Research Infrastructures
Research Infrastructures
Research Infrastructures (RIs) are frameworks that provide resources and services shaped around common strategies, methodologies and ambitions to support research and foster innovation. An ERIC is a designation for European Research Infrastructure Consortium. TRICUSO is built on a core of three important marine RI-ERICs. These RIs will make distinctive contributions to the project and will come together to collaborate on the important task of determining how the blueprint for Southern Ocean observation can be implemented within the context of the WMO G3W and the European RI concept.
Integrated Carbon Observation System, (ICOS ERIC), provides standardised and open data from close to 180 measurement stations across 16 European countries. The stations observe greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere as well as carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, the land surface and the oceans. Organised in three domains: atmosphere, ecosystem and ocean, the ICOS community consists of more than 500 scientists in both its current member and observer countries and beyond. TRICUSO is led by members of the Norwegian Node of the ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre via NORCE.
European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC) was established in 2013 to advance fundamental and applied marine biology and ecology research while promoting the sustainable blue economy. This is achieved by enabling access to services, facilities and technology platforms in more than 80 marine stations in 10 European countries in support of robust, cost-effective and efficient marine research. EMBRC-ERIC will help coordinate the European planning exercise undertaken within TRICUSO.
Euro-Argo ERIC enables active coordination of the European contribution to the International Argo programme by operating approximately 800 floats, providing enhanced coverage in the European regional seas, and implementing the new phases of Argo, with extensions towards biogeochemistry, greater depths and high latitudes. In TRICUSO, Euro-Argo ERIC will serve as a focal point for the International Argo programme, and will contribute toward the design of a new methodology to construct Southern Ocean surface pCO2 fields from observations, and defining the optimal autonomous float network to reduce uncertainty in estimates of CO2 flux.
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