Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) global satellite observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane
- Paper number
IAC-18,B1,IP,13,x42985
- Author
Dr. Michael Buchwitz, Germany, University of Bremen
- Year
2018
- Abstract
Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are important atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG) and, therefore, classified as Essential Climate Variables (ECVs). Previously, satellite-derived atmospheric CO2 and methane CH4 ECV data sets have been generated and made available via the GHG-CCI project of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI, http://www.esa-ghg-cci.org/). The latest GHG-CCI data set, Climate Research Data Package No. 4 (CRDP 4), covers the time period 2003-2015 and is available since February 2017. Currently, the production and provision of these data sets is being continued operationally via the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S, https://climate.copernicus.eu/), which is implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on behalf of the European Commission. The C3S satellite greenhouse gas (GHG) sub-project is led by University of Bremen supported by University of Leicester (UK), SRON (The Netherlands) and CNRS-LMD (France). The first Climate Data Record (CDR) data set produced and delivered within the C3S framework covers the time period 2003-2016 and consists of column-average dry-air mole fraction CO2 and CH4 products, i.e., XCO2 and XCH4, from SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT and TANSO-FTS/GOSAT. Furthermore, mid-tropospheric CO2 and CH4 mixing ratios from IASI Metop-A and Metop-B are part of this data set and mid-tropospheric CO2 from AIRS. These data products will be made available in April/May 2018 via the Climate Data Store (CDS) of C3S. An overview about this new Earth Observation data set will be presented.
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