The Institute is an impartial research and service organisation with expertise covering a wide range of atmospheric science activities other than gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts.
FMI provides weather forecasts for aviation, traffic, shipping and media as well as private citizens via internet and mobile devices.
[2] In 2009, researchers from VTT published a study assessing the benefits generated by the services offered by the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
[3] Finnish Meteorological Institute makes observations of the atmosphere, sea and space at over 400 stations around Finland.
Their staff members have comprehensive competence within the areas of meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology and engineering.
[9] They worked with Spain and the United States to contribute to the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) on Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity).