Snow depth science

Perhaps it doesn’t feel very warm now as you visit in the winter, but the Arctic is warming two to four times the rate of the lower latitudes, making Abisko is a really important place to study climate change.

There’s a scientific research station in Abisko, between the tourist station and the village. The research station was established in 1913, and, because scientists have been recording data on things like snow depth, precipitation, temperature and wind since the station first opened, we’ve got a rare opportunity to see how Arctic weather and climate has changed over the past century.

Image: Josefine Walz