Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5033-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5033-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
28 Sep 2020
Research article |
| 28 Sep 2020
| 28 Sep 2020
Quality controls, bias, and seasonality of CO2 columns in the boreal forest with Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, Total Carbon Column Observing Network, and EM27/SUN measurements
Nicole Jacobs
Department of Chemistry and the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
Department of Chemistry and the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
Debra Wunch
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Christopher W. O'Dell
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Gregory B. Osterman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Frank Hase
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology
and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Thomas Blumenstock
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology
and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Qiansi Tu
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology
and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Matthias Frey
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology
and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Manvendra K. Dubey
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Harrison A. Parker
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Rigel Kivi
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Sodankylä, Finland
Pauli Heikkinen
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Sodankylä, Finland
Data sets
Total Carbon Column Observing Network CaltechDATA https://tccondata.org/
Short summary
The boreal forest is the largest seasonally varying biospheric CO2-exchange region on Earth. This region is also undergoing amplified climate warming, leading to concerns about the potential for altered regional carbon exchange. Satellite missions, such as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) project, can measure CO2 abundance over the boreal forest but need validation for the assurance of accuracy. Therefore, we carried out a ground-based validation of OCO-2 CO2 data at three locations.
The boreal forest is the largest seasonally varying biospheric CO2-exchange region on Earth....
