, mercury (particulate, gaseous), volatile organic compounds, aerosols. | database |
| University of Helsinki | SMEAR II, atmospheric processes, climate parameters, physics, SMEAR I, atmospheric composition and processes, climate variables, physics, chemistry, biology, long term records,chemistry, biology, meteorology, forestry, long-term records | SMEAR II -Hyytiälä Forest Research Station. Smear research stations are to quantify the feedbacks between the atmospheric processes and changing functioning of biosphere in changing climate. Data include wide variety of variables related to the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, meteorology and forestry, many of those spanning as long-term records over several decades.The database of automated measurements offers quality controlled time series with brief explanation of metadata, as well as option to average the variables during the downloading process. Forestry parameters, including the metadata, are available via a separate database. SMEAR I -Värriö Sub-Arctic Research Station data comprises of biological, ecological and ecosystem variables, atmospheric, terrestrial and limnological variables and processes, meteorology etc. | SMEAR database SMEAR I data Meteorological data |
| University of Turku | meteorological data, weather parameters, hydrological parameters, environmental variables | Data from Kevo Subarctic Research institute is available on variety of parameters. Meteorological data from Utsjoki Kevo (since 1962) and Utsjoki Kevojärvi (since 2011) are provided by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Some variables are directly available on station web page. Wider variety of daily weather parameters is also available by direct request from the Kevo station. Finnish Meteorological Institute has opened major part of its meteorological datasets for public use. A much larger set of variables can be found from there by registration. When used, these datasets must be accompanied by information on the original source (FMI). Large set of hydrological (water temperature, water level, discharge, ice breakup, snow depths, frost depth etc.) and other environmental variables are available from the Finnish Environment Institute’s open data service upon registration. This data web service is mainly available in Finnish language. | KEVO database |
| Yugra State University | weather parameters, biological parameters, flora, fauna, fungi, ecological parameters | The data offered includes the Mukhrino weather station database , theYugra State University Biological Collection Database, the Yugra State University Biological Collection (YSU BC) homepage in GBIF, and the Mukhrino Field Station database in DEIMS (Dynamic Ecological Information Management System). Three more databases are available upon request. | MFS database |
| Alfred Wegener Institute | permafrost temperatures, thermal state of permafrost (TSP), active layer depth, Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM), Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P), meteorology, eddy covariance measurements, greenhouse gas fluxes, permafrost soils | The link provided here for INTERACT Virtual Access leads you to Samoylov datasets in PANGAEA and in the database of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P). In the information system PANGAEA, which is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research, you will find datasets starting from 2002 until one year before today. You can filter more than 230 data sets by Data Author, Year of Data Publication, Topic (Research Discipline), Methods and Locations. The links to the GTN-P Database provide permafrost boreholes temperature data at different depths since 2006 and the Seasonal Thaw Depth (Active Layer) data since 2002. The data from the Samoylov observatory are made available for virtual access via the databases on a yearly basis after their release by the Russian authorities and quality check by the responsible scientists. | database |
| Swedish Polar Research Secretariat | research, Abisko, metadata, long-term monitoring parameters | A project database about projects that have taken place at Abisko Research Station, including metadata, is available at INTERACT-GIS on-line system.Monitoring data are available by contacting the station (ans@polar.se). In 2019, such monitoring data will be made available on-line. | INTERACT-GIS database |
| Stockholm University | glaciology, glacier mass balance, snow accumulation, water discharge, water chemistry, NDVI, monitoring | Tarfala Research Station monitors glacier mass balance (seasonal measurements of snow accumulation and ablation on 5 glaciers); automatically recorde weather at 7 sites, measures river water discharge (gauge, sonar) and lake and river water chemistry, and NDVI at one site . Monitoring data can be openly accessed at: http://bolin.su.se/data/tarfala/. Glacier data is reported to World Glacier Monitoring System(http://wgms.ch). Automatic weather stations data is made accessible via satellite link (http://tarfala.insitu.se) | Tarfala monitoring data World Glacier Monitoring System Automatic weather station data |
| ZAMG | cryosphere, permafrost, biology, meteorology, air chemistry, aerosols, snow chemistry, snow deposition | The Sonnblick Observatory monitors data with the focus on cryosphere, permafrost, biology, meteorology, air chemistry, aerosols, snow chemistry and deposition. Observations of meteorological data started in 1886. The Sonnblick Observatory is part of the networks GTS, GAW, GCW, GTN-P, LTER, BSRN, NDACC, ACTRIS, etc., hence the data can be find in different databases. To make it easier for research we are working on a data portal. The Sonnblick data portal will give an overview over all gathered data around the Sonnblick Observatory and allow the download of these data for the scientific use. Supported by INTERACT the data portal will be available in summer 2020. If you need data now and you cannot find them in the world databases, please contact the station manager of the Sonnblick Observatory via the Sonnblick database. | Sonnblick Online data Sonnblick database Sonnblick historical meteorological Data Sonnblick BSRN data Sonnblick radiation data Sonnblick NDACC data Sonnblick Permafrost Sonnblick Greenhous Gases Sonnblick UV data Sonnblick Aerosols Sonnblick Precipitation Chemistry |
