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Harry Lankreijer

Senior lecturer

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The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) : Standardised observations for science and societies

Author

  • Werner Kutsch
  • Katri Ahlgren
  • Nicola Arriga
  • Meike Becker
  • Christian Brümmer
  • Nina Buchmann
  • Carlo Calfapietra
  • Paolo Cristofanelli
  • Emilio Cuevas
  • Thomas Friborg
  • Bert Gielen
  • Ioannis Gitas
  • Samuel Hammer
  • Susan Hartman
  • László Haszpra
  • Jutta Holst
  • Ivan Janssens
  • Armin Jordan
  • Jiří Kolman
  • Bart Kruijt
  • Harry Lankreijer
  • Dagmar Kubistin
  • Annalea Lohila
  • Dario Papale
  • Stephen Matthew Platt
  • Michel Ramonet
  • Leonard Rivier
  • Marilyn Roland
  • Emmanuel Salmon
  • Richard Sanders
  • Elena Saltikoff
  • Alex Vermeulen
  • Andrew Watson

Summary, in English

To understand, predict and mitigate climate change, it is crucial to have long-term and standardised measurements of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and their fluxes between atmosphere, land and oceans. The Integrated Carbon Observation System, is a distributed European Research Infrastructure which provides high-precision and highly standardised observations from more than 170 stations from three domains: Atmosphere, Ecosystem and Ocean. ICOS covers currently 16 European countries. All ICOS data is made available by the ICOS Carbon Portal, first in near-real time (within 24h when possible), and after further quality control as domain specific annual releases. The data flow follows the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) principles.

ICOS data have shown the importance of sustainable long-term observations to understand inter-annual variations, trends and extreme events. They show climate and antropogenic feedback on the carbon cycle and ecosystem-specific responses to disturbances. ICOS data are very useful for good practise guidelines on maintaining or enhancing ecosystem carbon sinks and, thus, might also be an important tool for monitoring and verifying respective policies. Further societal impact is generated by using ICOS data for verification of fossil fuel emission reductions and guiding cities towards climate neutrality.

Department/s

  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • ICOS Sweden
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Document type

Conference paper: abstract

Topic

  • Climate Research

Conference name

EGU General Assembly

Conference date

2023-04-23 - 2023-04-28

Status

Published

Project

  • Integrated Carbon Observing System - Carbon Portal
  • ICOS Sweden infrastructure upgrade and renewal