scholarly journals EPOS (EUROPEAN PLATE OBSERVATION SYSTEM)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Fernández ◽  
Josep Gallart ◽  
Ramón Carbonell ◽  
Jordi Díaz ◽  
Antonio Villaseñor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Observation System ◽  
European Research ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Priority Project ◽  
European Plate ◽  
Global Research

EPOS (European Plate Observation System) (https://www.epos-ip.org/) is now established as the only European multidisciplinary and global research infrastructure in Earth Sciences. It integrates several hundred national observatories for the observation and measurement of the internal and dynamic structure of the planet, and in particular in Europe, distributed in 25 European countries, including Spain. The EPOS project, included in the 2008 ESFRI Roadmap, has been recognized by ESFRI in 2016 as a priority project for its implementation, because of its strategic relevance in the European Research Area.http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIGeo2017.2017.6615

IAGOS Research Infrastructure for Global-Scale Atmosphere Monitoring by Instrumented Passenger Aircraft

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Petzold ◽  
Valerie Thouret ◽  
Christoph Gerbig ◽  
Andreas Zahn ◽  
Martin Gallagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Water Vapour ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Good Resolution ◽  
European Research ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
High Quality

<p>IAGOS (www.iagos.org) is a European Research Infrastructure using commercial aircraft (Airbus A340, A330, and soon A350) for automatic and routine measurements of atmospheric composition including reactive gases (ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds), greenhouse gases (water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane), aerosols and cloud particles along with essential thermodynamic parameters. The main objective of IAGOS is to provide the most complete set of high-quality essential climate variables (ECV) covering several decades for the long-term monitoring of climate and air quality. The observations are stored in the IAGOS data centre along with added-value products to facilitate the scientific interpretation of the data. IAGOS began as two European projects, MOZAIC and CARIBIC, in the early 1990s. These projects demonstrated that commercial aircraft are ideal platforms for routine atmospheric measurements. IAGOS then evolved as a European Research Infrastructure offering a mature and sustainable organization for the benefits of the scientific community and for the operational services in charge of air quality and climate change issues such as the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Services (CAMS) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). IAGOS is also a contributing network of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).</p> <p>IAGOS provides measurements of numerous chemical compounds which are recorded simultaneously in the critical region of the upper troposphere – lower stratosphere (UTLS) and geographical regions such as Africa and the mid-Pacific which are poorly sampled by other means. The data are used by hundreds of groups worldwide performing data analysis for climatology and trend studies, model evaluation, satellite validation and the study of detailed chemical and physical processes around the tropopause. IAGOS data also play an important role in the re-assessment of the climate impact of aviation.</p> <p>Most important in the context of weather-related research, IAGOS and its predecessor programmes provide long-term observations of water vapour and relative humidity with respect to ice in the UTLS as well as throughout the tropospheric column during climb-out and descending phases around airports, now for more than 25 years. The high quality and very good resolution of IAGOS observations of relative humidity over ice are used to better understand the role of water vapour and of ice-supersaturated air masses in the tropopause region and to improve their representation in numerical weather and climate forecasting models. Furthermore, CAMS is using the water vapour vertical profiles in near real time for the continuous validation of the CAMS atmospheric models. </p>

scholarly journals TOP Research Infrastructures in Hungary 2021 : TOP Research Infrastructures in Hungary and their Embeddedness in the European Research Infrastructure Landscape

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Cooperation ◽  
Excellent Research ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Research Facilities

The publication showcases fifty-two excellent research infrastructures and infrastructure clusters in Hungary, furthermore it introduces five up-and-coming emerging research facilities. The purpose of the publication is, by demonstrating the services and activities of our top-of-the-line research infrastructures to potential international partners, to enhance international research-cooperation.

scholarly journals Biotechnology policy in European countries: An assessment

10.5912/jcb92 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Zechendorf
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
The Uk

For more than 20 years, all major European governments have put biotechnology as a priority on their innovation policy agendas. How did each of the three big countries – France, the UK and Germany – manage their biotechnology policy, and what results have they achieved? A project funded by the European Commission tried to find out by assessing, over the period 1994–2001, the development of the knowledge base, patent activities, technology transfer measures, regulatory policy, industry promotion measure and public opinion. By adding data from other sources, the author presents a dynamic picture of each country's policy and development up to 2003.

