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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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- Date (Publication)
- 2020-03-31T16:10:44
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-03-31T16:10:44
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b06213c3f3934a689f89ab22aa50e471
- Identifier
- doi / 10.5285/b06213c3f3934a689f89ab22aa50e471
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- dataset Dataset
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- greenhouse gases
- OCO
- OCO-2
- ESA
- CCI
- satellite
- CO2
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
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- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2015-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2018-12-30T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Product user guide
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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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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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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Greenhouse Gases CCI project
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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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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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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).
- File identifier
- b06213c3f3934a689f89ab22aa50e471 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci) dataset collection 0508f3dd991144aa80346007a415fb07
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:19:18
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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