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ICOS RI - a new pan-European research infrastructure Outline

• The European ICOS RI
• ICOS in Denmark
• ICOS in Finland
• ICOS in Norway
• ICOS in Sweden

ICOS history and future

2008 - 2012 2012 - 2015 2015 -

What is ICOS?

Integrated Carbon Observation System

“A pan-European research infrastructure for quantifying and understanding the greenhouse gas balance of the European continent and adjacent regions”

ICOS objectives

• To establish an integrated long-term research

infrastructure to understand the biogeochemical cycles of greenhouse gases (and energy)

• To determine regional GHG fluxes from
• bservations and attribute these to processes
• To enable early detection of climate related

surprises

• To provide regional GHG budgets for policy support
• To provide access and services for data and data

products

A vision for the ICOS network

Estimated network:

• 60 ecosystem stations
• 30 atmospheric station

A vision for the ICOS network

• Principle: eddy covariance systems

measuring turbulent fluxes at the ecosystem level

• New understanding of ecosystem exchange
• f CO2, CH4, N2O, H2O and energy
• Upscaling of processes in time and space

using models and remote sensing assets

• Need representative coverage of

ecosystems / climate / management regimes

• Complementary in situ measurements of

ecosystem properties and carbon pools

Ecosystem stations

• Principle: the atmosphere is a fast but

incomplete mixer of surface sources and sinks

• High accuracy, long-term monitoring of

CO2, CH4, H2O concentrations in boundary layer

• Continuous measurements and flask

sampling

• Atmosphere transport models are used

to “invert” concentrations into sources and sinks in space & time

• Innovative methodologies using tracers

and isotopes help to attribute GHG sources to fossil, oceanic, and terrestrial processes

The knowledge challenge

Atmospheric stations

• The ICOS marine observation

system will consist of approximately 15 major instrumented “ships of

• pportunity” and 15 fixed time series

stations.

• The ships will usually be commercial

ships operating regularly repeated routes, e.g. ferry routes in European shelf and marginal seas, and cargo vessels on open ocean routes.

• The fixed time series will be points in

the ocean at which sustained time series observations are recorded by means of moorings and research ship monitoring.

The knowledge challenge

Ocean stations

Observations constrain models

in space and time!

Synthesis data products

• Current state-of-the-art CO2

flux maps (from Carboscope): ca 100 km resolution, monthly

• With the fully implemented

ICOS network: High resolution (25 km, weekly) greenhouse gas (CO2, methane...) flux maps for all of Europe

ICOS RI organization

National level Operated centrally

• a network built around common thematic centers

ICOS ERIC

(starting spring 2015)

ICOS Head office Helsinki, Finland

• Management of the legal entity ICOS ERIC
• Budget of ICOS RI
• Strategic scientific and technical planning
• Community building, outreach, promotion, training
• Director General of ICOS ERIC + 7-8 staff
• www.icos-infrastructure.eu

ICOS Carbon portal Lund, Sweden

Director + 7-8 staff

ICOS RI components

Head office – Finland & France Carbon Portal – Sweden & the Netherlands Atmospheric Thematic Centre –France & Finland Ecosystem Thematic Centre – Italy, France & Belgium Ocean Thematic Centre – Norway & UK Central Analytical Laboratory – Germany Observation Networks – 16 countries (tentative) ICOS ERIC Contracts

ICOS Denmark components

• 2008-2009: Nationally funded Pre-project (72 k€)
• Identify suitable locations in Denmark
• Identify research opportunities by use of ICOS data
• Provide information for decision on Danish participation in ICOS.
• Funding possibilities:
• National Research Councils
• Ministries
• Private foundations
• Industry sponsors
• Implementation in DK:
• 2 flux stations (1 existing: forest, 1 new: energy crop)
• 2 atmospheric concentration stations (tall towers, existing)
• 1 oceanic station (research vessel)?

Danish ICOS sites (proposed)

Skjern enge

ICOS Finland components

ATM: Class 1: Utö, Hyytiälä Class 2: Puijo, Pallas. Class 1 ECO: Hyytiälä, Sodankylä (forest) Class 2 ECO: Siikaneva, Lompolojänkkä (wetland) Associate ECO: Kuivajärvi (lake) Kaamanen (wetland) Lettosuo (wetland) Värriö (forest) Kenttärova (forest) Helsinki (urban)

MobileLab

402 404 406 408 410 412 414 416 27.2 28.2 1.3 2.3 3.3 4.3 5.3 6.3 7.3 8.3 9.3 ppm

CO2

Picarro-main inlet Picarro-spare inlet Picarro-UH FTIR

1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 27.2 28.2 1.3 2.3 3.3 4.3 5.3 6.3 7.3 8.3 9.3 ppb

CH4

Picarro-main inlet Picarro-spare inlet Picarro-UH FTIR

• Hyytiälä already audited 25.2.-

21.4.

• Next audit at OPE, France 10.6.-

5.8. Preliminary results from Hyytiälä

• CO2, CH4 & CO measured with

MobileLab Picarro & FTIR

• Two inlet lines also compared
• UH Picarro measured CO2 & CH4

Hermanni Aaltonen

ICOS Norway components

Pending application

The Ocean Thematic Centre

ICOS-OTC, Second meeting 22.05.2014

PML

• 6 ecosystem stations:

Subarctic mire - Stordalen Boreal mire - Degerö Pine/Spruce- Svartberget Pine/Spruce– Norunda Spruce – Hyltemossa Agricultural site – Lanna

• 3 atmospheric stations:

North Sweden - Svartberget Central Sweden - Norunda South Sweden – Hyltemossa

• 1 marine station:

Baltic sea - Östergarnsholm

• A “national resource”:

collect ICOS data long-term monitoring serve as ”bases” for other research projects

ICOS Sweden components