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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

"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…

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…

ICOS is coordinating an EU H2020 project proposal on developing greenhouse gas measurements in cities. The call includes at least one pilot city, in which a pilot observatory can be built. We are now seeking this pilot city through an open nomination process. Applications for cities should be…

The flask sampling strategy, first of its kind in the world, helps ICOS to push the high quality of its greenhouse gas measurements even further. The sampling strategy suggests the most cost-effective ways to collect the air samples, urges comparing of the flask sampling results with…

Dr Aki Tsuruta is a senior research scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute located in the Dynamicum building in Helsinki. When Aki started working in 2011, the Integrated Carbon Observation System did not existed yet. Nowadays, ICOS has its headquarters on the ground floor of the same…