Atmospheric Measurement Techniques www.atmos-meas-tech.net 1867-1381 1867-8548 3 1 2010 10.5194/amt-3-209-2010 http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/3/209/2010/ http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/3/209/2010/amt-3-209-2010.html http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/3/209/2010/amt-3-209-2010.pdf 209 232 2010-02-12 A method for improved SCIAMACHY CO₂ retrieval in the presence of optically thin clouds M. Reuter maximilian.reuter@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de M. Buchwitz O. Schneising J. Heymann H. Bovensmann J. P. Burrows University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, P.O. Box 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany An optimal estimation based retrieval scheme for satellite based retrievals of XCO₂ (the dry air column averaged mixing ratio of atmospheric CO₂) is presented enabling accurate retrievals also in the presence of thin clouds. The proposed method is designed to analyze near-infrared nadir measurements of the SCIAMACHY instrument in the CO₂ absorption band at 1580 nm and in the O₂-A absorption band at around 760 nm. The algorithm accounts for scattering in an optically thin cirrus cloud layer and at aerosols of a default profile. The scattering information is mainly obtained from the O₂-A band and a merged fit windows approach enables the transfer of information between the O₂-A and the CO₂ band. Via the optimal estimation technique, the algorithm is able to account for a priori information to further constrain the inversion. Test scenarios of simulated SCIAMACHY sun-normalized radiance measurements are analyzed in order to specify the quality of the proposed method. In contrast to existing algorithms for SCIAMACHY retrievals, the systematic errors due to cirrus clouds with optical thicknesses up to 1.0 are reduced to values below 4 ppm for most of the analyzed scenarios. 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