greenhouse gases

AirCore

The AirCore is an atmospheric sampler flying under stratospheric balloons. It allows the measurement of the vertical profiles (from the surface up to 30 km of altitude) of atmospheric concentration […]

AirCore

The AirCore is an atmospheric sampler flying under stratospheric balloons. It allows the measurement of the vertical profiles (from the surface up to 30 km of altitude) of atmospheric concentration […]

PANAME

The PANAME (PAris region urbaN Atmospheric observations and models for Multidisciplinary rEsearch) initiative is a coordinating effort involving several ongoing multidisciplinary research projects that aim to gain a better understanding […]

IASI

Developed by CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) in partnership with Eumetsat (EUropean organisation for the exploitation of METeorological SATellites), the IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) instrument was designed for operational meteorology and for monitoring atmospheric chemistry and climate. IASI is a thermal infrared Fourier transform spectrometer that provides radiance spectra and derived atmospheric variables to feed operational weather forecasting centers, the Copernicus Services and the scientific community.

Microcarb

The scientific objectives of the Microcarb mission are to provide the scientific community with the information (vertical CO2 concentration columns) to monitor the surface fluxes of CO2 between land, atmosphere, oceans and vegetation. These objectives are similar to those of the NASA-JPL OCO-2 mission. A particularity of Microcarb is to achieve this objective with a small instrument that can be embarked on a Myriad-type microsatellite platform. If the Microcarb experiment proves to be successful, this could lead to a long-term operational system for continuous monitoring of carbon flows. A constellation would make it possible to achieve higher spatial and temporal resolution for determining the fluxes, which remains a desirable objective.

ICOS – National Observation Service ICOS France Atmosphere (SIFA)

ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) is a European Research Infrastructure for measuring atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and fluxes on ecosystems and the ocean. As the increase in greenhouse gases is the main cause of climate change, the interest of ICOS is to allow, in the long term, the monitoring of their sources and sinks. This monitoring will provide verification of emissions and sinks independent of fossil emission inventories and land use data. The ICOS infrastructure mobilises more than 500 researchers and engineers from 17 European countries; it is a key element of the European Research Infrastructure Roadmap (ESFRI) and constitutes a Very Large Research Instrument (TGIR) of the French national research strategy. The French part of ICOS is coordinated by the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) which depends on CEA, CNRS, UVSQ and INRA.

ECCAD

The main goal of ECCAD (Emissions of atmospheric Compounds and Compilation of Ancillary Data) is to provide scientific and policy users with datasets of surface emissions of atmospheric compounds, and […]

IAGOS

The project IAGOS (In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System) is an European Research Infrastructure (ESFRI Roadmap 2006) conducting global longterm observations of atmospheric composition (reactives and greenhouse gases, aerosols, […]

MAGIC

Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are the two main greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted by human activities. To better understand their concentration and vertical distribution in several key regions and […]