Satellite observation of atmospheric methane: intercomparison between AIRS
and GOSAT TANSO-FTS retrievals

Zou, Mingmin; Xiong, Xiaozhen; Saitoh, Naoko; Warner, Juying; Zhang, Ying; Chen, Liangfu; Weng, Fuzhong; Fan, Meng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3567-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3567-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3567-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

Research article

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03 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 03 Aug 2016

Satellite observation of atmospheric methane: intercomparison between AIRS and GOSAT TANSO-FTS retrievals

Mingmin Zou, Xiaozhen Xiong, Naoko Saitoh, Juying Warner, Ying Zhang, Liangfu Chen, Fuzhong Weng, and Meng Fan

Data sets

AIRS V6 CH4 product Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (DISC) http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&project=AIRS

GOSAT TANSO-FTS TIR Level 2 CH4 product GOSAT user interface gateway (GUIG) https://data.gosat.nies.go.jp/GosatUserInterfaceGateway/guig/GuigPage/open.do

Short summary

Both AIRS and GOSAT TANSO-FTS TIR have been used to retrieve atmosphere CH₄. The purpose of an intercomparison is to provide useful information to users on the characteristics of these two different products when they investigate the spatial and temporal variation of CH₄. On the other hand, AIRS V6 CH₄ data were already validated by comparing with aircraft data. This intercomparison is also a kind of indirect validation to GOSAT data.