Tarfala research station
The Tarfala research station is a field station of Stockholm University. It specializes in glacial and climatological research.Geography
The station lies in the Tarfala Valley in northern Sweden, at an elevation of 1,135 meters. The valley is sometimes hit by katabatic winds, which can generate very high wind speeds. The Swedish record of measured wind speed is from Tarfala research station with 81 m/s on 20 December 1992. Regular glaciological measurements were started in 1946.Gallery
