Analysis of 3D cloud effects in OCO-2 XCO2 retrievals

Massie, Steven T.; Cronk, Heather; Merrelli, Aronne; O'Dell, Christopher; Schmidt, K. Sebastian; Chen, Hong; Baker, David

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1475-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1475-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1475-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 2

Research article

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25 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 25 Feb 2021

Analysis of 3D cloud effects in OCO-2 XCO2 retrievals

Steven T. Massie, Heather Cronk, Aronne Merrelli, Christopher O'Dell, K. Sebastian Schmidt, Hong Chen, and David Baker

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Final revised paper (published on 25 Feb 2021)
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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript 'Analysis of 3D Cloud Effects in OCO-2 XCO2 Retrievals' by Massie et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'reoly1 for AMT 366', Steven Massie, 09 Dec 2020
RC2: 'Review of manuscript by Massie et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Nov 2020
- AC2: 'reply2 for AMT 366', Steven Massie, 09 Dec 2020

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AR by Steven Massie on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2020)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (14 Jan 2021) by Bernhard Mayer

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 Jan 2021)

ED: Publish as is (19 Jan 2021) by Bernhard Mayer

AR by Steven Massie on behalf of the Authors (23 Jan 2021) Manuscript

Short summary

The OCO-2 science team is working to retrieve CO₂ measurements that can be used by the carbon cycle community to calculate regional sources and sinks of CO₂. The retrieved data, however, are in need of improvements in accuracy. This paper discusses several ways in which 3D cloud metrics (such as the distance of a measurement to the nearest cloud) can be used to account for cloud effects in the OCO-2 CO₂ data files.