The Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparison and quality assessment of near-surface-sensitive satellite-derived CO2 and CH4 global data sets

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 344-362

  Buchwitz, M ^b   Reuter, M ^b   Schneising, O ^b   Boesch, H ^c   Guerlet, S ^d   Dils, B ^e   Aben, I ^d   Armante, R ^g   Bergamaschi, P ^k   Blumenstock, T ^h   Bovensmann, H ^b   Brunner, D ⁱ   Buchmann, B ⁱ   Burrows, J P ^b   Butz, A ^h   Chedin A ^g   Chevallier, F ^j   Crevoisier, C D ^g   Deutscher, N M ^b,q   Frankenberg, C ^a,l   Hase, F ^h   Hasekamp, O P ^d   Heymann, J ^b   Kaminski, T ^m   Laeng, A ^h   Lichtenberg, G ^f   De Maziere M ^e   Noel S ^b   Notholt, J ^b   Orphal, J ^h   Popp, C ⁱ   Parker, R ^c   Scholze, M ^m,n   Sussmann, R ^h   Stiller, G P ^h   Warneke, T ^b   Zehner, C ^o   Bril, A ^p   Crisp, D ^l   Griffith, D W T ^q   Kuze, A ^r   O'Dell, C ^s   Oshchepkov, S ^p   Sherlock, V ^t   Suto, H ^r   Wennberg, P ^u   Wunch, D ^u   Yokota, T ^p   Yoshida, Y ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

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

^j JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l FastOpt GmbH   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^p UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^q JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

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

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

^t CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^u NONE

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Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; GOSAT; Greenhouse gases; Methane; SCIAMACHY

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; ROUTERS; SATELLITES;

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GOSAT; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SCIAMACHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84929061664     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.024     Document Type: Article

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