AERIS/ICARE – aeris

ICARE: Cloud-Aerosol-Water-Radiation Interactions

Description

The ICARE Data and Services Centre is the result of a specific partnership between the Hauts-de-France region, the CNES, the CNRS and the University of Lille and is one of the 4 data centres of the national data and services infrastructure for the atmosphere AERIS set up in 2014. Its mission is to provide the scientific community with services designed to facilitate the use of “aerosol, cloud, radiation and water cycle in the atmosphere” data, in particular data from Earth observation space missions… Indeed, ICARE makes it possible to exploit the huge volume of data available; to combine the various observation data to derive geophysical parameters and to offer easy on-line access to the products.

In this context, ICARE works in collaboration with international space agencies (CNES, NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, ISRO, etc.) and scientific experts in the field and participates in numerous regional, national and international collaborative projects (GEWEX, CHARMEX, ACTRIS, CCI, GAIA-CLIM, etc.).

Main activities inside AERIS

The main activities carried out by CDS ICARE are :

The collection, processing, storage and dissemination of data;
The development of data visualisation and analysis tools;
The development of operational processing chains;
Assistance to users and provision of material resources.

Key numbers (march 2018)

ICARE operates a large IT system, hosted at the CRI of the University of Lille.

270 consumed products, 700 derived geophysical products
100 million referenced files
126 servers, 1910 computing cores (operational processing, user cluster, services)
~2700 registered users including ~200 for access to the computing cluster
4700 TB of data
11 agents involved in AERIS

Localisation

ICARE is located in the M3 extension building on the Campus of the University of Lille in Villeneuve d’Ascq.

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