Overview of ICARUS─A Curated, Open Access, Online Repository for Atmospheric Simulation Chamber Data

Tran B. Nguyen, Kelvin H. Bates, Reina S. Buenconsejo, Sophia M. Charan, Eric E. Cavanna, David R. Cocker, Douglas A. Day, Marla P. DeVault, Neil M. Donahue, Zachary Finewax, Luke F. Habib, Anne V. Handschy, Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz, Chung Yi S. Hou, Jose L. Jimenez, Taekyu Joo, Alexandra L. Klodt, Weimeng Kong, Chen Le, Catherine G. MasoudMatthew S. Mayernik, Nga L. Ng, Eric J. Nienhouse, Sergey A. Nizkorodov, John J. Orlando, Jeroen J. Post, Patrick O. Sturm, Bridget L. Thrasher, Geoffrey S. Tyndall, John H. Seinfeld, Steven J. Worley, Xuan Zhang, Paul J. Ziemann

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Abstract

Atmospheric simulation chambers continue to be indispensable tools for research in the atmospheric sciences. Insights from chamber studies are integrated into atmospheric chemical transport models, which are used for science-informed policy decisions. However, a centralized data management and access infrastructure for their scientific products had not been available in the United States and many parts of the world. ICARUS (Integrated Chamber Atmospheric data Repository for Unified Science) is an open access, searchable, web-based infrastructure for storing, sharing, discovering, and utilizing atmospheric chamber data [https://icarus.ucdavis.edu]. ICARUS has two parts: a data intake portal and a search and discovery portal. Data in ICARUS are curated, uniform, interactive, indexed on popular search engines, mirrored by other repositories, version-tracked, vocabulary-controlled, and citable. ICARUS hosts both legacy data and new data in compliance with open access data mandates. Targeted data discovery is available based on key experimental parameters, including organic reactants and mixtures that are managed using the PubChem chemical database, oxidant information, nitrogen oxide (NOx) content, alkylperoxy radical (RO2) fate, seed particle information, environmental conditions, and reaction categories. A discipline-specific repository such as ICARUS with high amounts of metadata works to support the evaluation and revision of atmospheric model mechanisms, intercomparison of data and models, and the development of new model frameworks that can have more predictive power in the current and future atmosphere. The open accessibility and interactive nature of ICARUS data may also be useful for teaching, data mining, and training machine learning models.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1235-1246
Number of pages12
JournalACS Earth and Space Chemistry
Volume7
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 15 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • atmospheric chamber
  • atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • data repository
  • data science
  • database

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