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Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Norway and Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC), phase 3

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Norway and Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC), phase 3

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) is a European research infrastructure forming an observation system that measure and assess atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations ensuring independent and reliable carbon measurements. Through observations, ICOS provides knowledge on how societies have succeeded in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and how emissions are regionally distributed.

ICOS-Norway is the Norwegian component of ICOS. It delivers standardized and high-quality carbon data from different sites and platforms, including towers for air measurements in southern Norway and at Svalbard, a forest station in south-eastern Norway, and the use of one research ship and two commercial ships in the North Atlantic, the Nordic Seas, and areas around Svalbard. This observation system will be an important tool to verify Norway and EU`s efforts to mitigate climate change.

Data from the various platforms are be integrated and made available to carbon system scientists and various interested parties such as research communities, national agencies, oil and energy companies, and fisheries.

The Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC) is one of four central facilities within ICOS. OTC currently coordinates twenty-nine ocean stations from eight countries monitoring carbon uptake and fluxes in the North Atlantic, Nordic Seas, Baltic, and the Mediterranean Sea.

Contact

Siv Kari Lauvset

Senior Researcher - Bergen

sivk@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 75 33

Project facts

Name

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Norway and Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC), phase 3

Status

Active

Duration

01.01.25 - 31.12.27

Location

Bergen

Total budget

40.000.000 NOK

Project website

https://no.icos-cp.eu/

Research areas

Research group

Research Topics

Funding

Research Council of Norway (RCN)

Prosjekteier

NORCE

Project members

Helene Frigstad
Nicholas Roden
Andrew Luke King
Tor Olav Kristensen
Meike Becker
Jan Ivar Korsbakken
Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie
Ignacio Pisso
Sabine Eckhardt
Nikolaos Evangeliou
Rona Louise Thompson
Kjetil Tørseth
Kjersti Karlsen Tørnkvist
Chris Rene Lunder
Ove Hermansen
Cathrine Lund Myhre
Junbin Zhao
Helge Rainer Meissner
Christine Groot Zwaaftink
Are Olsen
Holger Lange
Stephen Matthew Platt

Samarbeidspartnere

NORCE, Universitetet i Bergen, NILU, NIBIO, Cicero, Norsk Polarinstitutt, NIVA

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