Operationelle in-situ Messungen von Luftschadstoffen und Klimagasen im nationalen und internationalen Kontext

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Steinbacher ◽  
Christoph Hueglin ◽  
Stefan Reimann ◽  
Brigitte Buchmann ◽  
Lukas Emmenegger
Keyword(s):  
Trace Gases ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Atmospheric Gases ◽  
Evaluation Programme ◽  
Infrastructure Network

<p>Im Unterschied zu Forschungsinfrastrukturen in anderen Disziplinen, zeichnen sich Forschungsinfrastrukturen für Umweltbeobachtungen in der Regel durch langfristige Messungen zahlreicher Parameter mit verschiedenen Instrumenten an unterschiedlichen Orten aus. Bodengestützte, atmosphärische Beobachtungen von Luftschadstoffen und Klimagasen können unterschiedliche Ziele verfolgen, wie zum Beispiel die Überwachung regulatorischer Massnahmen und die Einhaltung von Grenzwerten, die wissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Variabilitäten und Trends, die Validierung von Modellrechnungen und Satellitenbeobachtungen oder die Früherkennung von neu auftretenden Substanzen. Die Qualitätskontrolle und Qualitätssicherung müssen nicht nur dem dezentralen Charakter der Beobachtungen Rechnung tragen, sondern auch sicherstellen, dass die der Fragestellung angepassten Datenqualitätsziele erreicht werden. Zusätzlich müssen Beobachtungen, die Teil von mehreren Messnetzen und Infrastrukturen sind, verschiedene Kriterien erfüllen, z.B. im Hinblick auf das Normal der Rückführbarkeit, die Präzision, aber auch bezüglich Dokumentation und Bereitstellung der Resultate in Datenbanken.</p> <p>Die Präsentation gibt einen Überblick über die langfristigen Luftqualitätsmessungen in der Schweiz im Rahmen des Nationalen Beobachtungsnetzes für Luftfremdstoffe (NABEL), ihre Einbettung in das European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP), die Kooperation mit den europäischen Forschungsinfrastrukturen ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) und ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure Network), und die Zusammenarbeit in globalen Aktivitäten wie dem Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) zur kontinuierlichen Messung von klimawirksamen und ozonabbauenden Substanzen und dem von der Weltorganisation für Meteorologie (WMO) koordinierten Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Programm.</p>

Security and Trust in a Global Research Infrastructure

2013 ◽  
pp. 1523-1550
Author(s):  
Jens Jensen ◽  
David L. Groep
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
International Collaborations ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Global Research

Modern science increasingly depends on international collaborations. Large instruments are expensive and have to be funded by several countries, and they generate very large volumes of data that must be archived and analysed. Scientific research infrastructures, e-Infrastructures, or cyber infrastructures support these collaborations and many others. In this chapter we look at the issue of trust for such infrastructures, particularly when scaling up from a small one. This growth can be “natural,” as more researchers are added, but can also be dramatic if whole new communities are added, possibly with different requirements. Our focus is on authentication, since for most realistic infrastructures, authentication is the foundation upon which further security is built. Our aim has been to focus on real-life experiences and examples, distilling them into practical advice.

scholarly journals The Human Brain Project: Creating a European Research Infrastructure to Decode the Human Brain

Neuron ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 574-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Amunts ◽  
Christoph Ebell ◽  
Jeff Muller ◽  
Martin Telefont ◽  
Alois Knoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
European Research ◽  
Human Brain Project

Social Media and Emergency Services?

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Reuter ◽  
Thomas Ludwig ◽  
Therese Friberg ◽  
Sylvia Pratzler-Wanczura ◽  
Alexis Gizikis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Emergency Service ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
European Countries ◽  
European Research ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Participation In Research ◽  
Potential Use ◽  
Future Plans

Social media is much just used for private as well as business purposes, obviously, also during emergencies. Emergency services are often confronted with the amount of information from social media and might consider using them – or not using them. This article highlights the perception of emergency services on social media during emergencies. Within their European research project EMERGENT, the authors therefore conducted an interview study with emergency service staff (N=11) from seven European countries and eight different cities. Their results highlight the current and potential use of social media, the emergency service's participation in research on social media as well as current challenges, benefits and future plans.

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