{"title":"Seismic assessment of high-rise buildings through dynamic nonlinear analysis","authors":"Xiuwen Wu, Daoyun Lin","doi":"10.4401/ag-8770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8770","url":null,"abstract":"This paper present a seismic assessment of high-rise buildings using dynamic nonlinear analysis. The work touches upon an urgent problem of ensuring the stability of high-rise buildings under seismic load and preventing their destruction. A mathematical model has been built to investigate the effect of seismic activity on high-rise buildings in the Sichuan province (China). Pearson’s test was used to compare the statistical dependence between variables in the study period. Values with a statistical significance of p ≤ 0.05 were considered statistically significant. The probability of earthquakes of 8 magnitude and above was found to be 5% with a frequency of recurrence of 3900 ± 400 yrs, p ≤ 0.001. The paper presents the technique of refractive geophysical research. The seismic reliability index was n = 3.2 at t = 5 s. The standard deviation was 2% and the χ2 statistic was 0.95. The overall (0.59, or 59%) and conditional (0.06, or 6%) risks of failure under seismic load were calculated for high-rise buildings with a service life of 100 years. The coefficients of seismic activity were as follows: 3.203 at the conditional risk level of 5%; 2.97 at the conditional risk level of 10%; and 2.523 at the conditional risk level of 30%.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88242248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Fernandes, C. Bruyninx, P. Crocker, J. Menut, A. Socquet, M. Vergnolle, A. Avallone, M. Bos, S. Bruni, R. Cardoso, Luis Carvalho, N. Cotte, N. D’Agostino, A. Déprez, Fabian Andras, Fernando Geraldes, G. Janex, A. Kenyeres, J. Legrand, K-M. Ngo, M. Lidberg, T. Liwosz, J. Manteigueiro, A. Miglio, W. Soehne, Steffen Holger, S. Tóth, J. Douša, A. Ganas, V. Kapetanidis, Gabriela Batti
{"title":"A new European service to share GNSS Data and Products","authors":"R. Fernandes, C. Bruyninx, P. Crocker, J. Menut, A. Socquet, M. Vergnolle, A. Avallone, M. Bos, S. Bruni, R. Cardoso, Luis Carvalho, N. Cotte, N. D’Agostino, A. Déprez, Fabian Andras, Fernando Geraldes, G. Janex, A. Kenyeres, J. Legrand, K-M. Ngo, M. Lidberg, T. Liwosz, J. Manteigueiro, A. Miglio, W. Soehne, Steffen Holger, S. Tóth, J. Douša, A. Ganas, V. Kapetanidis, Gabriela Batti","doi":"10.4401/ag-8776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8776","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the new GNSS data and product services that have been developed within the context of the EPOS (European Plate Observing System) European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), which is part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. These services, optimized for Solid Earth research applications, endeavour to harmonise, and standardise Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data collection and processing. They have been implemented by the members of the GNSS Data & Products (EPOS-GNSS), one of the Thematic Core Services (TCS) of EPOS with the active support of national and pan-European infrastructures (in particular the Regional Reference Frame Sub-Commission for Europe (EUREF) of the International Association of Geodesy). The optimized use of data from dozens of diverse European GNSS networks, installed not specifically for geodynamic studies, created additional requirements from an organizational and technical point of view, the solutions for which we describe in this article. The data flows from data suppliers and analysis centers to the various TCS Data & Product Portals are described, as well as their integration into the overall EPOS system. This is made through GLASS (GNSS Linkage Advanced Software System), a dedicated software package developed since 2016, whose architecture and functionalities are detailed here. Time series and other GNSS products computed at the several analysis centers are described as are the quality control steps that are performed. Finally, several user cases are presented that demonstrate how different stakeholders (from data providers to scientists) can benefit from the efforts being carried out by the EPOS- GNSS community.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86932248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Chiaraluce, G. Festa, P. Bernard, A. Caracausi, Ivano Carluccio, J. Clinton, R. Di Stefano, L. Elia, C. Evangelidis, S. Ergintav, Ovidiu Jianu, G. Kaviris, A. Marmureanu, S. Šebela, E. Sokos
