Towards an optimal strategy for joint assimilation of in situ and remote sensing measurements of CO2 and CH4


Arlyn Andrews1, Lei Hu2, Michael Trudeau3, Colm Sweeney4, Kirk W Thoning5, Bianca Baier6, Kathryn McKain4, John B Miller4, Yuanyuan Fang7, Yoichi Paolo Shiga8, Anna Michalak9, Marikate Ellis Mountain10, Thomas Nehrkorn11, Doug Worthy12, Paul O Wennberg13, Debra Wunch14, Coleen Marie Roehl15, Christopher O'Dell16, Susan Kulawik17 and Eric L Fleming18, (1)NOAA/ESRL, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA, Boulder, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, United States, (7)Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, (8)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (9)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, (10)Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, United States, (11)AER Inc, Lexington, MA, United States, (12)Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (13)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (14)University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (15)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (16)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (17)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (18)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States