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The U.K. will join hosting the Ocean Thematic Centre within ICOS, a European research infrastructure measuring greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, land and oceans. Long-term measurement of the seas is important since the oceans take up about one quarter of the carbon dioxide humans release…

ICOS has released an update of its top-quality data on greenhouse gas concentrations and meteorological observations for 22 stations in Europe. The published data, so called ICOS Level 2 data, is the final, quality checked ICOS data set. The data is open and free for everyone to access at the…

ICOS atmosphere Level 2 final quality data, release 2019-1, meteorological data and atmospheric concentrations of CO₂, CH₄, CO and ¹⁴C at 19 stations (49 vertical levels) up to May 2019:

Data search. Product overview page. Data citation:

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Read the latest news from ICOS Carbon Portal, exciting new data has arrived. And please consider to submit an ICOS related abstract to the AGU Fall Meeting!

Dr Richard Sanders has been appointed as the new Director of the ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC), starting in August 2019. Dr Sanders will relocate to Bergen and be employed by the Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE), the co-hosting institute of the OTC as part of the Bjerknes Centre.

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The new Head of Operations of ICOS is Dr Elena Saltikoff. She will start working at the ICOS Head Office gradually in mid-August and full-time from the 1st September onwards.

The position was vacated in March, when Eija Juurola decided to pursue other challenges. In this role, Elena…

ICOS ERIC appoints Dr Ankur Desai its Scientific Advisory Board, SAB. Dr Desai replaces Dr Beverly Law, who rotates off at the same time. The rotation schedule was set up to ensure a balanced exchange of the members over the years. The Scientific Advisory Board provides external advice to ICOS…

The General Assembly has approved the new ICOS Strategy in May. The strategy will guide our operations until 2030ies. It identifies scientific trends that will influence the future development of the ICOS observations and require future investments in initiatives such as city observatories,…

ICOS, Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe, announces that six more stations have passed its demanding standardisation and quality control programme, and meet the high standards of ICOS. After these six new labels, altogether 38 measurement stations have been standardised for…

The ICOS Handbook helps to understand how we operate - how is ICOS organised, what and how we measure, and what is the role of the Thematic Centres and National Networks. The Handbook also describes the technical specifications of stations and the process of becoming a Member. This handbook aims…