{"title":"The Near Fault Observatory community in Europe: a new resource for faulting and hazard studies","authors":"L. Chiaraluce, G. Festa, P. Bernard, A. Caracausi, Ivano Carluccio, J. Clinton, R. Di Stefano, L. Elia, C. Evangelidis, S. Ergintav, Ovidiu Jianu, G. Kaviris, A. Marmureanu, S. Šebela, E. Sokos","doi":"10.4401/ag-8778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8778","url":null,"abstract":"The Near Fault Observatories (NFOs) community is one of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS, http://www.epos-eu.org) Thematic Communities, today consisting of six research infrastructures that operate in regions characterised by high seismic hazard originating from different tectonic regimes. Earthquakes respond to complex natural systems whose mechanical properties evolve over time. Thus, in order to understand the multi-scale, physical/chemical processes responsible for the faulting that earthquakes occur on, it is required to consider phenomena that intersect different research fields, i.e., to put in place multidisciplinary monitoring. Hence, NFOs are grounded on modern and multidisciplinary infrastructures, collecting near fault high resolution raw data that allows generation of innovative scientific products. The NFOs usually complement regional backbone networks with a higher density distribution of seismic, geodetic, geochemical and other geophysical sensors, at surface and sometimes below grade. These dense and modern networks of multi-parametric sensors are sited at and around active faults, where moderate to large earthquakes have occurred in the past and are expected in the future. They continuously monitor the underlying Earth instability processes over a broad time interval. Data collected at each NFO results in an exceptionally high degree of knowledge of the geometry and parameters characterizing the local geological faults and their deformation pattern. The novel data produced by the NFO community is aggregated in EPOS and is made available to a diverse set of stakeholders through the NFO Federated Specific Data Gateway (FRIDGE). In the broader domain of the Solid Earth sciences, NFOs meet the growing expectations of the learning and communication sectors by hosting a large variety of scientific information about earthquakes as a natural phenomenon and a societal issue. It represents the EPOS concept and objective of aggregating and harmonising the European research infrastructures capabilities to facilitate broader scientific opportunity. The NFOs are at the cutting edge of network monitoring. They conduct multidisciplinary experiments for testing multi-sensor stations, as well as realise robust and ultra-low latency, transmission systems that can routinely accommodate temporary monitoring densification. The effort to continuously upgrade the technological efficiency of monitoring systems positions the NFO at the centre of marketing opportunities for the European enterprises devoted to new sensor technology. The NFOs constitute ideal test beds for generating expertise on data integration, creating tools for the next generation of multidisciplinary research, routine data analysis and data visualization. In particular focus is often on near-real time tools and triggering alarms at different levels are tested and implemented, strengthening the cooperation with the Agencies for risk management. NFOs have developed innovative o","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82959516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Lasocki, B. Orlecka‐Sikora, Joanna Kocot, Karolina Chodzińska, Anna Leśnodorska
{"title":"EPOS Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards in the operational phase","authors":"S. Lasocki, B. Orlecka‐Sikora, Joanna Kocot, Karolina Chodzińska, Anna Leśnodorska","doi":"10.4401/ag-8743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8743","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of hazards induced by the exploitation of geo-resources focuses growing interest of science, industry, public administration, non-governmental organisations and the general public. Anthropogenic seismicity, i.e. the undesired dynamic rock mass response to geo-resources exploitation, is one of the examples of unwanted by-products of the technological operation of humans. The socio-economic impact of the induced seismicity is very significant. Induced earthquakes can cause material loss, injuries and even fatalities. Restricted access to data constitutes a barrier to assessing and mitigating the associated hazards. To respond to the need of the scientific community the Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS AH) has been created within the framework of the European Plate Observing System, a solid earth science European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). TCS AH is an open consortium of 13 European institutions. TCS AH provides access to a novel e-research infrastructure, the EPISODES Platform (former name: IS-EPOS platform) to foster both research and training on induced seismicity and geo-hazards related to the exploration and exploitation of geo-resources. The EPISODES Platform is connected to international data nodes which offer open access to multidisciplinary datasets, called episodes. Episodes comprise geoscientific and associated data from industrial activity along with a large set of embedded applications for their efficient data processing, analysis and visualization. The EPISODES Platform opens also the possibility to create new applications and combine implemented applications with the user's codes. The team-working features of the EPISODES Platform facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary scientific research, public understanding of science, citizen science applications, knowledge dissemination, and the teaching of anthropogenic hazards related to geo-resource exploitation. This study presents the current results of the TCS AH research infrastructure integration and also indicates the benefits of their usage for science, education, and innovation.