A41I-0189
Temporal Characteristics of OCO-2 XCO2 and its Diagnostics
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Brendan Fisher1, Christopher O'Dell2, Lukas Mandrake1, Debra Wunch3, Gregory B Osterman1, Annmarie Eldering1 and OCO-2 Science Implementation Team, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Abstract:
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission has been collecting data for more than one year. We provide a look at the XCO2 and associated diagnostics from the v7 data release. During normal operations, OCO-2 gathers 20-30 million soundings per month, of which approximately 10% are selected for XCO2 retrievals. Of those selected, approximately 85% result in a converged retrieval, yielding ~1.5-3 million XCO2 soundings which are passed to the post-processing screening and bias correction algorithms. We examine temporal dependence of XCO2, spatial coverage, data quantity, and quality statistics. We also examine the bias correction, warn levels, and aerosols to quantify their temporal behavior over the OCO-2 mission so far.
