Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4751-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4751-2020
Research article
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09 Sep 2020
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2020

Intercomparison of atmospheric CO2 and CH4 abundances on regional scales in boreal areas using Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) analysis, COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON) spectrometers, and Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite observations

Qiansi Tu, Frank Hase, Thomas Blumenstock, Rigel Kivi, Pauli Heikkinen, Mahesh Kumar Sha, Uwe Raffalski, Jochen Landgraf, Alba Lorente, Tobias Borsdorff, Huilin Chen, Florian Dietrich, and Jia Chen

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MLS/Aura Level 2 Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Mixing Ratio V004 A. Lambert, N. Livesey, and W. Read https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/ML2N2O_004/summary

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Two COCCON instruments are used to observe multiyear greenhouse gases in boreal areas and are compared with the CAMS analysis and S5P satellite data. These three datasets predict greenhouse gas gradients with reasonable agreement. The results indicate that the COCCON instrument has the capability of measuring gradients on regional scales, and observations performed with the portable spectrometers can contribute to inferring sources and sinks and to validating spaceborne greenhouse gases.