Infrastructure

MISU has laboratory equipment for chemical analysis and instrument development, and a weather station on the roof of the department building. We also have access to research vessels for data collection at sea, and to high-performance computing systems for demanding climate models.

Michael Tjernström, Professor Emeritus of Boundary layer meteorology at Stockholm University and research leader for the ARTofMELT expedition to the Arctic in 2023, together with Paul Zieger, Professor in Experimental atmospheric sciences at Stockholm University.

On the roof of the Arrhenius laboratory, there is a weather station that measures the following quantities every ten minutes:

  • Atmospheric pressure
  • Dew point
  • Downwelling radiation
  • Horizontal wind speed and direction
  • Precipitation
  • Relative humidity
  • Temperature

We have our own lab and have access to mechanical workshop services.

Atmospheric Physics Lab (AP-lab)

The Atmospheric Physics Lab (AP-lab) at MISU consists of the instrument lab, the vacuum lab, a darkroom and the prototype lab. In the AP-lab we primarily build, test and calibrate various types of optical instruments (ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared light) for measurements in the Earth’s atmosphere, mainly from sounding rockets, but also from satellite, balloon and ground.

Horizontal streaks in purple, red, orange, yellow, orange, red, purple.

First image from MATS satellite of the atmosphere in 2022. This is airglow at heights of around 80–100 km that is emitted by energy-rich oxygen molecules. The picture was taken at infrared wavelengths but the colours have been added during the analysis. Photo: Swedish National Space Agency.

Mechanical workshop

We also have access to mechanical workshop services via the core facility at the Faculty of Science.

Faculty of Science research infrastructure (SU site)

For scientific expeditions at sea, our researchers have been able to use the research vessel R/V Electra in collaboration with the Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre and the icebreaker Oden in collaboration with the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.

R/V Electra 
Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

The Icebreaker Oden 
Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

For demanding computations, we have access to the supercomputer Tetralith, which is managed by NSC (National Supercomputer Centre) at Linköping University.

More about the Tetralith supercomputer

In addition to the infrastructure described above, we also have many collaborations with various institutions and organisations. You can read more about MISU collaborations here:

Collaboration

Last updated: 2026-03-06

Source: MISU

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