National Facilities
ACTRIS CiGas Community Workshop 2024: Advancing Collaboration and Data Excellence
Matera, Italy – November 7, 2024
The ACTRIS CiGas Community Workshop 2024, held during the ACTRIS week 2024 in Matera, Italy, brought together representative from the National Facilities of the ACTRIS Centre for Reactive Trace Gases In Situ Measurements (CiGas) and CiGas unit heads. This hybrid event, accessible both in-person and online, provided an opportunity to share updates, foster collaboration, and advance data management practices in the CiGas community.
With the ever-growing importance of high-quality atmospheric data in addressing global environmental challenges, this workshop provided a platform for participants to share updates, exchange ideas, and discuss the implementation of methodologies.
Attendees explored strategies to enhance the reliability and accessibility of observational data, with a strong focus on fostering transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration within the atmospheric research community.
The program featured a lineup of speakers and sessions, covering topics from data portal advancements to instrument auditing and database development.
These discussions underscored the community's collective commitment to advancing data quality standards and ensuring the utility of atmospheric observations in scientific and policy contexts.
Contributions
Ralf Tillmann/Thérèse Salameh: Introduction
Unit heads: Activity/implementation update 2024
Katrin Seemeyer: Labelling status
Ralf Tillmann: Audit procedure and plan: RR (stability results)
Roman Romany (online), Ralf Tillmann: Instrument database - Status, further development
Robert Wegener/Max Adam/Thérèse Salameh/Stefan Reimann: NRT data submission and vision
Yong Lin/Markus Fiebig (both online): Data submission status and selected functions of the data portal
Nina Sarnela: Science talk: CIMS intercomparison, Hyytiälä
Ralf Tillmann: CiGas data coverage requirements
Postponed: Stefan Reimann (online)/Zoé Le Bras/Robert Wegener: Application of Data QA/QC tools
Postponed: Stefan Reimann/Anja Claude/Max Adam/Robert Wegener/Yong Lin/Thérèse Salameh/Robert Holla/Zoé Le Bras: Data flagging workshop for VOC and NOx
• What to flag
• How to flag (technical part)
Minutes