EGU25-16118, updated on 15 Mar 2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16118
EGU General Assembly 2025
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Seizing the FAIR-EASE project interdisciplinary opportunity to investigate the Ocean Biogeochemical data in the vicinity of the 2022 record breaking Hunga Tonga Eruption
Catherine Schmechtig1, Marie Boichu2, Thierry Carval3, Delphine Dobler4, Raphael Grandin5, Theo Mathurin6, Nicolas Pascal6, Virginie Racapé7, Catalina Reyes8, Raphaelle Sauzede9, and Reiner Schlitzer10
Catherine Schmechtig et al.
  • 1OSU Ecce Terra, CNRS, SU, Paris, France (catherine.schmechtig@obs-vlfr.fr)
  • 2LOA, CNRS, Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France (marie.boichu@univ-lille.fr)
  • 3Ifremer, Plouzané, France (thierry.carval@ifremer.fr)
  • 4Euro Argo, Plouzané, France (delphine.dobler@euro-argo.eu)
  • 5IPGP, Paris, France, (grandin@ipgp.fr)
  • 6Icare, Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq (theo.mathurin@univ-lille.fr, nicolas.pascal@univ-lille.fr)
  • 7Pokapok, Plouzané, France (virginie.racape@pokapok.org)
  • 8OGS, Trieste, Italy (nreyessuarez@ogs.it)
  • 9IMEV, CNRS, SU, Villefranche sur mer, France ( raphaelle.sauzede@imev-mer.fr)
  • 10AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany (Reiner.Schlitzer@awi.de)

Under the umbrella of the EOSC ecosystem, the FAIR-EASE project funded under HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-04 aims to facilitate access to interoperable data and services for earth and environmental multi-disciplinary use cases, demonstrating the capabilities to support open science (https://fairease.eu/). Based on three of its pilots more specifically: the Volcano Space Observatory pilot, the Ocean Biogeochemical Observations pilot and the Coastal Dynamic pilot, the FAIR-EASE partners would like to highlight both the synergy and the new emerging interdisciplinary collaborations and progresses that can be achieved in the framework of such a European project promoting FAIR principles. 

Indeed,

* The Volcano Space Observatory Pilot supports the implementation of innovative web services (notably here the open access VOLCPLUME web platform) displaying a broad range of satellite and ground-based data relevant to the characterization of volcanic gas and particle properties for the near real-time monitoring of volcanic activity and atmospheric hazards.

* The Ocean Biogeochemical (BGC) Observations aims to provide a common QA/QC (Quality Assessment /Quality Control) platform to the whole BGC community to enhance the BGC data quality and address fundamental scientific questions. 

* The webODV software, part of the Coastal Water Dynamic pilot tools, allows to display and superimpose very heterogeneous datasets (i.e. satellite surface data vs. in situ profiles data, climatology vs. in situ profiles data, observations vs. model simulations in general).

Taking as a starting point, the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on January 15, 2022, and the availability of various satellite observations of volcanic plumes and ocean surface properties together with in situ Argo (Argo is an international program that collects information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents) floats measuring BGC variables such as the chlorophyll-a and suspended particles in the eruption area, FAIR-EASE partners aim to investigate the potential impacts of such a major stratospheric eruptions a record breaking eruption in the satellite era, on the marine ecosystem. Volcano and BGC community expertise as well as tools developed and pooled on Galaxy Europe platform (Galaxy is an open-source Virtual Research Environment) during the FAIR-EASE project support scientists in their investigation.

How to cite: Schmechtig, C., Boichu, M., Carval, T., Dobler, D., Grandin, R., Mathurin, T., Pascal, N., Racapé, V., Reyes, C., Sauzede, R., and Schlitzer, R.: Seizing the FAIR-EASE project interdisciplinary opportunity to investigate the Ocean Biogeochemical data in the vicinity of the 2022 record breaking Hunga Tonga Eruption, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-16118, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16118, 2025.