ICOS – Marine

Carbon

About

ICOS ERIC is an international organisation aimed at quantifying and understanding the greenhouse gas balance of Europe and neighbouring regions.

The marine element of ICOS provides long-term oceanic observations, which are required to understand the present state and better predict future behaviour of the global carbon cycle and climate relevant gas emissions. The objective is to ensure high quality measurements of greenhouse gas concentrations that are independent, transparent and reliable.

Current Federation

The ICOS Carbon Portal provides observation data from over 130 greenhouse gas measurement stations. Through the SOCAT portal there are more than 7000 trajectories available from from 1957 to 2022 with 37.3 million quality- controlled surface ocean fCO2 measurements. The SOCAT data set uses IOCCP recommended formats for metadata and data reporting.

Function in Blue-Cloud

The ICOS Carbon Portal provides observation data from over 130 greenhouse gas measurement stations. Through the SOCAT portal there are more than 7000 trajectories available from from 1957 to 2022 with 37.3 million quality- controlled surface ocean fCO2 measurements. The SOCAT data set uses IOCCP recommended formats for metadata and data reporting.