,,,,- Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale-OGS, Udine, Italy (rfranceschini@ogs.it)
Within the framework of the ITINERIS project, funded by the NextGenerationEU Programme (2022–2025), activities focus on the downstream effects of climate and environmental change. The Downstream Virtual Research Environment (VRE) supports the use of Research Infrastructures by providing tools for data visualization, analysis, and sharing, and is hosted on the D4Science infrastructure, where dedicated marine and land domain toolboxes have been developed (Assante et al.,2019, 2021).
The marine domain toolbox leverages available datasets to create an integrated dataset of temperature, salinity, pH, and CO₂ for the Gulf of Trieste (Italy), with particular emphasis on data from the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) over the last ten years, used as a representative use case. After data harvesting, validation, quality control, and merging are carried out using ERDDAP Navigator, a web application that enables data visualization, quality flag assignment, analysis, and integration. The resulting integrated dataset is then employed to compute climate change indicators, including ocean acidification and ocean carbon cycle budgets.
The land domain toolbox is designed to analyse areas affected by hydrogeological hazards, with a specific focus on landslide processes. In this context, a GeoServer and a GeoNetwork have been implemented to host regional-scale maps. At the local scale, several monitoring systems—including interferometric radar, GPS, extensometers, inclinometers, a video camera, and a data coordinator—have been installed for identifing potential ground instabilities. The monitoring instruments provide geospatial data from which time-series datasets are derived. All data products are documented and downloadable, and a dedicated web application supports time-series visualization and analysis.
Acknowledgements
The work has been funded by EU - Next Generation EU Mission 4 “Education and Research” - Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures” - Project IR0000032 – ITINERIS - Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System - CUP B53C22002150006.
The authors acknowledge the Research Infrastructures participating in the ITINERIS project with their Italian nodes: ACTRIS, ANAEE, ATLaS, CeTRA, DANUBIUS, DISSCO, e-LTER, ECORD, EMPHASIS, EMSO ,EUFAR ,Euro-Argo, EuroFleets, Geoscience, IBISBA, ICOS, JERICO, LIFEWATCH, LNS, N/R Laura Bassi, SIOS, SMINO.
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How to cite: Franceschini, R., Reyes Suarez, N. C., Altenburger, A., Rossi, G., and Giorgetti, A.: Land and Marine earth science applications within a Downstream Virtual Research Environment, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-9690, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-9690, 2026.
