Characterizing Average Seasonal, Synoptic, and Finer Variability in Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 XCO₂ Across North America and Adjacent Ocean Basins.

ABSTRACT: Variations in atmosphere total column-mean CO₂ (XCO₂) collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite can be used to constrain surface carbon fluxes if the influence of atmospheric transport and observation errors on the data is known and accounted for. Due to sparse validation data, the portions of fine-scale variability in XCO₂ driven by fluxes, transport, or retrieval errors remain uncertain, particularly over the ocean. To better understand these drivers, we characterize variability in OCO-2 Level 2 version 10 XCO₂ from the seasonal scale, synoptic-scale (order of days, thousands of kilometers), and mesoscale (within-day, hundreds of kilometers) for 10 biomes over North America and adja

SUBMITTER: Mitchell KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10078313 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature