GOSAT TANSO
Satellite observation of atmospheric methane: intercomparison between AIRS and GOSAT TANSO-FTS retrievals
... the TANSO-Cloud and Aerosol Imager ...the TANSO-FTS TIR spectra in the window ...of TANSO-FTS at around the 7–8 µm band are estimated to be 70–100, and the measurement co- variance matrix used in the ...
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A high-level cloud detection method utilizing the GOSAT TANSO-FTS water vapor saturated band
... classification. GOSAT has been operating since April 2009 with a 3-day repeat cycle for a pointwise geolocation pattern, providing a spectral data record that exceeds 9 ...from GOSAT TANSO-FTS ...
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Comparison of the GOSAT TANSO-FTS TIR CH 4volume mixing ratio vertical profiles with those measured by ACE-FTS, ESA MIPAS, IMK-IAA MIPAS, and 16 NDACC stations
... from GOSAT TANSO-FTS are available upon request and accessed through appropriate Web ...the TANSO-FTS TIR CH4 VMR vertical profiles was provided through the GOSAT User Interface Gateway: ...
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Bias assessment of lower and middle tropospheric CO 2 concentrations of GOSAT/TANSO-FTS TIR version 1 product
... of GOSAT/TANSO-FTS TIR CO 2 data and a priori CO 2 data against CME_AK CO 2 data over Narita airport and the 1σ standard deviations for each retrieval layer and season in ...
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Methane cross-validation between three Fourier transform spectrometers: SCISAT ACE-FTS, GOSAT TANSO-FTS, and ground-based FTS measurements in the Canadian high Arctic
... tory of spaceborne methane measurements is included in the broad review by Thies and Bendix (2011), with consider- ably more detail in the slightly older review by Bréon and Ciais (2010). Spaceborne methane measurements ...
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On the zero-level offset in the GOSAT TANSO-FTS O2 A band and the quality of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF): comparison of SIF between GOSAT and OCO-2
... the GOSAT spectra con- sists of SIF and the zero-level offset, and thus correction for the zero-level offset is required to derive SIF (SIF is equal to the filling-in signal minus the zero-level offset, ...
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Update on GOSAT TANSO-FTS performance, operations, and data products after more than 6 years in space
... down zero crossings of laser fringes (half laser fringe) are uti- lized for sampling triggers, which result in 76 336 sampling points per interferogram. A fringe counter counts fringes up in the forward scan direction ...
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Algorithm update of the GOSAT/TANSO-FTS thermal infrared CO 2product (version 1) and validation of the UTLS CO2 data using CONTRAIL measurements
... Acknowledgements. We thank all of the members of the GOSAT Science Team and their associates. We are also grateful to the engineers of Japan Airlines, the JAL Foundation, and JAMCO Tokyo for supporting the ...
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Validation of XCH 4derived from SWIR spectra of GOSAT TANSO-FTS with aircraft measurement data
... scale, which was higher than NOAA 04 scale by 3.5–4.6 ppb in the range between 1750 and 1840 ppb (Terao et al., 2011). Aircraft measurements obtained by the HIAPER Pole-to- Pole Observations (HIPPO) project are also ...
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The ACOS CO 2retrieval algorithm – Part II: Global XCO 2
... improvements in the overall yield and, more importantly, lat- itude coverage, will be needed before these space based mea- surements can reach their full potential. The ACOS B2.9 product addresses this objective to some ...
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Information content analysis: the potential for methane isotopologue retrieval from GOSAT-2
... original GOSAT mission launched in 2009. GOSAT-2, like GOSAT, is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Na- tional ...
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Using ocean-glint scattered sunlight as a diagnostic tool for satellite remote sensing of greenhouse gases
... Abstract. Spectroscopic measurements of sunlight backscat- tered by the Earth’s surface is a technique widely used for re- mote sensing of atmospheric constituent concentrations from space. Thereby, remote sensing of ...
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Consistent satellite XCO 2retrievals from SCIAMACHY and GOSAT using the BESD algorithm
... of TANSO-FTS are performed in two gain modes, medium (M) and high (H), used accord- ing to the measured level of ...ground), TANSO- FTS can measure ± 35 ◦ across track and ± 20 ◦ along ...
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Aircraft measurements of carbon dioxide and methane for the calibration of ground-based high-resolution Fourier Transform Spectrometers and a comparison to GOSAT data measured over Tsukuba and Moshiri
... onboard GOSAT are the Thermal And Near-infrared Sensor for car- bon Observation Fourier Transform Spectrometer (TANSO- FTS) and the TANSO Cloud and Aerosol Imager (TANSO- CAI) (Kuze et ...
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Regional uncertainty of GOSAT XCO 2retrievals in China: quantification and attribution
... Kulawik, S., Wunch, D., O’Dell, C., Frankenberg, C., Reuter, M., Oda, T., Chevallier, F., Sherlock, V., Buchwitz, M., Osterman, G., Miller, C. E., Wennberg, P. O., Griffith, D., Morino, I., Dubey, M. K., Deutscher, N. ...
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carbon dioxide and methane retrieved from GOSAT short-wavelength infrared spectra
... TANSO-FTS observes solar light reflected from the earth’s surface as well as the thermal radiance emitted from the at- mosphere and the surface. The former (SWIR region) is ob- served in bands 1 to 3 of the FTS in ...
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Investigating the performance of a greenhouse gas observatory in Hefei, China
... In this paper a high-resolution FTS dedicated to near- continuous observation of solar spectra deployed in Hefei, China is described. At present the observation project at the Hefei site may be one of the few operations ...
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Global monitoring of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence from moderate-spectral-resolution near-infrared satellite measurements: methodology, simulations, and application to GOME-2
... from GOSAT that are processed with a less complex algorithm, providing further confidence in our approach and implementation with real ...published GOSAT and SCIAMACHY ...
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data to ground-based data and its application to ACOS-GOSAT and TCCON
... In this paper, we assess the performance of different colo- cation methods on ACOS-GOSAT data by comparing colo- cated values to the more precise and accurate TCCON data. We use the v3.3 release of ...
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A simple empirical model estimating atmospheric CO 2background concentrations
... Typi- cal column averaging kernels of the TCCON FTS, a SCIA- MACHY (Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric CHartographY), and two GOSAT (Greenhouse gases Observing SATe[r] ...
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