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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Developer of systems related to ACTRIS and EBAS

Responsibility and function:

Work on tasks in ongoing projects, follow up work with implementation and operation of EBAS and ACTRIS.

Responsible for development of the ACTRIS/EBAS statistics API and involved in implementation of new services and tools related to EBAS and ACTRIS Data Centre.

Goal – short term 

• Improve the EBAS web GitLab repository

• Finish the EBAS/ACTRIS statistics API

Be available for clarifications and feedback

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Roles at the NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data:

• EBAS data curation, data flow, and quality control
• Contributing to the development, improvement, and testing of databases, tools, and services for atmospheric data

Responsibilities:

• Data curation and quality control of atmospheric data in EBAS
• Development and testing of tools and routines for data flow and databases
• User support and liaison with data submitters and data users

Contribution to data analysis, visualization, and improved data accessibility

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Helene Muri is a Senior Scientist at NILU, and Adjunct Senior Researcher at NTNU's Department of Energy and Process Engineering.

Muri works in climate and environmental research, with a particular focus on  carbon dioxide removal, solar radiation modification (geoengineering), and quantification of emissions and emission reductions in e.g. the transport sector. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to the IPCC's sixth assessment report in Working Groups 1 and 3. She chairs the European Marine Board Working Group on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and has contributed to updates to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Muri is also an active research communicator with over 250 media contributions, including interviews with CNN, BBC and NRK, as well as op-eds in Aftenposten and Dagens Næringsliv.

She graduated from The University of Reading with a BSc (Hons) in Meteorology and earned a DPhil (PhD) in Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics from The University of Oxford, UK, in 2009.

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Dr Ekaterina Vorobeva works as a postdoctoral researcher at NILU since January 2024. Her project is a part of the Copernicus Climate Change Service Evolution (CERISE) project that aims to enhance the quality of the C3S reanalysis and seasonal forecast portfolio. In her postdoctoral research, Ekaterina will analyze snow forecasts produced by several leading meteorological centers in Europe and discuss the role of snow in land-atmosphere coupling.

Ekaterina holds a PhD degree from the Norwegian university of science and technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. Her PhD project had a focus on utilizing ground-based observations of low-frequency sound waves (infrasound) to probe the dynamics of the middle atmosphere. A particular emphasis was put on studying gravity waves activity and the stratospheric polar vortex.

Ekaterina’s main research interests include but are not limited to (i) atmospheric dynamics and chemistry, (ii) middle atmosphere, (iii) remote sensing, (iv) atmospheric modelling.

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Dr Johannes Kaiser started working at NILU’s Department for Atmosphere and Climate as a senior scientist in 2023. He has over 25 years of experience with satellite-based remote sensing of fires and atmospheric composition, as well as data assimilation, inversion and climate monitoring.

Kaiser has been the lead developer of the Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) during 2007-2019 and from 2022 onwards. During his career, he has also built a Research Group on fire emissions at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz, Germany. He managed the operational activities of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) for the German national weather service (DWD) and run the scientific consultancy "SatFire Kaiser".

He founded the Interdisciplinary Biomass Burning Activity (IBBI) for IGAC, WMO and iLEAPS in 2012, and he is currently a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of for IGAC Global Emissions Initiative (GEIA). He has also worked for ECMWF, King's College London and the Universities of Zurich and Bremen.

Kaiser has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 45 on Scopus. He has a PhD in Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a Diploma (equiv. MSc) in Astrophysics from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Coordinator for all ACTRIS DC administrative operations

Responsibility

• Project leader for ACTRIS spin off projects e.g. ENVRI-HUB NEXT (ENVRI-Hub NEXT Project – ENVRI Community) and POLARIN (POLARIN – Polar Research Infrastructure Network)
• Coordinate ACTRIS DC administrative operations: like annual reporting (cost and activity), annual plans, organising board meetings
• Manage and contribute to ACTRIS spin off projects
• Project leader in larger/many projects; and responsible for the roles that follow; delegate, maintain an overview
• Contribute to EVDC and EEA COINS projects, also strengthen link to ACTRIS DC

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My research interest is quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks on regional and global scales. For this, I use a combination of ground- and satellite-based measurements and transport models (FLEXPART and LPDM) with Bayesian inversion techniques.
I am also looking into the effect of changes in sources and sinks on the large climate system.

