Nadir measurements of carbon monoxide distributions by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument onboard the Aura Spacecraft: Overview of analysis approach and examples of initial results

Curtis P. Rinsland; Ming Luo; Jennifer A. Logan; Reinhard Beer; Helen Worden; Davis Rider; Greg Osterman; Michael Gunson; Annmarie Eldering; Aaron Goldman; Mark Shephard; Shepard A. Clough; Clive Rodgers; Michael Lampel; Linda Chiou

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Nadir measurements of carbon monoxide distributions by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument onboard the Aura Spacecraft: Overview of analysis approach and examples of initial results

Curtis P. Rinsland, Ming Luo, Jennifer A. Logan, Reinhard Beer, Helen Worden, Davis Rider, Greg Osterman, Michael Gunson, Annmarie Eldering, Aaron Goldman, Mark Shephard, Shepard A. Clough, Clive Rodgers, Michael Lampel, Linda Chiou

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We provide an overview of the nadir measurements of carbon monoxide (CO) obtained thus far by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES). The instrument is a high resolution array Fourier transform spectrometer designed to measure infrared spectral radiances from low Earth orbit. It is one of four instruments successfully launched onboard the Aura platform into a sun synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705 km on July 15, 2004 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Nadir spectra are recorded at 0.06-cm^-1 spectral resolution with a nadir footprint of 5 × 8 km. We describe the TES retrieval approach for the analysis of the nadir measurements, report averaging kernels for typical tropical and polar ocean locations, characterize random and systematic errors for those locations, and describe instrument performance changes in the CO spectral region as a function of time. Sample maps of retrieved CO for the middle and upper troposphere from global surveys during December 2005 and April 2006 highlight the potential of the results for measurement and tracking of global pollution and determining air quality from space.

Original language	English
Article number	L22806
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	33
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027000
State	Published - Nov 28 2006

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Rinsland, C. P., Luo, M., Logan, J. A., Beer, R., Worden, H., Rider, D., Osterman, G., Gunson, M., Eldering, A., Goldman, A., Shephard, M., Clough, S. A., Rodgers, C., Lampel, M., & Chiou, L. (2006). Nadir measurements of carbon monoxide distributions by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument onboard the Aura Spacecraft: Overview of analysis approach and examples of initial results. Geophysical Research Letters, 33(22), Article L22806. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027000

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Rinsland, CP, Luo, M, Logan, JA, Beer, R, Worden, H, Rider, D, Osterman, G, Gunson, M, Eldering, A, Goldman, A, Shephard, M, Clough, SA, Rodgers, C, Lampel, M & Chiou, L 2006, 'Nadir measurements of carbon monoxide distributions by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument onboard the Aura Spacecraft: Overview of analysis approach and examples of initial results', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 33, no. 22, L22806. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027000

Nadir measurements of carbon monoxide distributions by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument onboard the Aura Spacecraft: Overview of analysis approach and examples of initial results. / Rinsland, Curtis P.; Luo, Ming; Logan, Jennifer A. et al.
In: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, No. 22, L22806, 28.11.2006.

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