The OCO-3 mission: measurement objectives and expected performance based on 1 year of simulated data

Eldering, Annmarie; Taylor, Thomas E.; O'Dell, Christopher W.; Pavlick, Ryan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2341-2019

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The OCO-3 mission: measurement objectives and expected performance based on 1 year of simulated data

Annmarie Eldering, Thomas E. Taylor, Christopher W. O'Dell, and Ryan Pavlick

Data sets

Simulated radiance and retrieved variables (XCO2 and SIF) for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) Mission (Version 1.0) A. Eldering https://doi.org/10.22002/d1.1222

Short summary

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) is scheduled for a 2019 launch to the International Space Station (ISS). It is expected to continue the record of column carbon dioxide (XCO₂) and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) measurements from space used to study and constrain the Earth's carbon cycle. This work highlights the measurement objectives and uses simulated data to show that the expected instrument performance is on par with that of OCO-2.