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81056062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Elger, Geertje ter Maat, R. Caldeira, C. Cimarelli, F. Corbi, Stephane Dominguez, Martin Drury, F. Funiciello, Otto Lange, A. Ougier-Simonin, M. Rosenau, R. Wessels, E. Willingshofer, A. Winkler
{"title":"The EPOS Multi-Scale Laboratories: A FAIR Framework for stimulating Open Science practice across European Earth Sciences Laboratories","authors":"K. Elger, Geertje ter Maat, R. Caldeira, C. Cimarelli, F. Corbi, Stephane Dominguez, Martin Drury, F. Funiciello, Otto Lange, A. Ougier-Simonin, M. Rosenau, R. Wessels, E. Willingshofer, A. Winkler","doi":"10.4401/ag-8790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8790","url":null,"abstract":"The Multi-scale Laboratories (MSL) are a network of European laboratories bringing together the scientific fields of analogue modeling, paleomagnetism, experimental rock and melt physics, geo- chemistry and microscopy. MSL is one of nine (see below) Thematic Core Services (TCS) of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS). The overarching goal of EPOS is to establish a compre- hensive multidisciplinary research platform for the Earth sciences in Europe. It aims at facilitating the integrated use of data, models, and facilities, from both existing and new distributed pan European Research Infrastructures, allowing open access and transparent use of data. The TCS MSL network allows researchers to collaborate with other labs and scientists. By becoming part of the rapidly growing TCS MSL network, new laboratories are offered a platform to showcase their research data output, laboratory equipment and information, and the opportunity to open laboratories to guest researchers through the Transnational Access (TNA) program. The EPOS Multi-scale laboratories offer researchers a fully operational data publication chain tailored to the specific needs of laboratory research, from a bespoke metadata editor, through dedi cated, (domainspecific) data repositories, to the MSL Portal showcasing these citable data publica- tions. During this process the data publications are assigned with digital object identidiers (DOI), published with open licenses (e.g. CC BY 4.0) and described with standardized and machine-read- able rich metadata (following the FAIR Principles to make research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. The TCS MSL is currently working on linking these data publications to the EPOS Central Portal1, the main discovery and access point for European multi-disciplinary data, and on increasing the number of connected data repositories.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84091905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Balli, Barbara Angioni, Simona Cerrato, Silvia Filosa, Claudio Goffi, Luca Postpichl, R. Silva, Dorina Stanculescu, Massimo Cocco
{"title":"Communication strategy and plans for research infrastructures: the EPOS case","authors":"E. Balli, Barbara Angioni, Simona Cerrato, Silvia Filosa, Claudio Goffi, Luca Postpichl, R. Silva, Dorina Stanculescu, Massimo Cocco","doi":"10.4401/ag-8845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8845","url":null,"abstract":"Strategic research communication has found an increasing recognition in recent years. Research infrastructures (RIs) are called upon to effectively communicate the scientific research they foster in order to ensure that they attract users and their findings may influence both policy-makers and society at large. Not to mention that many funding bodies are making communication a requirement when it comes to allocating research funds. The current paper reflects on the experience of developing a communication strategy for the European research infrastructure EPOS (European Plate Observing System) and highlights some challenges and best practices to set up and maintain the critical links between people, ideas and information that are vital for the success of every communication plan. The complex nature of the EPOS RI revealed a series of challenges and opportunities that need to be fully embraced if EPOS research findings are to have maximum possible impact and demonstrate their worth for all stakeholders involved. We started with an in-depth analysis of the EPOS mission, vision and value proposition, then moved on to identifying weaknesses and strengths to build on and eventually envisage pathways for improving internal and external communication and further engaging the different EPOS communities and stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89200695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Puglisi, D. Reitano, L. Spampinato, K. Vogfjörd, S. Barsotti, Lucia Cacciola, Adelina Geyer Traver, Davíð Steinar Guðjónsson, Yannick Guéhenneux, J. Komorowski, P. Labazuy, A. Lemarchand, R. Nave, J. Saurel, P. Bachèlery
