ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e107578
Dashboard for the State of the Environment
expand article infoAlex Vermeulen, Dick Schaap§, Angeliki Adamaki, Tjerk Krijger§, Raul Bardaji|, Andreu Fornos|, Ivan Rodero|, Damien Boulanger, Cathrine Myhre#, Richard Rud#, Zois Zogopoulos, Claudio D’Onofrio, Gwenaelle Moncoiffé¤
‡ ICOS ERIC - Carbon Portal, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden§ MARIS, Nootdorp, Netherlands| EMSO ERIC, Rome, Italy¶ Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, CNRS, Toulouse, France# NILU, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, P.O. Box 100, N-2027 Kjeller, Norway¤ British Oceanographic Data Centre, Liverpool L3 5DA, United Kingdom
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Abstract

The Environmental Research Infrastructure (ENVRI) community is a cluster of European research infrastructures focused on the environment and Earth system science. The ENVRI-FAIR project aims to advance the FAIRness of their data and services with emphasis on interoperability and connect the ENVRI community to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In this article, we present a proposal for a science project that will develop and launch a dashboard for environmental indicators as a contribution from the ENVRI cluster to the EOSC platform. The dashboard will provide easy access to environmental data and services from multiple research infrastructures and disciplines and support interdisciplinary Earth system science and societal challenges. The proposal describes the objectives, implementation, impact, and dissemination measures of the project, as well as the partners involved and the target groups that can benefit from the dashboard service. We explain how the dashboard will showcase the usefulness and relevance of the observations provided by the research infrastructures, and how it will engage a larger community of researchers and potential data providers in co-creation processes. We also discuss how the dashboard will make use of existing and new EOSC services and resources, and how it will contribute to several EU initiatives and directives related to the environment and climate change.

Keywords
State of the environment, Environmental indicators, Dashboard, Essential Climate Variables, Atmosphere, Ocean, Ecosystem, Climate change, ENVRI Science Cluster, ENVRI-FAIR, ENVRI-Hub, EOSC Future, Science Projects, EOSC, FAIR data and services, Cross-domain research, Green Deal