Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3815-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3815-2018
Research article
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28 Jun 2018
Research article |  | 28 Jun 2018

Methane profiles from GOSAT thermal infrared spectra

Arno de Lange and Jochen Landgraf

Data sets

GOSAT Data Archive Service GOSAT Data Processing https://data2.gosat.nies.go.jp

TCCON Data TCCON https://tccondata.org/

ECMWF MACC GHG inversions ECMWF MACC http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/macc-ghg-inversions/

CarbonTracker Data CarbonTracker https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/ftpdata.html

ECMWF Interim Full Daily Data ECMWF http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/

Data used in Figures A. de Lange and J. Landgraf ftp://ftp.sron.nl/open-access-data/jochen/de_Lange_2018

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Short summary
Atmospheric methane abundances as function of altitude derived from the thermal infrared band of the Japanese GOSAT satellite show a systematic bias. It has been shown that simple correction schemes can lead to undesired consequences. This paper discusses a more elaborate approach, resulting in methane profiles that fall within 2 % of independent reference measurements and models. This is true for different scenes around the globe and over the full altitude range.