Geoffrey C. Toon

TL;DR: The TCCON provides a link between satellite measurements and the extensive ground-based in situ network and achieves an accuracy and precision in total column measurements that is unprecedented for remote-sensing observations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that global spaceborne observations of solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence exhibited a strong linear correlation with gross primary production (GPP) and showed that the fluorescence emission even without any additional climatic or model information has the same or better predictive skill in estimating GPP as those derived from traditional remotely-sensed vegetation indices using ancillary data and model assumptions.

TL;DR: The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) as mentioned in this paper is the first global, space-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) with the precision, resolution and coverage needed to characterize CO 2 sources and sinks on regional scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a calibration of TCCON data using WMO-scale in-strumentation aboard aircraft that measured profiles over four Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) stations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large number of isotopic data sets (four satellite, sixteen ground-based remote-sensing, five surface in situ and three aircraft data sets) are analyzed to determine how H2O and HDO measurements in water vapor can be used to detect and diagnose biases in the representation of processes controlling tropospheric humidity in atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs).