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Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3321-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-3321-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
Research article
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21 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 21 Jul 2025

A study of measurement scenarios for the future CO2M mission: avoidance of detector saturation and the impact on XCO2 retrievals

Michael Weimer, Michael Hilker, Stefan Noël, Max Reuter, Michael Buchwitz, Blanca Fuentes Andrade, Rüdiger Lang, Bernd Sierk, Yasjka Meijer, Heinrich Bovensmann, John P. Burrows, and Hartmut Bösch

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Optical detectors have a maximum signal (saturation). Exceedance means that the measurement has to be discarded. We investigate where saturation will occur for the future European satellite mission dedicated to CO2 monitoring (CO2M) and strategies to avoid saturation. Saturation impacts coverage and precision, both of which are important for estimation of local CO2 emissions. We find that taking two pictures per sampling should be sufficient to avoid saturation for CO2M, with some impact on CO2 precision.
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