Calibration of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network using aircraft profile data
Debra Wunch,Geoffrey C. Toon,Paul O. Wennberg,Steven C. Wofsy,Britton B. Stephens,Marc Fischer,Osamu Uchino,James B. Abshire,Peter F. Bernath,Peter F. Bernath,Sébastien C. Biraud,Jean-Francois Blavier,Chris D. Boone,Kenneth P. Bowman,Edward V. Browell,Teresa Campos,Brian J. Connor,Bruce C. Daube,Nicholas M. Deutscher,Minghui Diao,James W. Elkins,Christoph Gerbig,Elaine Gottlieb,David W. T. Griffith,Dale F. Hurst,Dale F. Hurst,Rodrigo Jimenez,Rodrigo Jimenez,Gretchen Keppel-Aleks,Eric A. Kort,R. Macatangay,Toshinobu Machida,Hidekazu Matsueda,Fred L. Moore,Isamu Morino,Sunyoung Park,John Robinson,Coleen M. Roehl,Yusuke Sawa,Vanessa Sherlock,Colm Sweeney,Tomoaki Tanaka,Mark A. Zondlo +42 more
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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.Abstract:
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) produces precise measurements of the column av- erage dry-air mole fractions of CO2, CO, CH4, N2O and H2O at a variety of sites worldwide. These observations rely on spectroscopic parameters that are not known with suffi- cient accuracy to compute total columns that can be used in combination with in situ measurements. The TCCON must therefore be calibrated to World Meteorological Orga- nization (WMO) in situ trace gas measurement scales. We present a calibration of TCCON data using WMO-scale in- strumentation aboard aircraft that measured profiles over four TCCON stations during 2008 and 2009. These calibrations are compared with similar observations made in 2004 and 2006. The results indicate that a single, global calibration factor for each gas accurately captures the TCCON total col- umn data within error.read more
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