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The first ever mobile app of the ICOS Science Conference is open now. Participants can use the app to plan their personal conference schedule. The app includes presentation times, headlines, authors and abstracts. Participants can just select their favourite speeches clicking a small star -sign…

The world's oceans soak up more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research. Previous estimates of the movement of carbon between the atmosphere and oceans, known as "flux", have not accounted for temperature differences at the water's surface and a few metres below.…

First published on September 7, 2020. Translations of this text are available in French, German, Finnish, Swedish, Italian.

ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, has enabled a set of studies showing how nature and crops in Europe respond to extremely dry conditions, such as…

Miro Demol is a PhD student jointly supported by the University of Antwerp and the University of Ghent. His research focuses on measuring 3D forest structure and biomass through a modern technique called terrestrial laser scanning. Applications of these kinds of measurements include measuring…

Copernicus is the European Union's Earth Observation Programme coordinated and managed by the European Commission. It offers information services based on satellite Earth Observation and non-space data. This ambitious project is an integral part of implementing the European Green Deal…

Dr. Zhendong Wu is a researcher and scientific programmer specialising in ecosystem modeling. His role at ICOS Carbon Portal includes setting up and running atmospheric footprint models in operational mode for prognostic and analysed meteorology, and connecting the output to the Carbon Portal…

ICOS has published unique datasets providing long-term data on how the carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentration and exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere have developed over the years or in some cases even decades. The data is available on ICOS Carbon Portal.

The data also…

We are pleased to announce that the draft programme and accepted abstracts for the Science Conference 2020 are now available online. Over 200 oral and poster presentations have been accepted and divided into 18 sessions across the three conference days. The programme and book of abstracts…

The ICOS network has made available three new final quality controlled (Level 2) data products. These releases cover all three domains and include observational data from all labelled ICOS stations. Many new stations have got their ICOS label certified, so the ICOS data set…

ICOS ERIC appoints Prof. Dr Sonia Seneviratne to its Scientific Advisory Board, SAB. Dr Seneviratne replaces Dr Markus Reichstein who rotated off from the SAB after years of active membership. This rotation schedule was set up to ensure a balanced exchange of the members over the years. The SAB…