Quantifying lower tropospheric methane concentrations using GOSAT near-IR and TES thermal IR measurements

Worden, J. R.; Turner, A. J.; Bloom, A.; Kulawik, S. S.; Liu, J.; Lee, M.; Weidner, R.; Bowman, K.; Frankenberg, C.; Parker, R.; Payne, V. H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3433-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3433-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3433-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 8

Research article

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25 Aug 2015

Research article |

| 25 Aug 2015

Quantifying lower tropospheric methane concentrations using GOSAT near-IR and TES thermal IR measurements

J. R. Worden, A. J. Turner, A. Bloom, S. S. Kulawik, J. Liu, M. Lee, R. Weidner, K. Bowman, C. Frankenberg, R. Parker, and V. H. Payne

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RC C1162: 'Review comment on Worden AMTD', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 May 2015
- AC C1709: 'response to reviewers', John Worden, 27 Jun 2015
RC C1165: 'reviewer of quantifying lower tropospheric CH4 from GOSAT near-IR CH4 total column and TES TIR CH4 by Worden et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 May 2015
- AC C1705: 'review of manuscript', John Worden, 27 Jun 2015

Short summary

Here we demonstrate the potential for estimating lower tropospheric CH4 concentrations through the combination of free-tropospheric methane measurements from the Aura Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) and XCH4 (dry-mole air fraction of methane) from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite - Thermal And Near-infrared for carbon Observation (GOSAT TANSO).