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Orbiting Carbon Observatory – 2 (OCO-2): as we enter the 2nd extended mission
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Studying the Carbon Cycle from Space: The Orbiting Carbon Observatories
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Scheduling and Operations of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 Mission
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Urban-Focused Satellite CO2 Observations From the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3: A First Look at the Los Angeles Megacity
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Urban-focused satellite CO2 observations from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3: A first look at the Los Angeles megacity
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Spectroscopy for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory Missions: Progress and Plans
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OCO-M: Spectroscopy to Support the OCO Missions: P4825: Absorption Coefficient (ABSCO) Tables for the Orbiting Carbon Observatories
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High‐accuracy measurements of total column water vapor from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory‐2
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Characterizing Average Seasonal, Synoptic, and Finer Variability in Orbiting Carbon Observatory‐2 XCO 2 Across North America and Adjacent Ocean Basins
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Characteristics of Total Column CO2 Retrievals from the OCO Missions: Biases, Information Content and Implications for Flux Inversions
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 and Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3, launched in 2015 and 2019, respectively, are intended to collect and deliver high-resolution observations of CO2 with unprecedented space and time coverage. Observations of CO2 from these remote-sensing missions (also known as XCO2, or column-based average, dry air mole fraction of CO2) are then used by the global carbon cycle community to answer a wide range of science questions, from the distribution and quantification of global and regional CO2 source-sink patterns to quantification of anthropogenic sources at urban scales. Even though we have had the OCO-2 mission flying for a few years now, the retrieval algorithms are continuously evolving and improving to deliver XCO2 retrievals with very high precision and high accuracy (or low biases). In this presentation, we will discuss a simple yet effective quantitative framework that has been developed by the OCO-2 flux team to evaluate the information content of these XCO2 retrievals as soon as they are released, i.e., with lower latency than full-scale flux inversions. This framework serves as a precursor to advanced inverse modeling frameworks and is intended to provide an early but accurate assessment of the signal present in the satellite retrievals, the robustness of that signal, and the ability of these retrievals to resolve patterns in CO2 surface fluxes that cannot be resolved by our current network of surface sites. Specific results will tackle a tiered set of questions that are being addressed using this framework: (a) what are the distribution of retrievals in the different modes of operation and how do they vary in space and time? (b) what is the information that is being given to the inverse modeling frameworks from the space-based data, information above and beyond what is provided by the in-situ data? and (c) how do these factors influence our choices for doing flux inversions with the satellite retrievals? While the primary focus of the results will be on application of this technique to mature OCO-2 retrievals, we will show early results for a couple of months of OCO-3 retrievals. For the time-period that the retrievals from the two missions overlap, we will highlight how this framework allows us to effortlessly put the information from OCO-3 and OCO-2 on an equal footing, thus enabling easy comparison between the two pioneering missions.