{"title":"The integrated multidisciplinary European volcano infrastructure: from the conception to the implementation","authors":"G. Puglisi, D. Reitano, L. Spampinato, K. Vogfjörd, S. Barsotti, Lucia Cacciola, Adelina Geyer Traver, Davíð Steinar Guðjónsson, Yannick Guéhenneux, J. Komorowski, P. Labazuy, A. Lemarchand, R. Nave, J. Saurel, P. Bachèlery","doi":"10.4401/ag-8794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8794","url":null,"abstract":"Recent decades have highlighted the increasing need to connect and strengthen the volcanology community at European level. Indeed, research in the volcanology field is highly qualified in Europe and the volcano monitoring infrastructures have achieved valuable know-how, becoming the state-of-the-art in the world. However, the lack of common good practices in sciences and technologies, missing standards, as well as a significant fragmentation of the community requires coordination to move forward and guarantee a trans-national harmonisation. The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) represented the first opportunity to initiate this process of coordination by encouraging the creation of a European volcanological scientific infrastructure for data and service sharing. During the preparation and the design of EPOS, the volcanology community identified the objectives and the needs of the community building, the services to be provided and the work plan to implement the infrastructure. To achieve this aim, the contribution from three European projects FUTUREVOLC, MED-SUV and EUROVOLC was essential. This paper presents the main steps performed during the last years for building the community and implementing the infrastructure. This paper also describes the strategic choices and actions taken to realise the infrastructure such as the establishment of the Volcano Observation Thematic Core Service (TCS), whose structure and activity are described.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91153590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Urvois, Sylvain Grellet, H. Lorenz, R. Haener, C. Loiselet, M. Harrison, Matija Krivic, C. B. Pedersen, Marianne B. Wiese, Amelia Baptie, Martin L. Nayembil, James Trench, Ivor Marsh, C. Cipolloni, C. D'Ambrogi, M. Congi
{"title":"Integrating geological data in Europe to foster multidisciplinary research","authors":"M. Urvois, Sylvain Grellet, H. Lorenz, R. Haener, C. Loiselet, M. Harrison, Matija Krivic, C. B. Pedersen, Marianne B. Wiese, Amelia Baptie, Martin L. Nayembil, James Trench, Ivor Marsh, C. Cipolloni, C. D'Ambrogi, M. Congi","doi":"10.4401/ag-8817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8817","url":null,"abstract":"The European Plate Observing System (EPOS, www.epos-eu.org) is a multidisciplinary pan-European research infrastructure for solid Earth science. It integrates a series of domain-specific service hubs (Thematic Core Service, TCS) such as the Geological Information and Modelling, which provides access to data, data products and services on European boreholes, geological maps, mineral occurrences, mines and 3D models. TCS GIM services are hosted by a group of European Geological Surveys and a couple of national research organizations. This paper presents novel data discovery and integration, facilitated using borehole logging information with on-demand web services to produce 3D geological structures. This domain interoperability across EPOS was created for the purpose of research, but it is also highly relevant for the response to societal grand challenges such as natural hazards and climate change. European and international interoperability implementation frameworks are well described and used (e.g., INSPIRE, ISO, OGC, and IUGS/CGI). It can be difficult for data providers to deploy web services that support the full semantic data definition (e.g., OGC Complex Feature) to expose several millions of geological entities through web-enabled data portals as required by pan-European projects. The TCS GIM group implemented and innovatively extended two standardized descriptions, i.e. GeoSciML-Lite and EarthResourceML-Lite, with an important reuse of content from Linked Data Registries. This approach was applied to design and implement the European Borehole Index and associated web services (View-WMS and Discovery-WFS), extended to 3D models, geological maps as well as mineral occurrences and mines. Results presented here apply the Linked Data approach ensuring optimal semantic description and enriching the data graphs, with complex descriptions and contents. In this way, it is now possible to traverse from one Borehole Index instance to linked richer information such as the borehole geological log, groundwater levels, rock sample description, analyses, etc. All this detailed information is served following international interoperability standards (Observations & Measurements, GroundWaterML 2.0, GeoSciML4, amongst others).","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91206351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Dioguardi, S. Massaro, G. Chiodini, Antonio Costa, A. Folch, G. Macedonio, L. Sandri, J. Selva, G. Tamburello
