Mission
The IAGOS Data Centre manages all the data acquired and produced in the framework of IAGOS. The Data Centre accepts data submitted by the IAGOS data providers that are in charge of the IAGOS instruments or the production of elaborated data products that are derived products from observational data and external datasets.
The mission of the IAGOS-DC is to:
- Manage all the data submitted by the data providers: from the instruments or elaborated products
- Produce derived or elaborated products
- To provide access to well documented and traceable IAGOS data products, including digital tools for data quality control, analysis, visualisation and research. The data products should be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and the IAGOS-DC work towards fulfilling the FAIR principles. All data collected and produced by IAGOS are linked through the IAGOS Data Portal serving as the access point to all data and related information.
- Provide Near Real Time data to Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
- Provide long-term preservation of the data
Organisation
CNRS (French Public Research Organization) has been designated responsible for the Data Centre by the IAGOS-AISBL and delegated the responsibility to AERIS (French Data and Services Cluster for Atmosphere) and the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) in Toulouse, France. The OMP is composed of several Research Units and one Services Unit which hosts one of the four Data and Services Centres of AERIS. The Data Centre is hosted and managed by the Services Unit. OMP and AERIS are partly funded by CNRS, University Paul Sabatier and Météo-France which are all members of the IAGOS-AISBL.
The IAGOS-DC is hosted at the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) in Toulouse, France and is composed of four persons that are part of the OMP Data Service (SEDOO):
- The IAGOS-DC manager
- One developer in charge of IAGOS data workflow
- One developer in charge of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) developments
- One developer in charge of production of IAGOS elaborated data products
SEDOO is one of the Data and Services Centre of the French Cluster for Atmosphere (AERIS). It includes ten more developers that can be involved in the IAGOS-DC activities as some developments are mutualized.
The IAGOS-DC hardware infrastructure is hosted by the OMP. The IT service of the OMP is in charge of maintaining it.
The Data Centre has operated since 2005 and has always had continuous and substantial support from CNRS. Thanks to the recognition at national and European level, IAGOS gets substantial support through project grants.