The 2015–2016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network

Crowell, Sean; Baker, David; Schuh, Andrew; Basu, Sourish; Jacobson, Andrew R.; Chevallier, Frederic; Liu, Junjie; Deng, Feng; Feng, Liang; McKain, Kathryn; Chatterjee, Abhishek; Miller, John B.; Stephens, Britton B.; Eldering, Annmarie; Crisp, David; Schimel, David; Nassar, Ray; O'Dell, Christopher W.; Oda, Tomohiro; Sweeney, Colm; Palmer, Paul I.; Jones, Dylan B. A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9797-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 15

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 9797–9831, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9797-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 9797–9831, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9797-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 15

Research article 02 Aug 2019

Research article | 02 Aug 2019

The 2015–2016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network

Sean Crowell et al.

Data sets

OCO-2 Level 4 Product A. Jacobson https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/OCO2/

Short summary

Space-based retrievals of carbon dioxide offer the potential to provide dense data in regions that are sparsely observed by the surface network. We find that flux estimates that are informed by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) show different character from that inferred using surface measurements in tropical land regions, particularly in Africa, with a much larger total emission and larger amplitude seasonal cycle.