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Using XCO2 retrievals for assessing the long-term consistency of NDACC/FTIR data sets
Title: Using XCO2 retrievals for assessing the long-term consistency of NDACC/FTIR data sets
Authors: Barthlott, SabineSchneider, Matthias RESEARCHERID Hase, FrankWiegele, AndreasChristner, EmanuelGonzález Ramos, Yenny ORCID Autor AEMETBlumenstock, ThomasDohe, SusanneGarcía Rodríguez, Omaira Elena ORCID RESEARCHERID Autor AEMETSepúlveda Hernández, EliezerStrong, KimberlyMendonca, JosephWeaver, DanPalm, MathiasDeutscher, Nicholas MichaelWarneke, ThorstenNotholt, JustusLejeune, BernardMahieu, EmmanuelJones, NicholasGriffith, David W. T.Velazco, Voltaire A.Smale, DanRobinson, JohnKivi, RigelHeikkinen, PauliRaffalski, Uwe
Keywords: Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change; Atmospheric trace gases; Gases traza; XCO2
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
Citation: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 2015, 8(3), p. 1555-1573
Publisher version: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1555-2015
Abstract: Within the NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change), more than 20 FTIR (Fourier-transform infrared) spectrometers, spread worldwide, provide long-term data records of many atmospheric trace gases. We present a method that uses measured and modelled XCO2 for assessing the consistency of these NDACC data records. Our XCO2 retrieval setup is kept simple so that it can easily be adopted for any NDACC/FTIR-like measurement made since the late 1950s. By a comparison to coincident TCCON (Total Carbon Column Observing Network) measurements, we empirically demonstrate the useful quality of this suggested NDACC XCO2 product (empirically obtained scatter between TCCON and NDACC is about 4‰ for daily mean as well as monthly mean comparisons, and the bias is 25‰). Our XCO2 model is a simple regression model fitted to CarbonTracker results and the Mauna Loa CO2 in situ records. A comparison to TCCON data suggests an uncertainty of the model for monthly mean data of below 3‰. We apply the method to the NDACC/FTIR spectra that are used within the project MUSICA (multi-platform remote sensing of isotopologues for investigating the cycle of atmospheric water) and demonstrate that there is a good consistency for these globally representative set of spectra measured since 1996: the scatter between the modelled and measured XCO2 on a yearly time scale is only 3‰.
Sponsorship : This study has been conducted in the framework of the project MUSICA, which is funded by the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC Grant agreement number 256961.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/489
ISSN: 1867-1381
1867-8548
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