Effects of atmospheric light scattering on spectroscopic observations of greenhouse gases from space. Part 2: Algorithm intercomparison in the GOSAT data processing for CO2 retrievals over TCCON sites

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1493-1512

  Oshchepkov, Sergey ^a   Bril, Andrey ^a   Yokota, Tatsuya ^a   Wennberg, Paul O ^b   Deutscher, Nicholas M ^c,d   Wunch, Debra ^b   Toon, Geoffrey C ^e   Yoshida, Yukio ^a   O'Dell, Christopher W ^f   Crisp, David ^e   Miller, Charles E ^e   Frankenberg, Christian ^e   Butz, André ^g   Aben, Ilse ^h   Guerlet, Sandrine ^h   Hasekamp, Otto ^h   Boesch, Hartmut ⁱ   Cogan, Austin ⁱ   Parker, Robert ⁱ   Griffith, David ^c   Macatangay, Ronald ^c   Notholt, Justus ^d   Sussmann, Ralf ^g   Rettinger, Markus ^g   Sherlock, Vanessa ^j   Robinson, John ^j   Kyrö, Esko ^k   Heikkinen, Pauli ^k   Feist, Dietrich G ^l   Morino, Isamu ^a   Kadygrov, Nikolay ^m   Belikov, Dmitry ^a   Maksyutov, Shamil ^a   Matsunaga, Tsuneo ^a   Uchino, Osamu ^a   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^k FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^m LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

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Author keywords

GOSAT algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DATA PROCESSING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIGHT SCATTERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES OBSERVING SATELLITES; GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING; PATH MODIFICATIONS; PHOTON PATH LENGTH; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GOSAT; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 84880299854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50146     Document Type: Article

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