New EUFAR flight finder

EUFAR (EUropean Facility for Airborne Research, https://www.eufar.net) was born out of the necessity to create a central network for the airborne research community in Europe with the principal aim of supporting scientists, by granting them access to research aircraft and instruments otherwise not accessible in their home countries. With time EUFAR has grown, introducing new activities and objectives to place itself as the unique network and portal of airborne research for the environmental and geosciences in Europe. From serving as an interactive and dynamic hub of information, to maintaining a central data archive, and developing tools and standards to collect, process and analyse data, EUFAR continues to improve the operational environment for conducting airborne research.

EUFAR's data archive activity seeks to improve access to and use of the data collected by instrumented aircraft in Europe, providing a unique portal to the data along with supporting metadata. AERIS, the French Data and Services Cluster for Atmosphere (https://en.aeris-data.fr) has implemented a new Data and Metadata Catalogue for EUFAR that in the longer term is intended to become a principal data portal for the European airborne science community.

All EUFAR datasets are following the FAIR principles. The main features of the catalogue, i.e. data and metadata discovery and download, have been improved. Advanced services have been implemented such as the discovery of external datasets from EUFAR partners starting with the French Research Airborne Data Portal SAFIRE+. This will be extended to other databases in 2022 such as DLR, NERC-ARF, FAAM, Met Office, etc. New advanced features are currently under development: discovery of datasets from other airborne Research Infrastructures (IAGOS, HEMERA, etc.); data visualization services; integration of the EUFAR products and services in EOSC (European Open Science Cloud); tools for the management of campaigns metadata, etc.