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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2987-2014
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2987-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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17 Sep 2014
Validation of XCH4 derived from SWIR spectra of GOSAT TANSO-FTS with aircraft measurement data
M. Inoue, I. Morino, O. Uchino, Y. Miyamoto, T. Saeki, Y. Yoshida, T. Yokota, C. Sweeney, P. P. Tans, S. C. Biraud, T. Machida, J. V. Pittman, E. A. Kort, T. Tanaka, S. Kawakami, Y. Sawa, K. Tsuboi, and H. Matsueda
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
now at: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO, USA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO, USA
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, USA
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
now at: Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
now at: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Tsukuba, Japan
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Tsukuba, Japan
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract. Column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of methane (XCH4), retrieved from Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) spectra, were validated by using aircraft measurement data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), the HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) program, and the GOSAT validation aircraft observation campaign over Japan. In the calculation of XCH4 from aircraft measurements (aircraft-based XCH4), other satellite data were used for the CH4 profiles above the tropopause. We proposed a data-screening scheme for aircraft-based XCH4 for reliable validation of GOSAT XCH4. Further, we examined the impact of GOSAT SWIR column averaging kernels (CAK) on the aircraft-based XCH4 calculation and found that the difference between aircraft-based XCH4 with and without the application of the GOSAT CAK was less than ±9 ppb at maximum, with an average difference of −0.5 ppb.
We compared GOSAT XCH4 Ver. 02.00 data retrieved within ±2° or ±5° latitude–longitude boxes centered at each aircraft measurement site with aircraft-based XCH4 measured on a GOSAT overpass day. In general, GOSAT XCH4 was in good agreement with aircraft-based XCH4. However, over land, the GOSAT data showed a positive bias of 1.5 ppb (2.0 ppb) with a standard deviation of 14.9 ppb (16.0 ppb) within the ±2° (±5°) boxes, and over ocean, the average bias was 4.1 ppb (6.5 ppb) with a standard deviation of 9.4 ppb (8.8 ppb) within the ±2° (±5°) boxes. In addition, we obtained similar results when we used an aircraft-based XCH4 time series obtained by curve fitting with temporal interpolation for comparison with GOSAT data.
How to cite. Inoue, M., Morino, I., Uchino, O., Miyamoto, Y., Saeki, T., Yoshida, Y., Yokota, T., Sweeney, C., Tans, P. P., Biraud, S. C., Machida, T., Pittman, J. V., Kort, E. A., Tanaka, T., Kawakami, S., Sawa, Y., Tsuboi, K., and Matsueda, H.: Validation of XCH4 derived from SWIR spectra of GOSAT TANSO-FTS with aircraft measurement data, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2987–3005, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2987-2014, 2014.
Received: 25 Mar 2014 – Discussion started: 09 May 2014 – Revised: 12 Aug 2014 – Accepted: 12 Aug 2014 – Published: 17 Sep 2014