High‐accuracy measurements of total column water vapor from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory‐2

Nelson, Robert R.; Crisp, David; Ott, Lesley E.; O'Dell, Christopher W.

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High‐accuracy measurements of total column water vapor from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory‐2

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2016
By Nelson, Robert R. ; Crisp, David ; Ott, Lesley E. ; ...

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Geophysical Research Letters
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Nelson, Robert R. ; Crisp, David ; Ott, Lesley E. ; O'Dell, Christopher W.
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CIRA (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere)
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AccurateknowledgeofthedistributionofwatervaporinEarth’satmosphereisofcritical importancetobothweatherandclimatestudies.Herewereportonmeasurementsoftotalcolumnwatervapor(TCWV)fromhyperspectralobservationsofnear-infraredreﬂectedsunlightoverlandandocean surfacesfromtheOrbitingCarbonObservatory-2(OCO-2).Thesemeasurementsareanancillaryproduct oftheretrievalalgorithmusedtomeasureatmosphericcar bondioxideconcentrations,withinformation comingfromthreehighlyresolvedspectralbands.Comparisonstohigh-accuracyvalidationdata,including ground-based GPS and microwave radiometer data, demonstrate that OCO-2 TCWV measurements havemaximumroot-mean-squaredeviationsof0.9–1.3mm.OurresultsindicatethatOCO-2istheﬁrstspace-basedsensortoaccuratelyandpreciselymeasurethetwomostimportantgreenhousegases,water
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General Earth And Planetary Sciences Geophysics General Earth And Planetary Sciences General Earth And Planetary Sciences
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Geophysical Research Letters, 43(23)
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https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl071200
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0094-8276 ; 1944-8007
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