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EGU General Assembly 2021, traditionally held each spring in Vienna, Austria, will take place entirely online due to the continuing risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions on international travel. We at ICOS Head Office very much regret yet another missed…

"ICOS is a great organisation. The data sets they provide are a great asset for my PhD project,” says Saqr Munassar. The PhD student works at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry located in Jena, a small city in the Eastern part of Germany. “Jena is located in a very nice terrain because…

In future, emissions as well as carbon sinks over the African continent can be detected with more certainty. According to new research, quality of greenhouse gas measurements in Africa would benefit from atmospheric tall-tower stations spread over the continent with a focus on observations near…

ICOS is coordinating an EU H2020 project proposal on developing greenhouse gas measurements in cities. The call includes at least one pilot city, in which a pilot observatory can be built. We are now seeking this pilot city through an open nomination process. Applications for cities should be…

The flask sampling strategy, first of its kind in the world, helps ICOS to push the high quality of its greenhouse gas measurements even further. The sampling strategy suggests the most cost-effective ways to collect the air samples, urges comparing of the flask sampling results with…

Dr Aki Tsuruta is a senior research scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute located in the Dynamicum building in Helsinki. When Aki started working in 2011, the Integrated Carbon Observation System did not existed yet. Nowadays, ICOS has its headquarters on the ground floor of the same…

ICOS has a strong observational network producing reliable, high quality data. It is well positioned in the European Research Area and is the European pillar of a global information system on greenhouse gases. Thus, ICOS cooperates with other research infrastructures and global institutions -…

The ICOS ecosystem station Loobos is situated in the middle of the Netherlands, about 70km east of Amsterdam. The area used to be heavily cultivated and was eventually invaded by sand, leading to planting of pine trees on sand dunes in the beginning of the 20th …

Thank you to everyone who participated or contributed to the 4th ICOS Science Conference last week!

For the first time the 3-day conference was organised entirely virtually – we created a special conference platform to facilitate networking and interaction between the speakers, poster…

Today is the day we have all been waiting for – the beginning of the 4th ICOS Science Conference!

For the first time the 3-day conference is organised entirelly virtually – we have created a special conference platform to facilitate networking and interaction between the speakers,…