The document discusses the ACTRIS Research Infrastructure, which is a European network for observing aerosols, clouds, and trace gases. It provides over 15 years of atmospheric data through its observing stations, instruments, and data center. The document outlines ACTRIS's plans from 2016-2046 and its goal of establishing sustainable, coordinated long-term atmospheric observations across Europe. It also discusses ACTRIS's data management plan and efforts to harmonize data policies and make data more FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) according to recent guidelines.

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ACTRIS Aerosol Clouds and Trace
Gases Research Infrastructure
Mona, Lucia; Lund Myhre Cathrine, Ewan O’Connor, Laj Paolo,
and Pappalardo Gelsomina

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ACTRIS, the Aerosol, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure, is the
European Research Infrastructure for the observation of Aerosol, Clouds, and Trace
gases.
ACTRIS started in 2011 merging existing networks for establishing a sustainable
network of coordinated long-term atmospheric observations in Europe
ACTRIS is composed of observing stations, exploratory platforms, instruments
calibration centres, and a data centre.
ACTRIS

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ACTRIS is identified on the ESFRI Roadmap 2016 document presented during the
launch event on March 10, 2016.
ACTRIS plans:
Implementation phase 2016-2020
Pre-operational2021-2025
Operational 2026 until to at least 2046
ACTRIS

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Relying on specialized scientific communities technological
developments and observing capabilities are enhanced.
The networking fosters the fast and broad developments.
ACTRIS provides the link and the approach for a sustainable
development
Link with users (scientific, SMEs, society, citizens) drives the
development and dissemination of integration tools to fully
exploit the use of multiple atmospheric techniques at ground-
based stations.
ACTRIS

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ACTRIS
CREATE
EUSAAR
EARLI
NET
CLOUD
NET
Integration
Data Data
Data
Nowadays ACTRIS and its components provides more than 15 years of
aerosol, clouds and trace gases data.

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ACTRIS data

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ACTRIS DMP
Data Management Plan: a document defining
products
Policy
data
variables
Toward harmonization:
 data policy
 levels of products
October 2015

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ACTRIS DMP
3 ACTRIS topical datacenter reflect the different
components
Collection of data
QA and QC
Data collection
Data curation
Policy
Repository
Archiving

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ACTRIS DMP

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ACTRIS DMP

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ACTRIS data differences
Collection timing: once per year, Data Originator
submission, automatic daily
Data format: ascii, netcdf
Data publication: one component DOI on CERA

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ACTRIS data

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Data Policy harmonization
Are the Data Policy documents really different?
Largest difference is the wording
Some other small differences on:
Registration of the user
Link to data originator
 Rule on commercial use of the data
 Co-authorship
 Request of publication notification

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Data Policy harmonization
Data policy almost harmonized
One difference still persists among profiling and
near surface components regarding the need
for registration of the users.

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DMP new release
DMP release needed when new products will be
released and/or M30 ACTRIS2 project
(November 2017)
FAIR guidelines on July 2016
Research data should be findable accessible
interoperable and re-usable

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FAIR criticalities
Interoperability: progresses within the ENVRI+
activities (THREDDS installation and CAS
system for data access)
to be solved: CF definitions
Increase data re-use:
linking database to external portals
PID set-up
QUERY recording

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FAIR criticalities
Data security: DOI with different granularity
DC workshop discussing all these topics
Allocation of resources ???

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The financial support for this activity in the ACTRIS Research
Infrastructure Project by the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement no.
654169 and previously under grant agreement no. 262254 in the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) is gratefully
acknowledged.
This activity is also funded by ENVRIplus project within the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 654182.
Acknowledgments