NDLI: A Comparison of <italic>In Situ</italic> Aircraft Measurements of Carbon Dioxide and Methane to GOSAT Data Measured Over Railroad Valley Playa, Nevada, USA

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Author	Tadic, J.M. Loewenstein, M. Frankenberg, C. Butz, A. Roby, M. Iraci, L.T. Yates, E.L. Gore, W. Kuze, A.
Copyright Year	1980
Abstract	In this paper, we report the vertical profiles of CO₂ and CH₄ measured with a cavity ring-down spectrometer (CRDS) on a research aircraft from near-ground level to 8 km above mean sea level. The airborne platform employed in this paper is an Alpha Jet aircraft operated from NASA's Ames Research Center. Flights were undertaken to Railroad Valley, NV, USA, to coincide with overpasses of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). Ground-based CO₂ and CH₄ were simultaneously measured using CRDS, at the time and location of the airborne and satellite measurements. Results of three GOSAT coordinated aircraft profiles and ground-based measurements in June 2011 are presented and discussed in this paper. The accuracy of the CO₂ and CH₄ measurements has been determined based upon laboratory calibrations (World Meteorological Organisation traceable standard) and pressure/temperature flight simulations in a test chamber. The overall uncertainty for the airborne measurements ranged from 0.31 to 0.39 ppm for CO₂ and from 3.5 to 5.6 ppb for CH₄. Our column-averaged CO₂ and CH₄ measurements, which include about 61% of the total atmospheric mass, are extrapolated, using different techniques, to include the remainder of the tropospheric and stratospheric CO₂ and CH₄. The CO₂ data are then analyzed using the Atmospheric CO₂ Observations from Space 2.9 and 3.3 algorithms. For methane data, the RemoTeC v2.1 algorithm was used in its full physics setup. Column-averaged CO₂ and XCO₂, measured by GOSAT and analyzed from our data, ranged from 388.1 to 396.4 ppm, and XCH₄ ranged from 1.743 to 1.822 ppm. The agreement of the satellite and aircraft CO₂ mixing ratios, as well as ground measurements, falls within the uncertainties of the methods employed to acquire these numbers.
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Volume Number	52
Issue Number	12
Language	English
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Subject Keyword	Instruments Atmospheric measurements Aircraft Standards Extraterrestrial measurements Sea measurements Cavity resonators remote sensing Air pollution atmosphere atmospheric measurements calibration Earth observing system measurement techniques
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Subject	Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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