Temporal Characteristics of OCO-2 XCO2 and its Diagnostics
Abstract
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission has been collecting data for more than one year. We provide a look at the XCO2 and associated diagnostics from the v7 data release. During normal operations, OCO-2 gathers 20-30 million soundings per month, of which approximately 10% are selected for XCO2 retrievals. Of those selected, approximately 85% result in a converged retrieval, yielding ~1.5-3 million XCO2 soundings which are passed to the post-processing screening and bias correction algorithms. We examine temporal dependence of XCO2, spatial coverage, data quantity, and quality statistics. We also examine the bias correction, warn levels, and aerosols to quantify their temporal behavior over the OCO-2 mission so far.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015AGUFM.A41I0189O
- Keywords:
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- 0322 Constituent sources and sinks;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 3322 Land/atmosphere interactions;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES;
- 3360 Remote sensing;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES