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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5149-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5149-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
30 Sep 2020
Research article |
| 30 Sep 2020
| 30 Sep 2020
Validation of XCO2 and XCH4 retrieved from a portable Fourier transform spectrometer with those from in situ profiles from aircraft-borne instruments
Hirofumi Ohyama
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Isamu Morino
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Voltaire A. Velazco
Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk
Mgmt. Foundation Inc., Manila, Philippines
Theresa Klausner
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut
für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Gerry Bagtasa
Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology, University of
the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City, Philippines
Matthäus Kiel
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
Matthias Frey
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Akihiro Hori
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Osamu Uchino
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Tsuneo Matsunaga
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
Joshua P. DiGangi
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Yonghoon Choi
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Glenn S. Diskin
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Sally E. Pusede
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Alina Fiehn
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut
für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Anke Roiger
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut
für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Michael Lichtenstern
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut
für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Hans Schlager
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut
für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Pao K. Wang
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan
Charles C.-K. Chou
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan
Maria Dolores Andrés-Hernández
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen,
Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
John P. Burrows
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen,
Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Data sets
TCCON data from Tsukuba (JP), 125HR, Release GGG2014.R2 I. Morino, T. Matsuzaki, and M. Horikawa https://doi.org/10.14291/tccon.ggg2014.tsukuba02.r2
TCCON data from Burgos, Ilocos Norte (PH), Release GGG2014.R0 I. Morino, V. A. Velazco, A. Hori, O. Uchino, and D. W. T. Griffith https://doi.org/10.14291/tccon.ggg2014.burgos01.r0
TCCON data from Rikubetsu (JP), Release GGG2014.R2 I. Morino, N. Yokozeki, T. Matsuzaki, and M. Horikawa https://doi.org/10.14291/tccon.ggg2014.rikubetsu01.r2
Short summary
Column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of CO2 and CH4 measured by a solar viewing portable Fourier transform spectrometer (EM27/SUN) were validated with in situ profile data obtained during the transfer flights of two aircraft campaigns. Atmospheric dynamical properties based on ERA5 and WRF-Chem were used as criteria for selecting the best aircraft profiles for the validation. The resulting air-mass-independent correction factors for the EM27/SUN data were 0.9878 for CO2 and 0.9829 for CH4.
Column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of CO2 and CH4 measured by a solar viewing portable...
