Tarfala research station

The Tarfala research station (Swedish: Tarfala forskningstation) is a field station of Stockholm University. The station is situated in the Tarfala Valley in northern Sweden. It specializes in glacial, periglacial and climatological research.

It was here at Storglaciären that the first glacier mass balance program was initiated immediately after World War II. This glaciological program is continued to present day and thus constitutes the longest continuous study of this type in the world. In 1976, the first systematic studies on mountain permafrost in Scandinavia were started using Tarfala research station as main research base. Several years of field measurements proved, that Tarfala research station is located in a zone of widespread discontinuous permafrost. Today, Tarfala research station is a well known research place for studies on glaciers, mountain climate, periglacial geomorphology and alpine vegetation.

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