CoMet: An airborne mission to simultaneously measure CO2 and CH4 using lidar, passive remote sensing and in-situ techniques


Andreas Fix1, Axel Amediek1, Christian Büdenbender2, Gerhard Ehret1, Christoph Kiemle1, Mathieu Quatrevalet3, Markus Rapp4, Martin Wirth4, Heinrich Bovensmann5, Andre Butz6, Christoph Gerbig7, Akihiko Kuze8, Patrick Joeckel9, Julia Marshall7, Jaroslaw M. Necki10, Klaus Pfeilsticker11, Anke Roiger1, Justyna Swolkień12, Martin Zöger13 and The CoMet team, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (5)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (6)Heidelberg University, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, (7)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Signals, Jena, Germany, (8)GoRadS, INC., Tokyo, Japan, (9)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (10)AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Krakow, Poland, (11)Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Umweltphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (12)AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering, Kraków, Poland, (13)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Flight Experiments, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany