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Acknowledgements
The establishment andfirst two years of operation of the
Sornfelli station are part of the research project LINK,
Linking Land and Sea at the Faroe Islands: Mapping and
Understanding North Atlantic Changes (LINK), The
Danish Research Council’s North Atlantic programme
funded LINK. Continued operation of the station
through the research project ‘Measurement of the arctic
climate on the Faroe Islands’ 2001-2003 is funded by
the AMP-V programme of the Danish Environmental
Protection Agency. Cooperation with other North At-
lantic research stations in the SCANNET network is
funded by the EU.
We owe the success of the Sornfelli meteorological
station to the cooperation with several individuals and
institutions, to whom we extend our sincere gratitude.
We thank Egil Rasmussen, LV, who shared his exten-
sive expertise in operating and coordinating meteoro-
logical stations in the Faroc Islands and controlled the
physical and technical installations at Sornfelli. We ap-
preciate the assistance we have received from Major
Smith and many employees at the Flyvestation Thor-
shavn since 1999, also in connection with the mainte-
nance of the station. We thank Anne Marie Norby, LV,
for surveying the Sornfelli plateau, enabling a proper lo-
cation of the station. We also thank our colleagues in the
LINK project and from the Faroese Geological Survey
and the Faroese Museum of Natural History for advice,
constructive discussions and contribution of manpower.
We thank the LINK project manager, Ole Humlum, the
University Courses at Svalbard, for programming the
calculations carried out on the Sornfelli data and for
constructive discussions.
Finally, we thank Poul Hummelshøj, Mike Court-
ney, Lars Christensen and John Hansen, MetSupport,
ApS. for making tliis project come through by helping
us design, test, install, repair, operate and maintain the
Sornfelli meteorological station. Both Poul Hum-
melshøj and Mike Courtney very kindly commented on
this paper. We kindly thank Jan Poulsen and P.H.En-
ckell for constructive reviews of this paper.
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