ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci): Column averaged carbon dioxide from OCO-2 generated with the FOCAL algorithm, version 08

This dataset contains column-average dry-air mole fractions of atmospheric carbon dioxide (XCO2), using the fast atmospheric trace gas retrieval for OCO2 (FOCAL-OCO2). The FOCAL-OCO2 algorithm which has been setup to retrieve XCO2 by analysing hyper spectral solar backscattered radiance measurements from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) satellite. FOCAL includes a radiative transfer model which has been developed to approximate light scattering effects by multiple scattering at an optically thin scattering layer. This reduces the computational costs by several orders of magnitude. FOCAL's radiative transfer model is utilised to simulate the radiance in all three OCO-2 spectral bands allowing the simultaneous retrieval of CO2, H2O, and solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence. The product is limited to cloud-free scenes on the Earth's day side. This dataset is also referred to as CO2_OC2_FOCA.



This version of the data was produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA)

Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Greenhouse Gases (GHG) project (GHG-CCI+, http://cci.esa.int/ghg)

and got co-funding from the Univ. Bremen and EU H2020 projects CHE (grant agreement no. 776186) and VERIFY (grant agreement no. 776810).



When citing this dataset, please also cite the following peer-review publications:



M.Reuter, M.Buchwitz, O.Schneising, S.Noël, V.Rozanov, H.Bovensmann and J.P.Burrows: A Fast Atmospheric Trace Gas Retrieval for Hyperspectral Instruments Approximating Multiple Scattering - Part 1: Radiative Transfer and a Potential OCO-2 XCO2 Retrieval Setup, Remote Sensing, 9(11), 1159; doi:10.3390/rs9111159, 2017



M.Reuter, M.Buchwitz, O.Schneising, S.Noël, H.Bovensmann and J.P.Burrows: A Fast Atmospheric Trace Gas Retrieval for Hyperspectral Instruments Approximating Multiple Scattering - Part 2: Application to XCO2 Retrievals from OCO-2, Remote Sensing, 9(11), 1102; doi:10.3390/rs9111102, 2017

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2020-03-31T16:10:44
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2020-03-31T16:10:44
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Reuter, M.

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Buchwitz, M.

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Schneising, O.

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Bovensmann, H.

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Burrows, J. P.

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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Begin date
2015-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2018-12-30T23:59:59
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WGS 84
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b06213c3f3934a689f89ab22aa50e471

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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ghg/data/cci_plus/CO2_OC2_FOCA/v8.0

DOWNLOAD
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https://climate.esa.int/sites/default/files/PUGv2_GHG-CCI_CO2_OC2_FOCA_v08.pdf

Product user guide
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https://climate.esa.int/

ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/11/1159

M.Reuter, M.Buchwitz, O.Schneising, S.Noel, V.Rozanov, H.Bovensmann and J.P.Burrows: A Fast Atmospheric Trace Gas Retrieval for Hyperspectral Instruments Approximating Multiple Scattering - Part 1: Radiative Transfer and a Potential OCO-2 XCO2 Retrieval Setup Remote Sensing, 9(11), 1159; doi:10.3390/rs9111159, 2017

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http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/11/1102

Reuter, M., M. Buchwitz, O. Schneising, S. Noel, H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows, A Fast Atmospheric Trace Gas Retrieval for Hyperspectral Instruments Approximating Multiple Scattering - Part 2: Application to XCO2 Retrievals from OCO-2, Remote Sens., 9, 1102, doi:10.3390/rs9111102, 2017.

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https://climate.esa.int/projects/ghgs/

Greenhouse Gases CCI project
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/sites/default/files/ATBDv1_OCO2_FOCAL.pdf

M. Reuter, M. Buchwitz, O. Schneising, H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows: Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document Version 1 (ATBDv1) - Retrieval of XCO2 from the OCO-2 satellite using the Fast Atmospheric Trace Gas Retrieval (FOCAL) ESA Climate Change Initiative “Plus” (CCI+), 2019

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Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/carbon_ghg/docs/GHG-CCIplus/PSD/PSDv3_GHG-CCI_final.pdf

GHG-CCI project team: Product Specification Document Version 3 (PSDv3) for the Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Greenhouse Gases (GHG) - Description of Common Parameters for core (ECA) products ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI), 2014

OnLine resource
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https://climate.esa.int/sites/default/files/E3UBv1_GHG-CCI_CO2_OC2_FOCA_v08.pdf

M.Reuter and the GHG-CCI group at IUP: End-to-End ECV Uncertainty Budget Version 1 (E3UBv1) for the FOCAL XCO2 OCO-2 Data Product CO2_OC2_FOCA for the Essential Climate Variable (ECV) Greenhouse Gases (GHG) ESA Climate Change Initiative “Plus” (CCI+), 2020

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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

This version of the data was produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA)

Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Greenhouse Gases (GHG) project (GHG-CCI+, http://cci.esa.int/ghg)

and got co-funding from the Univ. Bremen and EU H2020 projects CHE (grant agreement no. 776186) and VERIFY (grant agreement no. 776810).

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ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci) dataset collection

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2026-02-08T03:21:10
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UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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