Nanotechnology Now Our NanoNews Digest Sponsors Home > Press > Arctic warming and diminishing sea ice are influencing the atmosphere: Researchers of the University of Helsinki have resolved for the first time, how the environment affects the formation of nanoparticles in the Arctic. The results give additional insight into the future of melt Measurements in Northern Greenland CREDIT Nina Sarnela Abstract: The researchers of the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth system research at the University of Helsinki have investigated how atmospheric particles are formed in the Arctic. Until recent studies, the molecular processes of particle formation in the high Arctic remained a mystery.