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ICOS Cities explored how live action role play can be a tool in developing data services for city policymakers.

ICOS Cities is an ICOS-coordinated project that develops ways to measure, calculate, model, store and visualise climate related data since 2021. One of the project partners,…

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FLUXES Vol. 4 is out
Cities across Europe are taking climate action to the next level. The new issue of FLUXES reveals how real-time greenhouse gas data is reshaping the path to net zero.

Three pioneering European cities have tested real-time, high-accuracy greenhouse gas emission monitoring to boost their…

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stations in spain switzerland and sweden

The ICOS Curve, a new interactive web service published today, shows the dynamics and trends in CO₂ levels in the atmosphere above Europe. It calculates a monthly median CO₂  concentration for the previous month, and a growth rate for the most recent year. The application also allows…

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picture of ICOS stations side by side

The ICOS network was founded in a little more than a decade ago, but many of its measurement stations have served scientists long before this. Long-term greenhouse gas measurements are needed to analyse both long-term climatic trends and extreme events. 

The ICOS network of…

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Davos station, photo by Matthias Paintner

Data from the ICOS Atmosphere station Davos (CH-Dav) in Switzerland show that the carbon sink of a Norway spruce forest is far from certain in the future. 

A study using data from the ICOS Class 1 Ecosystem station Davos, published earlier this year in Global Change Biology,…

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ICOS Cities Paris

Approximately 70% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions originate from urban areas, making accurate measurement and rigorous understanding of city-level emissions critically important for climate action. Quantifying these emissions is key to answering vital questions, such as tracking…

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The ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre has published the results of the largest intercomparison study of its kind, comparing 27 instruments used for surface ocean pCO₂ measurements. The study provides a comprehensive comparison of the different measurement methods used by ICOS Ocean stations and other…

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ICOS Science Conference 2026 logo

The call for session proposals has now closed. Click here to see all submitted proposals.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal!

ICOS Science Conference, organised every second year by the ICOS community, is a global event open to…

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Picture of the Saclay atmospheric observation station from above in a green landscape

ICOS has published the annual update of the European Obspack, an extensive dataset including atmospheric observations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon monoxide (CO) in Europe.

This dataset, part of the GlobalView …

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An effort led by Marta Galvagno and Dario Papale has successfully upgraded two ICOS Associated Stations in Valle d’Aosta: ICOS station Torgnon grassland (IT-Tor) and ICOS station Torgnon larch forest (IT-TrF). 

Between 2nd-9th August, standard eddy covariance equipment was installed…

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