The impact of improved aerosol priors on near-infrared measurements of carbon dioxide

Nelson, Robert R.; O'Dell, Christopher W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1495-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1495-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1495-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Research article

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07 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 07 Mar 2019

The impact of improved aerosol priors on near-infrared measurements of carbon dioxide

Robert R. Nelson and Christopher W. O'Dell

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Final revised paper (published on 07 Mar 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 21 Nov 2018)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'excellent assessment of the impact of aerosol prior information on OCO-2 retrievals', François-Marie Bréon, 06 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'RC1 Author Response', Robert Roland Nelson, 29 Jan 2019
RC2: 'Review of manuscript AMT-2018-366', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Jan 2019
- AC2: 'RC2 Author Response', Robert Roland Nelson, 29 Jan 2019

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AR by Robert Roland Nelson on behalf of the Authors (29 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Feb 2019) by Piet Stammes

AR by Robert Roland Nelson on behalf of the Authors (08 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (18 Feb 2019) by Piet Stammes

AR by Robert Roland Nelson on behalf of the Authors (18 Feb 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Accurate measurements of carbon dioxide are essential when studying climate change. In this work, we try to improve measurements of carbon dioxide from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 by using better informed aerosol priors from an atmospheric model. We find that this makes the carbon dioxide measurements slightly more accurate and that certain ways of using modeled aerosol information are more promising than others.