Contribution to International Research Networks

Data collected in Ny-Ålesund contribute to a wide range of international scientific networks and observing systems. These networks are essential for understanding global environmental change and rely on high-quality, comparable data from multiple locations worldwide.

Through a process in NySMAC, the Ny-Ålesund community is currently working to improve the overview of the international networks where data from Ny-Ålesund is included. This work is based on information from the Ny-Ålesund GIS system and focuses on making both key reference networks with strict quality and comparability requirements, as well as other important networks, more visible.

An overview of these networks is presented below. This list is not complete jet, but provides insight into the breadth of international network the Ny-Ålesund community contributes to.

• GAW Global Atmosphere Watch  https://community.wmo.int/site/knowledge-hub/programmes-and-initiatives/global-atmosphere-watch-programme-gaw
• GAW-PFR Global Atmosphere Watch Precision Filter Radiometer https://www.pmodwrc.ch/en/world-radiation-center-2/worcc/gaw-pfr/
• BSRN Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) https://bsrn.awi.de/
• GRUAN Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Reference Upper-Air Network  https://www.gruan.org/
• GTN-P Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN‐P https://gtnp.arcticportal.org/ WGMS World Glacier Monitoring Service. WGMS is a service of and GTN-G and GTN-H https://wgms.ch/ CryoNet  Integrated CryoNet Cluster (as part of GCW)  
• CryoNet  Integrated CryoNet Cluster  
• ACTRIS Aerosol, Clouds, and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure https://www.actris.eu/
• AERONET Aerosol Robotic Network https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/index.html
• AGAGE Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/agage/
• AMAP AMAP https://www.amap.no/
• EMEP European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme  
• GAPS Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling Network https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/air-pollution/monitoring-networks-data/global-atmospheric-passive-sampling.html
• GNIP Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation https://www.iaea.org/services/networks/gnip
• ICOS Integrated Carbon Observation System https://www.icos-cp.eu/
• IGETS International Geodynamis and Earth Tide Service http://igets.u-strasbg.fr/
• IGS Interational GNSS Service https://geodesy.science/item/igs/
• ITEX International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) https://www.gvsu.edu/itex/ IVS International
• VLBI Service https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• MIRACLE Magnetometers – Ionospheric Radars- Allsky Cameras Large Experiment  https://space.fmi.fi/MIRACLE/
• NOAA/GML CCGG NOAA/GML CCGG cooperative air sampling network 
• Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases – NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
• SAOZ System of Analysis by Zenithal Observation http://saoz.obs.uvsq.fr/
• USGS GSN GSN – Global Seismographic Network https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/gsn-global-seismographic-network
• AARDDVARK Antarctic-Arctic Radiation-belt dynamic deposition observed by the VLF Atmospheric Research Kartell https://space.physics.otago.ac.nz/aarddvark/