Availability, accessibility, quality and comparability of monitoring data for European forests for use in air pollution and climate change science
Journal article, 2011

Data from existing monitoring programmes such as ICP Forests, ICP Integrated Monitoring and EMEP, as well as from large-scale international projects such as CarboEurope IP and NitroEurope, can be used to answer questions about the impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems and the feedbacks of forest to climate. However, for full use to be made of the available data, a number of questions need to be answered related to the availability, accessibility, quality and comparability of the data. For example, how can these databases be accessed, e.g., freely, over the internet, on request, by authorisation? How should intellectual property rights be protected, while improving access to data? What possibilities exist for harmonisation? Which quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) procedures have been used and for how long? These and other relevant questions are discussed.

Author

N Clarke

The Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)

R Fischer

Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries

W de Vries

Wageningen University and Research

L Lundin

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

D Papale

Tuscia University

T Vesala

University of Helsinki

P Merilä

Metla

G Matteucci

Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean

M Mirtl

Austrian Federal Environmental Agency

David Simpson

Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling

E Paoletti

CNR/IPP

IForest

1971-7458 (ISSN)

Vol. 4 1 162-166

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Ecology

Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.3832/ifor0582-004

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