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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Année : 2017

Probabilistic global maps of the CO 2 column at daily and monthly scales from sparse satellite measurements

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The column-average dry air-mole fraction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (XCO 2) is measured by scattered satellite measurements like those from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2). We show that global continuous maps of XCO 2 (corresponding to level 3 of the satellite data) at daily or coarser temporal resolution can be inferred from these data with a Kalman filter built on a model of persistence. Our application of this approach on 2 years of OCO-2 retrievals indicates that the filter provides better information than a climatology of XCO 2 at both daily and monthly scales. Provided that the assigned observation uncertainty statistics are tuned in each grid cell of the XCO 2 maps from an objective method (based on consistency diagnostics), the errors predicted by the filter at daily and monthly scales represent the true error statistics reasonably well, except for a bias in the high latitudes of the winter hemisphere and a lack of resolution (i.e., a too small discrimination skill) of the predicted error standard deviations. Due to the sparse satellite sampling, the broad-scale patterns of XCO 2 described by the filter seem to lag behind the real signals by a few weeks. Finally, the filter offers interesting insights into the quality of the retrievals, both in terms of random and systematic errors.
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hal-02957316 , version 1 (08-10-2020)

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Frederic Chevallier, Grégoire Broquet, Clémence Pierangelo, David Crisp. Probabilistic global maps of the CO 2 column at daily and monthly scales from sparse satellite measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2017, 122 (14), pp.7614-7629. ⟨10.1002/2017JD026453⟩. ⟨hal-02957316⟩
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