Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6889-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6889-2020
Research article
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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/

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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.