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UP: Fachverband Umweltphysik
UP 11: Postersession
UP 11.8: Poster
Mittwoch, 19. März 2014, 17:00–18:30, MAG Poster
A Central Facility for Greenhouse Gas Analyses within the ICOS Network (Integrated Carbon Observation System) — Maria Büttner, Michael Hielscher, Stephan Baum, Bert Steinberg, Adam Janoschka, Christian Lütz, Rico Hengst, Markus Eritt, •Daniel Rzesanke, and Armin Jordan — Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, ICOS-Central Flask and Calibration Laboratory, Kahlaische Str. 4, 07745 Jena/Germany
The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) is an European-wide research infrastructure that aims at providing high quality observational data for the long-term monitoring of the European greenhouse gases balance. We are currently building up the Flask and Calibration Laboratory (FCL) in Jena, a central facility of the ICOS research infrastructure. It will be responsible for measurements of CO2, CH4, N2O, CO, H2, SF6 and O2/N2 ratios as well as stable isotope analyses (CO2 and CH4) of flask air samples collected at atmospheric and oceanic observing platforms of the ICOS monitoring network.
The second major task of the FCL is the provision of real air reference standards calibrated relative to the respective WMO calibration scales for the calibration and quality control of continuous measurement systems at the monitoring stations. Furthermore, a relational database management an QC/QA system is being developed in collaboration with colleagues of the ICOS Central Radiocarbon Laboratory at Heidelberg and the Atmospheric Thematic Centre near Paris.
In our contribution we will give an overview of the new institution, its instrumentation and the mode of operation.