On November 20 2015, the ICOS ERIC has been officially established in Brussels by the European Commission, and ICOS is now among the first 12 large EU Research Infrastuctures. This will enable a comprehensive approach to map the European greenhouse gases.
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On the last of July the ObsPack data product GLOBALVIEWplus V1.0 has been released. It has been prepared by Ken Masarie (NOAA) and Ingrid van der Laan-Luijkx (ICOS Carbon Portal/Wageningen University). In this ObsPack data product concentration measurements of CO2 are bundled from 205…
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Trust but verify: Towards a comprehensive Global Observation, Information and Verification System on Greenhouse Gases
Today COP 21 begins and we all hope that it will result accelerating action against climate change. Some people are optimistic, some pessimistic and claim that we have…
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Reading it black on white is just wonderful:
“COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2015/2097 of 26 October 2015 on setting up the Integrated Carbon Observation System European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ICOS ERIC)”
This means that 9 European countries have united to build a…
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Whoever has run a long-distance race knows that the final lap is very special: you see the line and although exhausted from the long way behind, you mobilize all remaining power for the finish. On 1st September we entered the final lap on our long-distance race for ICOS ERIC: the European…
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Dorothee Bakker, Kim Currie, Peter Landschützer, Are Olsen and Christian Rödenbeck on the SOCAT and SOCOM event on 7 September 2015 at the SOLAS Open Science Conference in Kiel, Germany.
Our planet is a blue planet. The oceans cover two thirds of the planet’s surface and play an important…
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A few weeks ago I had the honour to open the kickoff meeting of the cluster project ENVRIplus. In my speech I used game theory to explain cooperation in a competitive world. It was a response to a colleague’s remark that cooperatively seeking for common solutions among or inside research…
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The Finnish Government approved on Thursday, 2nd April, for Finland to send to the European Commission the formal request to set up ICOS ERIC
The application has been sent to the Director General of DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission via Finland’s Permanent…
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“Research Infrastructures of pan-European relevance provide unique opportunities for world-class research and training as well as to stimulate knowledge and technology transfer, in brief for European capacity building.” (ESFRI Roadmap document)
Research Infrastructures that have…
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ICOS RI representatives used this opportunity to present ENVRIplus project which will be launched in May
This year's European Geosciences Union General Assembly has been held in Vienna from 12 to 17 April and it brought together almost 12,000 geoscientists from all over the world into…
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