Das Projekt "BOREAL - Folgeuntersuchungen des deutschen nationalen Klimaprogramms - Teil Landoberflaechenklimatologie: Untersuchungen des Energiehaushaltes subpolarer Oekosysteme unter Verwendung von Satellitendaten und der GIS-Technik" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Basel, Institut für Meteorologie, Klimatologie und Fernerkundung durchgeführt. These studies are continuing the work, which was carried out within a project of the German National Climate Research Programme of the German Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) - part Landsurface Climatology (1986-1990). In two research areas in a subpolar environment of Northern Sweden satellite data and meteorological models are used to study the energetic processes at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere-interface and to simulate with different scenarios the effect of a change of vegetation types (possible due to a global warming) on the energy budget. Another aspect is to use high-resolution satellite data for environmental monitoring of the subpolar birch forest. One location is near the Abisko Research Station of the Swedish Academy of Natural Sciences, the other is around the Tarfala Glaciological Research Station of the University of Stockholm.