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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1513-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1513-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
11 Mar 2019
Research article |
| 11 Mar 2019
| 11 Mar 2019
Building the COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON): long-term stability and ensemble performance of the EM27/SUN Fourier transform spectrometer
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Mahesh K. Sha
Royal Belgian
Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
formerly at: Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Frank Hase
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Matthäus Kiel
Division of
Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
formerly at: Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Thomas Blumenstock
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Roland Harig
Bruker Optics GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany
Gregor Surawicz
Bruker Optics GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Kei Shiomi
Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Jonathan E. Franklin
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Hartmut Bösch
Department of Physics and
Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
National Centre
for Earth Observation (NCEO), University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Environmental Sensing and Modeling, Technische Universität
München, Munich, Germany
Michel Grutter
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad National Autónoma de
México, Mexico City, Mexico
Hirofumi Ohyama
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Youwen Sun
Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
André Butz
Institut für
Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
formerly at: Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre,
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.,
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Gizaw Mengistu Tsidu
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Botswana
International University of Science and Technology, Gaborone, Botswana
Dragos Ene
National
Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics (INOE), Magurele,
Romania
Debra Wunch
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Zhensong Cao
Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China
Omaira Garcia
Izaña
Atmospheric Research Centre (IARC), Meteorological State Agency of Spain
(AEMET), Tenerife, Spain
Michel Ramonet
Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de
l'environment, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Felix Vogel
Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada
Johannes Orphal
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Data sets
{TCCON data from Karlsruhe (DE), ReleaseGGG2014R1 F. Hase, T. Blumenstock, S. Dohe, J. Gross, and M. Kiel https://doi.org/10.14291/tccon.ggg2014.karlsruhe01.R1/1182416
Short summary
In a 3.5-year long study, the long-term performance of a mobile EM27/SUN spectrometer, used for greenhouse gas observations, is checked with respect to a co-located reference spectrometer. We find that the EM27/SUN is stable on timescales of several years, qualifying it for permanent carbon cycle studies.
The performance of an ensemble of 30 EM27/SUN spectrometers was also tested in the framework of the COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON) and found to be very uniform.
In a 3.5-year long study, the long-term performance of a mobile EM27/SUN spectrometer, used for...
