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Lab of the Atmosphere and the Oceans
The Lab of the Atmosphere and the Oceans (LAO) is the technological unit that manages all the processes related to sampling and generating field data. The LAO will manage all of IC3's atmospheric and oceanic sampling sites and devices, it takes care of the storage rooms, the labs for processing samples, the different analytical labs and the calibration and intercalibration of all equipment and procedures.
The LAO is launching the ICOS atmospheric sites, and has currently one Tall Tower located at La Muela, Zaragoza (LMU) and six measuring sites in Catalonia:
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Continuous data sites: CRAM (High Mountain Research Center), ROSES and Natural History Museum of Mataró.
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Flask sampling sites: CREUS (located in Pedres Negres), ELL (located at Llong pond) and BGU (located in Begur).
The LMU Tall Tower is an atmospheric station that contains high precision GHG analyzers and meteo stations at three levels. The flasks sites contain flasks that are sampled (weekly or biweekly) for GHG analysis.
The LAO is made up of a team of scientists with great expertise, working together with laboratories worldwide in order to obtain top quality data via involvement in national and international research projects.
General Objectives:
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To obtain high quality data about the energy budget and energy transfer that impact the climate system.
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Privately funded projects
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Moreno, V. Font, L. Baixeras, C. Garcia-Orellana, J. Bach, J. Grossi, C. Vargas, A.: Effectiveness analysis of filters used with radon detectors under extreme environmental conditions for Long-term exposure. Physics Procedia 80, 113-116, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2015.11.067 (12-12-2015)
Marcé, R., B. Obrador, J.-A. Morguí, J.-Ll. Riera, P. López, and J. Armengol. Carbonate weathering as a driver of CO2 supersaturation in lakes. Nature Geosciences, doi:10.1038/NGEO2341, 2015 (26-01-2015)
Vargas, A., D. Arnold, J. A. Adame, C. Grossi, M. A. Hernández-Ceballos, and J. P. Bolívar (2015), Analysis of the vertical radon structure at the Spanish “El Arenosillo” tower station, J. Environ. Radioact., 139, 1-17, doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.09.018 (01-01-2015)
Rodó, X., Curcoll, R., Robinson, M., Ballester, J., Burns, J.C., Cayan, D.R., Lipkin, W.I., Williams, B.L., Couto-Rodriguez, M., Nakamura, Y., Uehara, R., Tanimoto, H., Morguí, J.-A. (2014). Tropospheric winds from northeastern China carry the etiologic agent of Kawasaki disease from its source to Japan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 111(22), 7952-7957, doi:10.1073/pnas.1400380111 (04-04-2014)
Grossi, C. Vogel, F. R. Morgui, J. A. Curcoll, R. Àgueda, A. Batet, O. Nofuentes, M. Occhipinti, P. Varags, A. Rodò, X., 2014. First estimation of CH4 fluxes using the 222Rn tracer method over the central Iberian Peninsula. Air Pollution XXII, (2014), WIT Press (ISBN:978-1-84564-782-7), 233 (01-01-2014)
Vonk, J. E., Sánchez-García, L., van Dongen, B. E., Alling, V., Kosmach, D., Charkin, A., Semiletov, I. P., Dudarev, O. V., Shakhova, N., Roos, P., Eglinton, T.I., Andersson, A. and Gustafsson, Ö. (2012). Activation of old carbon by erosion of coastal and subsea permafrost in Arctic Siberia. Nature, 489, 137–140. DOI: 10.1038/nature11392 (29-08-2012)
Font, A., Morguí, J.A. and Rodó, X. (2011). Assessing the regional surface influence through Backward Lagrangian Dispersion Models for aircraft CO2 vertical profiles observations in NE Spain. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 4, 1659-1670. DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-1659-2011 (21-02-2011)
Font, A., Morguí, J.-A. and Rodó, X. (2010), Physical atmospheric structure and tropospheric mixing information in vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2 mixing ratios, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D19308, DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014060 (07-10-2010)
Font, A., Morguí, J.A., Curcoll, R., Pouchet, I., Casals, I. and Rodó, X. (2010), Daily carbon surface fluxes in the West Ebre (Ebro) watershed from aircraft profiling on late June 2007, Tellus B, 62(5), 427-440. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.00469.x (28-06-2010)
Peters, W., Krol, M.C., van der Werf, G.R., Houweling, S., Jones, C.D., Hughes, J., Schaefer, K., Masarie, K., Jacobson, A., Miller, J.B., Cho, C.H., Ramonet, M., Schmidt, M., Ciattaglia, L., Apadula, F., Heltai, D., Meinhardt, F., Di Sarra, Piacentino, S., A.G., Sferlazzo, D., Aalto, T., Hatakka, J., Strom, J., Haszpra, L., Meijer, H.A.J., van der Laan, S., Neubert, R.E.M., Jordan, Rodó, X., Morguí, J.-A., A., Vermeulen, A.T., Popa, E., Rozanski, K., Zimnoch, M., Manning, A., Leuenberger, M., Uglietti, Dolman, A.J., C., Ciais, P., Heimann, M., and Tans, P.P. (2010). Seven years of recent European net terrestrial carbon dioxide exchange constrained by atmospheric observations. Global Change Biology, 16 (4), 1317-1337. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02078.x. (29-10-2009)
Clipping for the Nature publication on 29/08/2012
Outreach Publication in Nature
Extensive interview regarding the Nature publication on permafrost thawing and GHG emissions broadcast by Punto Radio (minute 06:16 - 17:26) - Link
Outreach Publication in Nature
Live interview regarding the Nature publication on permafrost thawing and GHG emissions broadcast by Radio Aragón (minute 09:07 - 19:07) - Link
Outreach Publication in Nature
Newsflash regarding the Nature publication on permafrost thawing and GHG emissions broadcast by 8TV - Link
Outreach Publication in Nature
Background report regarding the Nature publication on permafrost thawing and GHG emissions broadcast by TV3 Telenotícies - Link
Publication in Nature
According to Nature, thawing of the Arctic permafrost may cause massive emissions of greenhouse gases - Press Release
Outreach Publication in Nature
Extensive interview regarding the Nature publication on permafrost thawing and GHG emissions provided by Efe News Agency - Link
ClimaDat
Presentation for the Week of the Environment at the natural reserve in the Ebre Delta: 'The Ebre Delta: a climate observation site within the network of ClimaDat' - Link
ClimaDat
'la Caixa' Foundation, IC3 and the Generalitat de Catalunya inaugurate the first climate change observation site of ClimaDat at the Ebre Delta
Comment on a publication
Comment on Sánchez-García, L.,Cato, I. and Gustafsson, Ö. (2012). The sequestration sink of black carbon in the Northern European Shelf - Link
ClimaDat
”la Caixa” Foundation Welfare Projects will provide six Million Euro to the ClimaDat Project over the next five years
Project partners
Network collaboration
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