Articles | Volume 14, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3087-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3087-2021
Research article
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28 Apr 2021
Research article |  | 28 Apr 2021

Retrieval of atmospheric CO2 vertical profiles from ground-based near-infrared spectra

Sébastien Roche, Kimberly Strong, Debra Wunch, Joseph Mendonca, Colm Sweeney, Bianca Baier, Sébastien C. Biraud, Joshua L. Laughner, Geoffrey C. Toon, and Brian J. Connor

Data sets

TCCON data from Lamont (US), Release GGG2014.R1 P. O. Wennberg, D. Wunch, C. M. Roehl, J.-F. Blavier, G. C. Toon, and N. T. Allen https://doi.org/10.14291/tccon.ggg2014.lamont01.r1/1255070

TCCON data from East Trout Lake, SK (CA), Release GGG2014.R1 D. Wunch, J. Mendonca, O. Colebatch, N. T. Allen, J.-F. Blavier, S. Roche, J. Hedelius, G. Neufeld, S. Springett, D. Worthy, R. Kessler, and K. Strong https://doi.org/10.14291/tccon.ggg2014.easttroutlake01.r1

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Short summary
We evaluate CO2 profile retrievals from ground-based near-infrared solar absorption spectra after implementing several improvements to the GFIT2 retrieval algorithm. Realistic errors in the a priori temperature profile (~ 2 °C in the lower troposphere) are found to be the leading source of differences between the retrieved and true CO2 profiles, differences that are larger than typical CO2 variability. A temperature retrieval or correction is critical to improve CO2 profile retrieval results.