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The International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service (IGETS) was established in 2015 by the International Association of Geodesy. IGETS continues the activities of the Global Geodynamics Project (GGP) between 1997 and 2015 to provide support to geodetic and geophysical research activities using superconducting gravimeter (SG) data within the context of an international network. As part of this network, the Larzac station (code LA) was established in 2011 by GM - OSU OREME. Continuous time-varying gravity and atmospheric pressure data from LA are integrated in the IGETS data base hosted by ISDC (Information System and Data Centre) at GFZ. The gravimetry laboratory is located at 50 km at the West of Montpellier (longitude: 3.22 E, latitude: 43.97 N, height above MSL: 670 m) in the Larzac Observatory (https://deims.org/83b01fa5-747f-47be-9185-408d73a90fb2). It has been designed to monitor hydro-meteorological parameters in a karstic and Mediterranean environment. To monitor groundwater resources, an SG manufactured by GWR Instruments, the iGrav#002, has been installed in the observatory at the begin of June 2011. Research activities are aimed at both validate gravimeters (eg Gphone in Fores et al., 2019 or AQG-A in Menoret et al., 2018). The time series of gravity and barometric pressure from the gravimeter iGrav-002 starts in June 2011. The time sampling of the raw gravity and barometric pressure data of IGETS Level 1 is both 1 minute and 1 second. For a detailed description of the IGETS data base and the provided files see Voigt et al. (2016, http://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.b103-16087). Moreover the observatory is also equipped with a permanent GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) antenna HOLA, a large band seismometer and an eddy-correlation flux tower belonging of the RENAG network (RESIF-RENAG French National Geodetic Network, RESIF – Réseau Sismologique et Géodésique Français, https://doi.org/10.15778/resif.rg, 2017) which is the French contribution to EPOS for the Seismology and Geodesy components.