CARBON

The Carbon Virtual Research Environment is the first digital environment dedicated to the Italian carbon balance and cycle. It stores national data and promotes sharing, analysis, and innovative research, useful for both the research community and national authorities or local managers in charge of reporting activities The Carbon VRE stores and documents multiple carbon-related data, such as outputs of large scale models, ground observations from Research Infrastructures and national/international facilities, and outputs from specific and local modelling efforts. Most data are spatially explicit, and the aim is to provide national information down to the provincial level. All the compartments are documented, including Emissions, Land, Atmosphere, and Marine, and a specific tool allows to calculate the balance at different spatial scales. The Carbon VRE integrates: (a) the geoportal that allows to navigate, visualize and explore data based on location; (b) the Metadata Catalog that reports information on the datasets; (c) the Analysis Tool that allows to perform user-specific processing, with links to R Studio and QGIS environments and code.