Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-935-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-935-2019
Data description paper
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04 Jul 2019
Data description paper |  | 04 Jul 2019

Satellite and ground-based measurements of XCO2 in a remote semiarid region of Australia

Voltaire A. Velazco, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Isamu Morino, Osamu Uchino, Beata Bukosa, Masataka Ajiro, Akihide Kamei, Nicholas B. Jones, Clare Paton-Walsh, and David W. T. Griffith

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Column averaged dry mole fractions of carbon dioxide in Alice Springs, Australia Voltaire A. Velazco, Nicholas M. Deutscher, David W. T Griffith https://doi.org/10.4225/48/5b21f16ce69bc

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We present ground-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide columns from a portable spectrometer taken in a semiarid region of Australia. We compared these measurements to space-based retrievals from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) and calibrated them against a Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) instrument to ascertain a retrieval bias. We also present the unique opportunities that Central Australia could offer in the context of satellite product validation.