Monitoring carbon dioxide from (AIRS) over Iraq during 2003-2016

The Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) gas is one of the most important greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Investigation of increasing concentration of CO₂ in global the atmosphere is the most pressing environmental concern of present and coming decades. The increasing of CO₂ has a significant impact on climate change, the Climate change can only be controlled through a significant lowering in carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. CO₂ emissions were studied in Iraq and period (2003-2016) and were used atmospheric Infrared sounder (AIRS) data, onboard NASA's Aqua Satellite. In order to know the behavior of CO₂ distribution in Iraq use analysis of trends in seven stations: Mosul, Sulaimaniyah, Rutba, Baghdad, Nukhayb, Nasiriyah and Basra). The average monthly and standard deviation was (389 ± 1.08 ppm) for the entire study period. The maximum values occur during April - May (391.4, 391.8 ppm) over Nukhayb and Rutba respectively, whereas the minimum values observed during September- October (387.1, 387 ppm) over Nasiriyah and Basra. Monthly distributions for CO₂ show seasonal fluctuations between spring and autumn, the highest value of CO₂ is in the spring and lowest in autumn for the entire study period. The increase was apparent from the trend analysis for entire of the period (2003-2016).