Retrieved wind speed from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2

Nelson, Robert R.; Eldering, Annmarie; Crisp, David; Merrelli, Aronne J.; O'Dell, Christopher W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6889-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6889-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6889-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Research article

|

18 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 18 Dec 2020

Retrieved wind speed from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2

Robert R. Nelson, Annmarie Eldering, David Crisp, Aronne J. Merrelli, and Christopher W. O'Dell

Data sets

OCO-2 Level 2 geolocated XCO2 retrievals results, physical model, Retrospective Processing V10r OCO-2 Science Team/Michael Gunson, and Annmarie Eldering https://doi.org/10.5067/6SBROTA57TFH

RtRetrievalFramework nasa https://github.com/nasa/RtRetrievalFramework

RT Retrieval Framework California Institute of Technology http://nasa.github.io/RtRetrievalFrameworkDoc/

Short summary

Measurements of surface wind speed over oceans are scientifically useful. Here we show that the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), originally designed to measure carbon dioxide using reflected sunlight, can also accurately and precisely measure wind speed. OCO-2's high spatial resolution means that it can observe close to coastlines and therefore be used to study coastal wind processes and inform related economic sectors.