ICOS has recently submitted an EU H2020 project proposal for developing greenhouse gas measurements in cities. The project is called PAUL, “Pilot Application in Urban Landscapes towards integrated city observatories for greenhouse gases”. It supports the European Green Deal, as cities are…
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What are the cracks of knowledge on the Arctic sea-ice? What part does the sea-ice play in climate models? What makes little green algae inside the ice so important to the whole Arctic?
Recent study published in the Nature Climate Change scientific journal shows that the loss of the Arctic…
Read moreICOS is coordinating an EU H2020 project proposal on developing greenhouse gas measurements in cities. The goal is to demonstrate the ability to integrate complementary measurements systems and methods as well as data.
An open nomination process for a pilot city resulted in seven…
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The managing institutions that operate six different continental-scale ecosystem observing infrastructures, from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, have today expressly committed to develop the first-ever Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI). This GERI is an…
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Ten more greenhouse gas measurement stations have passed the rigorous ICOS quality assurance process for standardised data production. The newly certified stations are located in six out of thirteen ICOS member countries. They include three stations in Germany, two in Belgium, two in France and…
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Jupyter Notebooks are a computational tool that help researchers to create and share documents containing live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. As a web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data, Jupyter have had a surprising rise in…
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The Kingdom of Spain joins the Integrated Carbon Observation System, ICOS. The research infrastructure, which is funded by European countries, measures greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide across the European continent and the adjacent oceans.
Measuring greenhouse gases is important,…
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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…
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"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…
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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…
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