The strategy of GOSAT-2 Project for carbon cycle research
Abstract
Based on the success of Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) launched in 2009, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), together with Ministry of the Environment (MOE) and Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA), started the preparations for the follow-on satellite, GOSAT-2 in FY 2011. The current target launch year is FY2016. GOSAT-2 will be a transient mission between the experimental and technology proving satellite like GOSAT and the more operational future GOSAT satellites and has a critical role to realize MOE's long-term vision for space-based monitoring of concentration and emission of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs). The preparations for GOSAT-2 project currently ongoing at NIES include : 1) the strategy to obtain more precise estimates of the temporal and spatial average XCO2, XCH4, and CO2 flux in a shorter time period and smaller area than GOSAT, 2) the clarification of measurement requirements for new gas species such as carbon monoxide, 3) the strategy to utilize space-based measurement of atmospheric GHGs in Measuring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of carbon emission reducing efforts including Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD)+, 4) the strategy for the validation of XCO2 and other products in regions where there are no available ground based data for validation, 5) the design of more efficient and capable ground data processing system for GOSAT-2 than current GOSAT Data Handling Facility (GOSAT DHF) The current status above mentioned preparations will be presended and the strategy of GOSAT-2 project for carbon cycle research will be discussed.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012AGUFM.A33I0266M
- Keywords:
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- 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 0394 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE / Instruments and techniques;
- 0428 BIOGEOSCIENCES / Carbon cycling;
- 3360 ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES / Remote sensing