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ICOS status report, Oct 2007

ICOS status report, Oct 2007. The current Carboeurope atmospheric network. Small network (FP-5). Stars = vertical profiles Blue circles = continuous observatories Yellow diamonds = tall tower observatories. Larger network (FP-6). The current Carboeurope Ecosystem network.

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ICOS status report, Oct 2007

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  1. ICOS status report, Oct 2007

  2. The current Carboeurope atmospheric network Small network (FP-5) Stars = vertical profiles Blue circles = continuous observatories Yellow diamonds = tall tower observatories Larger network (FP-6)

  3. The current Carboeurope Ecosystem network 17 Clusters of sites (different land uses/covers) 100 sites (51 sites for 5 years) Main and associated sites

  4. Council of Scientific Steering Institutions Scientific Users Inventories, Assessments Gas analysis Data Calibration Data Quality control Training Instrument upgrades Quality control Training Instrument upgrades Atmospheric Observation Network Ecosystem Observation Network Global Observation Networks Elements ICOS, the 2005 vision ICOS Centre Data Centre ‚Carbon Portal‘ Atmospheric Co-ordination Centre Gas Standards Ecosystem Co-ordination Centre

  5. What has been done…[Oct 2006] Oct 2006

  6. For the first time, ecosystem and atmospheric observations will be integrated in a world class infrastructure

  7. What has been done…[Oct 2007] • Invitation by EU to start the Preparatory Phase of ICOS for 2008-2012, with seed funding for: • Selection of operational parameters • Selection of sites using network design (≈30 atmosphere ≈ 30 ecosystems) • Legal and economic organization • National lobbying and fund raising • Targeted research on new automatic sensors • Proposal submitted in May 2007 • Project accepted in Sep 2007 • Preparatory Phase begins in March 2008 • Start round-table negociations in 2008 for building the infrastructure after 2011

  8. Month 12 : User survey and requirement, data providers specifications, data handling strategy (D4.1, D6.1, D4.1) Month 36 : Obtain agreement on legal status & governance (deliv 2.3) Month 36: Expenditure and ressource plan (business plan) approved (deliv 3.5) Month 48 funding commitments endorsed 2012-2031 (deliv 8.7) Pre-ICOS design studies 2001-2007 Observing system operational 2016-2031 Preparatory Phase 2008-2011 Construction 2012-2015 Carboeurope-IP Other research projects National networks Month 48: List of main observing sites (network design) and their implementation plan Implementation Plan to build the facilities (deliv 5.2) Month 30 : Start demonstration Experiment with few sites (deliv 5.2, 6.5, 6.6) Month 24: Select atmospheric and ecosystem sensors after testing (deliv 5.1) Month 24 Decision on locations of: Atmospheric thematic Center, Ecosystem thematic center, Central analytical lab (deliv 5.1)

  9. Partnership with CarboEurope • Each Carboeurope PIs was contacted to organize a National Contact for ICOS in each country, with official endorsement from their Research Councils • National Contacts with official support from : • Belgium - U. Antwerpen • Czech republic - ISBE • Denmark - RISEO • Finland - U. Helsinki • France - CEA LSCE • Germany - MPI-BGC , U. Heidelberg • Italy - U. Tuscia • The Netherlands - V.U. Amsterdam • Sweden - U. LUND • Spain - CEAM • UK- U. Edimburgh • Possibility to include additional contact points • ICOS will not pay for the observation networks before 2012. Problem is identified ; discussions are underway to solve it

  10. Link to other projects and initiatives • Strong interest from CARBO-OCEAN project to evolve their systematic observation components into ICOS • Link of pre-ICOS data to inverse modeling and ecosystem fluxes diagnostic initiatives (see ‘carbon tracker’ talk)

  11. ICOS Central facilities Central Cordination Office Carbon Portal (data centre) Fossil fuel emission inventories Biomass and soil carbon inventories Data from relevant research projects Data from US, Japan networks Scientific Users, Carbon accounting, Operational users, Assessments, International programs, (WMO, GEOSS) Council of Scientific Steering Institutions External Advisory Board Central Analytical Laboratory Ecosystem Thematic Centre Atmospheric Thematic Centre Ocean Thematic Centre Quality control Training Instrument upgrades Data Data Calibration External QC Data Ecosystem Observation Network Atmospheric Observation Network Ocean ships and stations Global Observation Networks ICOS, the 2012 vision

  12. http://icos-infrastructure.ipsl.jussieu.fr

  13. Forthcoming satellite instruments NASA OCO Expected uncertainty reduction provided by OCO for the estimation of CO2 fluxes 1-sig(post)/sig(prior) Chevallier et al., 2007

  14. Linking surface networks to upper air and space observations Satellite 0 - ~ 100km OCO GOSAT 100 Stratosphere 10 Aircraft (0-20km) Free Troposphere 1 CO2 column density from space & ground altitude (km) Tall tower (~500m) Boundary layer 0.1 0.01 Surface air sampling FTIR : GEOMON + IMECC

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