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Portrait of Alex Vermeulen

Alex Vermeulen

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Portrait of Alex Vermeulen

Opinion: New directions in atmospheric research offered by research infrastructures combined with open and data-intensive science

Author

  • Andreas Petzold
  • Ulrich Bundke
  • A. Hienola
  • Paolo Laj
  • Cathrine Lund Myhre
  • A. Vermeulen
  • A. Adamaki
  • Werner Kutsch
  • Valerie Thouret
  • Damien Boulanger
  • Markus Fiebig
  • Markus Stocker
  • Zhiming Zhao
  • Ari Asmi
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Summary, in English

Acquiring and distributing essential information for understanding global biogeochemical interactions between the atmosphere and ecosystems, and how climate-ecosystem feedback loops may change atmospheric composition in the future is a fundamental pre-requisite for societal resilience in view of climate change. Particularly, the detection of trends and periodicity in the presence of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate-active atmospheric constituents is an important aspect of climate science. Thus, the availability of an easy and fast access to reliable, long-term, and high-quality environmental data is recognized as fundamental for research and for developing environmental prediction and assessment services. In our Opinion Article, we develop the role environmental research infrastructures in Europe (ENVRI RIs) and particularly the atmosphere-centred research infrastructures ACTRIS, IAGOS and ICOS can assume with their capacities for standardised acquisition and reporting of long-term and high-quality observational data, complemented by rich metadata, for the provision of data by open access, and for data interoperability across different research fields including all fields of environmental sciences and beyond. Resulting from these capacities in data collection and provision, we elaborate on the novel research opportunities in atmospheric sciences which evolve from the combination of open-access and interoperable observational data, tools and technologies offered by data-intensive science, and the emerging service ecosystem of the collaboration platform ENVRI-Hub, hosted by the European Open Science Cloud.

Department/s

  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science

Publishing year

2023

Language

Other

Pages

1-39

Publication/Series

EGUsphere

Volume

2023

Document type

Preprint

Publisher

European Geosciences Union

Topic

  • Environmental Sciences
  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Other Engineering and Technologies

Keywords

  • open science
  • FAIR data
  • research infrastructure
  • ENVRI
  • data-driven research

Status

Submitted