The AMRIT project has been presented in the poster sessions of the Integrated Carbon Observation System Science Conference 2024
Understanding the ocean's role in the carbon cycle is a major objective of scientific research and ocean observing systems (OOS), as the ocean is the main sink for anthropogenic carbon. The processes need to be better understood, and the spatial variability of the source/sink better quantified, so that the budget can be correctly calculated.
ICOS ERIC, an AMRIT partner, and in particular its Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC), is at the heart of this challenge. Laurent Mortier, scientific coordinator of AMRIT, Richard Sanders, director of ICOS-OTC, and Yann-Hervé de Roeck, director of Euro-Argo ERIC, were present at the ICOS 2024 scientific conference held in Versailles last September to present our project and stimulate collaboration in the field of data management for atmospheric, ecosystem and ocean sciences.
Fruitful discussions were held, notably with Niku Kivekäs, senior officer for ERIC ACTRIS operations. ACTRIS, an infrastructure for high-quality observations of short-lived climate forcers, has been set up by integrating several pre-existing infrastructures or projects and has been confronted with issues similar to those that AMRIT aims to resolve for ocean observation.