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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....
