Last week, a two-day long workshop was held at the Carbon Portal, bringing together people from the ICOS research infrastructure with data management experts from ENVRIplus. The aim was to exchange ideas and knowledge about among other things data and metadata interoperability and provenance…
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Winter 2017 Newsletter highlights include the station labeling, ICOS at UN COP 23, MSA-Atmosphere meeting, ICOS researchers chosen as European Open Data champions, 13th World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, as well as updates on ENVRIplus and RISCAPE EU H2020…
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Concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere surged to a record high in 2016 and concentrations of CO2 are now 145% of pre-industrial levels. These results were recently presented in the 2017 release of the 13th World Meteorological Organization (WMO)…
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Maggie Hellström, data management specialist at ICOS Carbon Portal in Sweden, and Ari Asmi, ENVRIplus director and open data expert at ICOS ERIC in Finland, were recently chosen as two out of 14 European Open Data Champions by SPARC Europe.
SPARC’s (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic…
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Maggie Hellström, data management specialist at ICOS Carbon Portal in Sweden, and Ari Asmi, ENVRIplus director and open data expert at ICOS ERIC in Finland, were recently chosen as two out of 14 European Open Data Champions by SPARC Europe.
SPARC’s (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic…
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ICOS, Integrated Carbon Observation System, announces that its first greenhouse gas measurement stations have been certified for standardized data production. ICOS data reveals the carbon emissions and sinks on European level, which is essential for predicting and mitigating climate change.…
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ICOS is taking part in the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the UNFCCC organized in Bonn (Germany), presided over by the Government of Fiji, on November 6th–17th 2017.
ICOS participation in the COP23 starts on Wednesday, 8th November when the Group on Earth…
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Yesterday morning the prime minister of the German state Sachsen-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff gave an interview in the German radio (Deutschlandfunk, here the interview in German) and made when asked about the coal-fired power plants in this state a striking remark: “Politics cannot ignore physics…
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The Scientific Advisory Group of the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW), with includes currently 3 scientists from ICOS, reports yearly in Greenhouse Gas Bulletin the latest trends and atmospheric burdens of the most influential, long-lived greenhouse gases;…
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The Scientific Advisory Group of WMO GAW (with currently 3 scientists from ICOS and others from e.g. NOAA, Scripps, CSIRO and WDCGG) reports yearly in this Greenhouse Gas Bulletin the latest trends and atmospheric burdens of the most influential, long-lived greenhouse gases; carbon dioxide (CO…
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