| SLU | water chemistry, water discharge, water temperature, physical soil measurements, bedrock, carbon balance, greenhouse gas balance, atmospheric flux, spectral reflectance, atmospheric ozone, hydrology | Svartberget research infrastructure includes multiple continuous monitoring sites. Continuous measurements of stream water chemistry, discharge and water temperature is performed at 16 catchments, ground water chemistry and physical soil and bedrock measurements are performed at several depths spanning from 10 centimetres down to 150 meters. Svartberget also has several installations for atmospheric flux and spectral reflectance measurements, including a 150 meter high tower equipped with sensors along the entire length. The study area includes the most intensively studied mire ecosystem on the northern hemisphere, with the worlds longest uninterrupted time series of carbon and greenhouse gas balance. Additionally, Svartberget has long data series for climate data and the station has a state of the art atmospheric ozone measurement site. Measurements of hydrology, climate, stream and soil water chemistry have been ongoing for over 30 years. | Svartberget data portal |
| University of Oulu | national park, ecology, animal ecology, aquatic ecology, stream ecology, long-term ecological research, climate change, water chemistry, meteorology, snow cover, | Data from Oulanka Research Station consist of a very large number of long-term data series sets on environmental variables. These consist mostly of physical measurements (e.g. timing of freezing and thawing of River Oulankajoki, ground frost and snow depth measurements) and water chemistry data (e.g. rivers, lakes, ponds and streams) but also some biological data sets (e.g. small mammal and stream fish population studies). Data described above would be made available to researchers through VA. Some of the data require quite a bit of work to be extracted into a format that can be used by researchers. Finnish Meteorological Institute has opened major part of its meteorological datasets for public use. A large set of variables from Oulanka Research Station can be found from there by registration (FMI Open Data). | Long-term datasets FMI Open Data |
| University of Innsbruck | cryospheric parameters, atmospheric parameters, geomorphological parameters, ecological parameters, hydrological parameters | A consortium of institutions monitors cryospheric, atmospheric, geomorphological, ecological and hydrological parameters and processes in the vicinity of Station Hintereis with particular attention to the complex topography and climate settings of the Alpine terrain. Data, publications and student theses arising from these studies is shared on a variety of platforms, and details of the available information and how to access it is provided in the Station Hintereis data webpage linked here. | Link to the database. |
| IGSO-PAS | alpine, environment, meteorology, geomorphology, climatology, geoecology, cryology, long-term monitoring, Tatra Mountains., Poland, | The virtual access provided includes meteorological data from M&MKłapa Station, operated by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation, Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as information on previous and current results and publications conducted at the station. | Link to the data. |
| CNR | Atmospheric profile, snow height, radiation budget, albedo, soil and snow temperature, Ny-Ålesund, Climate Change Tower, Kings fjord, water sediments, sea currents, sea temperature, mooring DI, aerosol, atmospheric gas concentration, turbulent fluxes, CO2, CH4, H2O. | Data from CNR Arctic Station Dirigibile Italia, in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard is available for following installations: Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower (CCT), Gruvebadet Aerosol Laboratory (GAL), Mooring Dirigibile Italia (MDI). The VA is provided through the digital infrastructure of the Italian Arctic Data Centre. Measurements of vertical profile within atmospheric boundary and assessment of energy, radiation, mass fluxes and characteristics of the surface are given by CCT infrastructure. It has equipped with slow and fast response sensors, at different height deployed, for measuring the net radiation, the albedo, the meteo and micrometeo parameters, the snow layer parameters and gaseous fluxes (CO2, CH4, H2O). The CCT (35 m agl high) is unique in the Ny-Ålesund area. Aerosol measurements (in air and in snow) are collected at GAL, while marine measurements concerning dynamical, physical and chemical properties of waters of the Kings fjord are continuously recorded by MDI. | Italian Arctic Data Centre |
| TSU | weather, meteorology, glaciology, glacier | The data offered includes the Kajbasovo weather station database, and Aktru weather station (Slops) database as well as the Aktru mountain glacial basin - Malyi (Small) Aktru, Bolshoy (Big) Aktru and Vodopadniy - database. | Kajbasovo database Aktru database |
| NIBIO | biodiversity, genetics, molecular ecology, ecology, tundra, arctic, freshwater, ecosystem, trophic levels, long-term monitoring, national park, climate change, wildlife forensics, met data | NIBIO Svanhovd has a strong focus on molecular ecological studies in the (sub-)arctic ecozones in northern Fennoscandia. Currently, VA includes downloadable genetic data sets of some of our study systems, like brown bear, lynx, and brown trout. Future updates will include: expanding access to genetic and genomic data sets as they become available, link to meteorological data from the meteorological station at NIBIO Svanhovd, monitoring data sets as they become available. If you are interested in data sets that are not yet available on the website, contact cornelya.klutsch@nibio.no to check whether the data are obtainable. | Link to the datasets Met Data from Pasvik Region |
