Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-713-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-713-2020
Research article
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13 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 13 Feb 2020

XCO2 observations using satellite measurements with moderate spectral resolution: investigation using GOSAT and OCO-2 measurements

Lianghai Wu, Joost aan de Brugh, Yasjka Meijer, Bernd Sierk, Otto Hasekamp, Andre Butz, and Jochen Landgraf

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The future European CO2 monitoring constellation is targeting a moderate spectral resolution of 0.1, 0.3, and 0.3–0.55 nm in the spectral bands of 0.76, 1.61, and 2.06 μm. To assess this choice, we perform XCO2 retrievals using both satellite (OCO-2 and GOSAT) and synthetic observations, which we spectrally degrade to the target spectral resolution. We see that moderate spectral resolution mainly reduces XCO2 precision and has little effect on the the systematic error.