ICOS Sweden
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Sweden is a research infrastructure with a network of stations supporting research within environmental and geoscience disciplines.
ICOS Sweden provides a unique long-term and standardised series of measurements of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as well as flows of carbon between land, air, and sea in Sweden. The collected data are used to support research and decision-making in the environmental and climate fields.
ICOS Sweden is part of the European infrastructure ICOS European Research Infrastructure Consortium and comprises seven ecosystem stations, three atmospheric stations, and two marine stations in Sweden – from Abisko in the north to Skåne in the south.
Lund University operates four of these stations, located at the forest sites Hyltemossa in Skåne and Norunda in Uppland. Each site has both an ecosystem station and an atmospheric station.
ICOS Sweden is organisationally located at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Partners include Lund University, the University of Gothenburg, SMHI, Uppsala University, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Equipment and operations are jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council and the participating partners.
More than 300 researchers involved
ICOS Sweden delivers scientifically standardised methods for sampling, analysis, and measurements within the atmosphere, ecosystems, and the marine environment, and provides time series that extend beyond individual projects. In 2024, the infrastructure supported more than 110 research projects with activities at ICOS Sweden’s stations, involving over 300 researchers.
Users access ICOS data via the ICOS Carbon Portal, which is based on the FAIR principles, and also through the Swedish National Data Service. Measurements produced by ICOS Sweden are used internationally, for example in synthesis reports on global trends that inform decision-makers about changes in atmospheric composition driving climate change (World Meteorological Organization, 2025).
Read more on ICOS Sweden’s website via the link below:
ICOS Sweden website – icos-sweden.se
Read more about the ICOS Carbon Portal
Read more about the FAIR principles – researchdata.se
Read more about the Swedish National Data Service – snd.se
Read more about the World Meteorological Organization– wmo.int
More information about ICOS Sweden
Learn more about ICOS Sweden and find contact details on the ICOS Sweden website.
ICOS Sweden in the Research Portal
You can find ICOS Sweden's research projects and publications in the Lund University Research Portal.