Articles | Volume 8, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-5023-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-5023-2015
Research article
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01 Dec 2015
Research article |  | 01 Dec 2015

Accurate mobile remote sensing of XCO2 and XCH4 latitudinal transects from aboard a research vessel

F. Klappenbach, M. Bertleff, J. Kostinek, F. Hase, T. Blumenstock, A. Agusti-Panareda, M. Razinger, and A. Butz

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Measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane total vertical column abundance from onboard the research vessel "RV Polarstern" in March / April 2014. Along the journey on the Atlantic from Cape Town (South Africa) to Bremerhaven (Germany) we could reproduce the interhemispheric gradient of the target gases, and we compared the measurements with satellite and model data. Future campaigns could use the new mobility to characterize sources and sinks of carbon-dioxide and methane.