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Tech Lead at Centre for Atmospheric Data with overview of our operational technologies and strategy for development

Responsibility

• Software developer, backend, some frontend, various use and applications, strong expertise on (cyber) security systems
• Overview of our operational technologies, propose adjustments and new technologies when needed, and coordinate within the centre. This includes mapping and developing better procedures for operational security
• Involved in all back-end programming and architecture for EBAS and ACTRIS, supporting key developers
• Expert user of Airflow in support of the team and NILU

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Contact point for ACTRIS Virtual Research Environment – VRE at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

Responsibility

• Perform a wide range of varied tasks; project leader, data manager, data engineer, contribute to system development – front-end
• Contact point for EBAS and ACTRIS data use and access
• Development of ACTRIS VRE and Analysis and Visualization of data
• Organisation and plan for higher level data products from EBAS
• Lead the work with IRISCC at NILU, and the virtual access activity within the project
• Extensive contact with users, training in use of data
• EBAS data curation and QA/QC responsible for various aerosol variables

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Dr. Leonie Bernet obtained a PhD in Climate Sciences from the University of Bern, Switzerland.

She is an expert in trend analyses of ozone and water vapour, using measurements from ground-based remote sensing techniques. Her work focuses primarily on long-term changes of stratospheric ozone at mid-latitudes and in the Arctic.

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Monitor operational web services for data bases

Responsibility

• Software developer for a wide range of applications and projects, operation of EBAS data flow and EVDC
• Contribute to data visualization across the entire centre
• EBAS data curation and QA/QC responsible for a range of aerosol components
• Responsible for operations and maintenance of services and web solutions
• Contribute to linking ground based observations in EVDC and EBAS

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• EBAS and EVDC data management coordinator

Responsibility

• Responsible for EBAS data workflow from data producers to ingestion in the data base: Call for data, data curation, templates with close contact with data procedures
• Responsible for EVDC data management and operations: EVDC Create and develop templates and GEOMS tool, generate monitoring plots, user support
• ACTRIS DC in-situ contact person in the ACTRIS Topical Centre CiGAS
• EBAS data curation and QAQC responsible for most trace gas components and a selected aerosol components
• Very active in training and support in data submission and QAQC within ACTRIS, EBAS and EVDC

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Dr. Karl Espen Yttri is a senior scientist at NILU with a Ph.D. in aerosol science. He has extensive expertise in atmospheric aerosols and their chemical composition across diverse environments, ranging from urban areas to the pristine Arctic and Antarctic.

His primary focus is on carbonaceous aerosols, using both on-line and off-line methodologies for the source apportionment of anthropogenic and natural aerosol sources. This includes developing analytical methods for carbonaceous aerosol, including source-specific organic tracers.

As a member of the Chemical Coordinating Centre of the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) at NILU, he contributes to research on the long-range atmospheric transport of aerosol particles.

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Kjetil Tørseth received his Dr Scient  degree at NTNU-Trondheim, and has worked at NILU since 1992.Since 1999 he has served as department head/research director.

His expertize includes measurements and data management and assessment of precipitation chemistry, reactive gases, aerosols and climate forcers, and their associated effects on ecosystems, health and climate.

He is engaged in a wide range of programs addressing assessments of air pollution on regional and global scales, including EMEP (head the EMEP Chemical Coordinating Centre), WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW Country contact of Norway, member to the Scientific Advisory Group on Reactive Gases, responsible for the two GAW World Data Centers on Aerosols (GAW-WDCA) and Reactive Gases (GAW-WDCRG). He is also engaged in several research infrastructure activities like ICOS, ACTRIS and SIOS. He has a broad experience from many international research and capacity building projects.

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Dr. Rona Thompson is a senior scientist at NILU, Kjeller, since 2011. 

Dr. Thompson has a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Since completing her PhD, Thompson has been a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, and at the Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences in Saclay, France. 

Dr Thompson’s main research interests are in understanding the sources and sinks of atmospheric pollutants, including greenhouse gases, and the processes driving these. For this, she employs atmospheric transport models and statistical methods. 

Dr Thompson has a long experience working with, and developing, numerical models for atmospheric research. She is also the developer of the atmospheric inversion framework, FLEXINVERT. 

Dr Thompson is actively involved in Norwegian and European research projects and is currently the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project, EYE-CLIMA. She is also the co-leader of the Global Carbon Project N2O Budget activity. 

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