Using airborne HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO)  to evaluate model and remote sensing estimates of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Frankenberg, Christian; Kulawik, Susan S.; Wofsy, Steven C.; Chevallier, Frédéric; Daube, Bruce; Kort, Eric A.; O'Dell, Christopher; Olsen, Edward T.; Osterman, Gregory

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7867-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7867-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7867-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 12

Research article

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27 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 27 Jun 2016

Using airborne HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) to evaluate model and remote sensing estimates of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Christian Frankenberg, Susan S. Kulawik, Steven C. Wofsy, Frédéric Chevallier, Bruce Daube, Eric A. Kort, Christopher O'Dell, Edward T. Olsen, and Gregory Osterman

Data sets

CarbonTracker CT2013B data Earth System Research Laboratory http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/carbontracker/

MACC data European Commission https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu

Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) data Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) http://tes.jpl.nasa.gov/data/

HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) data Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://hippo.ornl.gov/

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) data Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/uui/datasets?keywords=AIRS

CO2 Virtual Science Data Environment NASA/JPL http://co2.jpl.nasa.gov

Short summary

We use observations from the HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) flights from January 2009 through September 2011 to validate CO₂ measurements from satellites (GOSAT, TES, AIRS) and atmospheric inversion models (CarbonTracker CT2013B, MACC v13r1).