Andreas Petzold from the Department of Global Observation at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research – 8 Troposphere of Forschungszentrum Jülich is a great believer in Research Infrastructures. As well as lecturing at the University of Wuppertal, he coordinates the Research Infrastructure IAGOS and the infrastructure project ENVRI-FAIR.
IAGOS, the In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System delivers a time and spatially resolved multi-component dataset on atmospheric Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) and air pollutants. The data provide information on distribution and long-term changes in the troposphere and lowermost stratosphere, including regular vertical profiles over major cities. IAGOS is unusual as a Research Infrastructure in that the hardware is minimal: the data is collected from 9 commercial passenger aircraft worldwide, each of which makes approximately 500 flights per year. The IAGOS database is used by researchers world-wide to study the changing atmosphere and to validate climate and air quality models. It also feeds into the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and into the European Earth Observation programme Copernicus.
ENVRI, on the other hand, is the community of Research Infrastructures in the environmental field in Europe, covering all aspects of Earth system sciences research. Starting in 2011, ENVRI brought together all the existing Research Infrastructures, collected their governance models and management systems for data and background service provision and created a reference model so that new Research Infrastructures don't have to reinvent the wheel. From 2019 to 2023, ENVRI-FAIR helped the Environmental Research Infrastructures make their data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable through harmonised metadata descriptions, and established the technical preconditions for the successful implementation of virtual, federated machine-to-machine interfaces. The integration of services across Research Infrastructures continues to progress through the ENVRI-Hub portal.
Andreas Petzold from the Department of Global Observation at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research – 8 Troposphere of Forschungszentrum Jülich is a great believer in Research Infrastructures. As well as lecturing at the University of Wuppertal, he coordinates the Research Infrastructure IAGOS and the infrastructure project ENVRI-FAIR.
IAGOS, the In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System delivers a time and spatially resolved multi-component dataset on atmospheric Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) and air pollutants. The data provide information on distribution and long-term changes in the troposphere and lowermost stratosphere, including regular vertical profiles over major cities. IAGOS is unusual as a Research Infrastructure in that the hardware is minimal: the data is collected from 9 commercial passenger aircraft worldwide, each of which makes approximately 500 flights per year. The IAGOS database is used by researchers world-wide to study the changing atmosphere and to validate climate and air quality models. It also feeds into the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and into the European Earth Observation programme Copernicus.
ENVRI, on the other hand, is the community of Research Infrastructures in the environmental field in Europe, covering all aspects of Earth system sciences research. Starting in 2011, ENVRI brought together all the existing Research Infrastructures, collected their governance models and management systems for data and background service provision and created a reference model so that new Research Infrastructures don't have to reinvent the wheel. From 2019 to 2023, ENVRI-FAIR helped the Environmental Research Infrastructures make their data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable through harmonised metadata descriptions, and established the technical preconditions for the successful implementation of virtual, federated machine-to-machine interfaces. The integration of services across Research Infrastructures continues to progress through the ENVRI-Hub portal.