Update on GOSAT TANSO-FTS performance, operations, and data products after  more than 6 years in space

Kuze, Akihiko; Suto, Hiroshi; Shiomi, Kei; Kawakami, Shuji; Tanaka, Makoto; Ueda, Yoko; Deguchi, Akira; Yoshida, Jun; Yamamoto, Yoshifumi; Kataoka, Fumie; Taylor, Thomas E.; Buijs, Henry L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2445-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2445-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2445-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 6

Research article

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02 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 02 Jun 2016

Update on GOSAT TANSO-FTS performance, operations, and data products after more than 6 years in space

Akihiko Kuze, Hiroshi Suto, Kei Shiomi, Shuji Kawakami, Makoto Tanaka, Yoko Ueda, Akira Deguchi, Jun Yoshida, Yoshifumi Yamamoto, Fumie Kataoka, Thomas E. Taylor, and Henry L. Buijs

Data sets

GOSAT User Interface Gateway (GUIG) National Institute for Environmental Studies http://data.gosat.nies.go.jp/GosatUserInterfaceGateway/guig/GuigPage/open.do

GOSAT TANSO-FTS data analysis Atmospheric CO2 Observations from Space (ACOS) Team http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/acdisc/documentation/ACOS.htmlyou

Short summary

A more than 6-year data set has been acquired by TANSO-FTS onboard GOSAT. This paper provides updates on the performance and describes important changes to the data product for the typical accuracy of retrieved CO₂ and CH₄ of 2 ppm and 13 ppb, respectively. The V201 Level 1B have long-term uniform quality and provide consistent retrieval accuracy even after the three anomalies of the satellite system. In addition, we discuss the unique observation abilities by an agile pointing mechanism.