ICOS - Integrated Carbon Observation System
ICOS is a European research infrastructure providing high-quality European climate data on greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, as well as carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, the land surface and the oceans. SMHI is since 2020 a research partner within ICOS Sweden, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council.
The aim of ICOS is to construct, equip, and operate a network of standardized, long-term, high precision integrated monitoring stations for greenhouse gas concentrations and fluxes. The focus is to better understand the ecosystems and climate through observations and research that can be done based on these results, e.g. climate research.
About the project
Project partners
(within ICOS Sweden): Lund University (host), University of Gothenburg, Uppsala University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Funding
Swedish Research Council
Project duration
2021– 2024
Contacts at SMHI
Madeleine Nilsson & Iréne Wåhlström
Read more about ICOS
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