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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-683-2016
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-683-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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29 Feb 2016
Research article |
| 29 Feb 2016
Consistent evaluation of ACOS-GOSAT, BESD-SCIAMACHY, CarbonTracker, and MACC through comparisons to TCCON
Susan Kulawik
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Bay Area Environm. Res. Inst., Sonoma, CA 95476, USA
Debra Wunch
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Christopher O'Dell
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Christian Frankenberg
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA, USA
Maximilian Reuter
University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen,
Germany
Tomohiro Oda
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Universities Space
Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Frederic Chevallier
Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau, France
Vanessa Sherlock
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington and
Lauder, New Zealand
Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau, France
Michael Buchwitz
University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen,
Germany
Greg Osterman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA, USA
Charles E. Miller
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA, USA
Paul O. Wennberg
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
David Griffith
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Isamu Morino
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Manvendra K. Dubey
Earth and Environmental Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los
Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Nicholas M. Deutscher
University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen,
Germany
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Justus Notholt
University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen,
Germany
Frank Hase
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and
Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe, Germany
Thorsten Warneke
University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen,
Germany
Ralf Sussmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and
Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe, Germany
John Robinson
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington and
Lauder, New Zealand
Kimberly Strong
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Matthias Schneider
Earth and Environmental Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los
Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Martine De Mazière
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Kei Shiomi
Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Dietrich G. Feist
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Laura T. Iraci
NASA Ames Research Center, Atmospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field,
CA, USA
Joyce Wolf
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA, USA
retired
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RC C2148: 'Review of "Consistent evaluation of GOSAT SCIAMACHY, CarbonTracker, and MACC through comparisons to TCCON" by Kulawik et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Jul 2015
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RC C2594: 'Review of Consistent evaluation of GOSAT, SCIAMACHY, CarbonTracker, and MACC through comparisons to TCCON by Kulawik et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Aug 2015
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AC C4258: 'Response to reviewers', Susan Kulawik, 10 Dec 2015
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AC C4258: 'Response to reviewers', Susan Kulawik, 10 Dec 2015
Short summary
To accurately estimate source and sink locations of carbon dioxide, systematic errors in satellite measurements and models must be characterized. This paper examines two satellite data sets (GOSAT, launched 2009, and SCIAMACHY, launched 2002), and two models (CarbonTracker and MACC) vs. the TCCON CO2 validation data set. We assess biases and errors by season and latitude, satellite performance under averaging, and diurnal variability. Our findings are useful for assimilation of satellite data.
To accurately estimate source and sink locations of carbon dioxide, systematic errors in...
