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            https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5317-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5317-2019
                    © Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under 
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
                the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Validation of OCO-2 error analysis using simulated retrievals
Susan S. Kulawik
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                                            Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, CA, USA
                                        
                                    Chris O'Dell
                                            Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
                                        
                                    Robert R. Nelson
                                            Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
                                        
                                    
                                            now at: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
                                        
                                    Thomas E. Taylor
                                            Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
                                        
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Short summary
            This work investigates errors in CO2 near-infrared estimates retrieved from simulated radiances. We find that interferent errors are underpredicted and that nonlinearity causes significant errors.
            This work investigates errors in CO2 near-infrared estimates retrieved from simulated radiances....