{"title":"VIGIL: A Python tool for automatized probabilistic VolcanIc Gas dIspersion modeLling","authors":"F. Dioguardi, S. Massaro, G. Chiodini, Antonio Costa, A. Folch, G. Macedonio, L. Sandri, J. Selva, G. Tamburello","doi":"10.4401/ag-8796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8796","url":null,"abstract":"Probabilistic volcanic hazard assessment is a standard methodology based on running a deterministic hazard quantification tool multiple times to explore the full range of uncertainty in the input parameters and boundary conditions, in order to probabilistically quantify the variability of outputs accounting for such uncertainties. Nowadays, different volcanic hazards are quantified by means of this approach. Among these, volcanic gas emission is particularly relevant given the threat posed to human health if concentrations and exposure times exceed certain thresholds. There are different types of gas emissions but two main scenarios can be recognized: hot buoyant gas emissions from fumaroles and the ground and dense gas emissions feeding density currents that can occur, e.g., in limnic eruptions. Simulation tools are available to model the evolution of critical gas concentrations over an area of interest. Moreover, in order to perform probabilistic hazard assessments of volcanic gases, simulations should account for the natural variability associated to aspects such as seasonal and daily wind conditions, localized or diffuse source locations, and gas fluxes. Here we present VIGIL (automatized probabilistic VolcanIc Gas dIspersion modeLling), a new Python tool designed for managing the entire simulation workflow involved in single and probabilistic applications of gas dispersion modelling. VIGIL is able to manage the whole process from meteorological data processing, needed to run gas dispersion in both the dilute and dense gas flow scenarios, to the post processing of models’ outputs. Two application examples are presented to show some of the modelling capabilities offered by VIGIL.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"187 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77576955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kauzar Saleh Contell, Karin Karlzén, Massimo Cocco, H. Pedersen, K. Atakan, D. Bailo, Otto Lange, Daniela Mercurio, G. Maracchia, Diana Piras, A. Sangianantoni, M. Fredella, C. Freda
{"title":"Long-term sustainability of a distributed RI: the EPOS case","authors":"Kauzar Saleh Contell, Karin Karlzén, Massimo Cocco, H. Pedersen, K. Atakan, D. Bailo, Otto Lange, Daniela Mercurio, G. Maracchia, Diana Piras, A. Sangianantoni, M. Fredella, C. Freda","doi":"10.4401/ag-8786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8786","url":null,"abstract":"The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) is a distributed research infrastructure (RI) with the mission to establish and maintain sustainable and long-term access to solid Earth science data and services by integrating the diverse national research infrastructures under a common federated framework governed by EPOS ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium). This paper presents the EPOS approach to ensure financial viability and to tackle the challenge of long-term sustainability of the RI during its operational phase. The EPOS approach to sustainable operation considers the scientific impact and the promotion of scientific research as the preconditions to achieve long-term sustainability. Enabling scientific excellence implies that high-quality data and services are provided reliably and continuously to establish the RI as the enabler of investigations to solid Earth scientists. The strategic approach and the solutions adopted by EPOS ERIC to address the long-term sustainability of a pan-European distributed RI are discussed in this paper focusing on the governance structure, considered as the qualifying dimension that gathers and connects the financial, legal and technical dimensions. The governance and the financial models are discussed to delineate the legal framework necessary to operate the EPOS RI relying on the implemented technical solutions. A sufficiently stable investment environment is necessary to allow the RI to concentrate on providing high quality services for their user communities. This paper discusses the current actions and challenges to be addressed for achieving this goal.","PeriodicalId":50766,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Geophysics","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83482180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}