ICOS Head Office is seeking a new Project Controller. The Administration Unit is carrying out the administrative and financial management of the ICOS research infrastructure, contract management and the procurement as well as financial management of the externally funded projects. The unit also…
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This year marks ten years since ICOS became a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). To celebrate this milestone, a week of events will take place from 25-27 November 2025 at the University of Helsinki Main Building, Finland.
The programme includes an Info Day open to…
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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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Three pioneering European cities have tested real-time, high-accuracy greenhouse gas emission monitoring to boost their…
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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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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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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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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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