Trace Gas Measurements from the GeoTASO and GCAS Airborne Instruments: An Instrument and Algorithm Test-Bed for Air Quality Observations from Geostationary Orbit

Caroline R Nowlan1, Xiong Liu1, Scott J Janz2, James W Leitch3, Jassim A Al-Saadi4, Kelly Chance5, Joshua Cole6, Thomas Delker6, Melanie B Follette-Cook2,7, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad5, William S Good6, Matthew G Kowalewski8, Christopher Loughner9,10, Kenneth E Pickering2, Lyle Ruppert6, Dan Soo6, James Szykman11, Luke Valin11 and Peter Zoogman5, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Ball Aerospace, Boulder, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Center (retired), Hampton, United States, (5)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Morgan State University, Baltimore, United States, (8)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (10)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, (11)Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States