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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3697-2017
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3697-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
09 Oct 2017
Research article |
| 09 Oct 2017
Comparison of the GOSAT TANSO-FTS TIR CH4 volume mixing ratio vertical profiles with those measured by ACE-FTS, ESA MIPAS, IMK-IAA MIPAS, and 16 NDACC stations
Kevin S. Olsen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physics, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kimberly Strong
Department of Physics, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kaley A. Walker
Department of Physics, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Chris D. Boone
Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Piera Raspollini
Istituto di Fisica Applicata “N. Carrara” (IFAC) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Florence, Italy
Johannes Plieninger
Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Whitney Bader
Department of Physics, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Stephanie Conway
Department of Physics, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michel Grutter
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
James W. Hannigan
Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Frank Hase
Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Nicholas Jones
Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Martine de Mazière
Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie-Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique (IASB-BIRA), Brussels, Belgium
Justus Notholt
Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Matthias Schneider
Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dan Smale
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA), Lauder, New Zealand
Ralf Sussmann
Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Naoko Saitoh
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Data sets
Level 2 data ACE-FTS Science Team https://databace.scisat.ca/level2/
ESA MIPAS Level 2 data ESA Earth Online portal https://earth.esa.int/
IMK-IAA MIPAS Level 2 data KIT https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/308.php
NDACC data ational Centers for Environmental Prediction https://www.ndsc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/data_tbl/
Short summary
The primary instrument on the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) is the Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observations (TANSO) Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS). TANSO-FTS has a thermal infrared channel to retrieve vertical profiles of CO2 and CH4 volume mixing ratios in the troposphere. We compare the retrieved vertical profiles of CH4 from TANSO-FTS with those from two other spaceborne FTSs and with ground-based FTS observatories to assess their quality.
The primary instrument on the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) is the Thermal And...
