Retrieval of carbon monoxide profiles and total methane columns from MOPITT measurements

John C. Gille; Liwen Pan; Mark W. Smith; Paul L. Bailey

Retrieval of carbon monoxide profiles and total methane columns from MOPITT measurements

John C. Gille, Liwen Pan, Mark W. Smith, Paul L. Bailey

Atmospheric Composition Remote Sensing and Prediction

National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Abstract

The Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument is designed to measure CO and CH₄ in the troposphere from a satellite platform. This instrument has been selected to be on the Earth Observing System (EOS)'s AM platform, which is scheduled to be launched in 1998. The objective of the MOPITT experiment and the concept of the instrument have been described by Drummond (1992). In this paper, we present the development of retrieval algorithms and the simulation experiments performed to evaluate the algorithms and to understand certain measurement issues. The MOPITT instrument is a gas correlation spectrometer. It makes measurements in three spectral regions. The objective is to measure the CO vertical distribution from 0 to approximately 15 km within 10% accuracy and the CH₄ column amount within 1% accuracy. There are four radiometers making measurements in the thermal band at 4.7 μm, which will be used to obtain profile information about the tropospheric CO distribution. Two short-wave solar reflectance channels will be used at 2.3 and 2.2 μm to measure total column amounts of CO and CH₄, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages	684-686
Number of pages	3
State	Published - 1994
Event	Proceedings of the 1994 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Vol 4 (of 4) - Pasadena, CA, USA Duration: Aug 8 1994 → Aug 12 1994

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Conference	Proceedings of the 1994 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Vol 4 (of 4)
City	Pasadena, CA, USA
Period	08/8/94 → 08/12/94

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Retrieval of carbon monoxide profiles and total methane columns from MOPITT measurements

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