Radio physics and environmental diagnostics
Radio, acoustic and optical methods for communication, sounding and diagnostics of the lithosphere, atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere.
About the Institute
Polar Geophysical Institute
A research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences focused on geophysics at high latitudes.
Overview
Researching high-latitude geophysics since 1960
The Polar Geophysical Institute was founded in 1960 as part of the Kola Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Today it is a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
PGI has branches in Murmansk and Apatity. Its observatories and field sites are located on the Kola Peninsula and in Barentsburg on the Svalbard archipelago.
Regular observations include aurorae, cosmic rays, geomagnetic pulsations and atmospheric parameters. The Institute also hosts a World Data Center for Aurora.
- 1960
- year of foundation
- 2
- research branches
- 6
- observatories and field sites
Research
Fundamental research directions
Arctic atmosphere and cosmic rays
Physical and chemical processes in the Arctic atmosphere, climate-related processes, and solar and galactic cosmic rays.
Space weather and planetary environments
Solar-terrestrial relations, the Sun, planets, and the interaction of the external environment with planetary magnetospheres.
High-latitude observations and modelling
Long-term geophysical monitoring, international observation projects and modelling of atmospheric dynamics at multiple scales.