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    Improved constraints on northern extratropical CO₂ fluxes obtained by combining surface‐based and space‐based atmospheric CO₂ measurements

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    Byrne, B.
    Liu, J.
    Lee, M.
    Baker, I.
    Bowman, K.W.
    Deutscher, N.M.
    Feist, D.G.
    Griffith, D.W.T.
    Iraci, L.T.
    Kiel, M.
    Kimball, J.S.
    Miller, C.E.
    Morino, I.
    Parazoo, N.C.
    Petri, C.
    Roehl, C.M.
    Sha, M.K.
    Strong, K.
    Velazco, V.A.
    Wennberg, P.O.
    Wunch, D.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    carbon cycle
    CO2 flux
    data assimilation
    GOSAT
    TCCON
    OCO‐2
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2020
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    Description
    Top‐down estimates of CO2 fluxes are typically constrained by either surface‐based or space‐based CO2 observations. Both of these measurement types have spatial and temporal gaps in observational coverage that can lead to differences in inferred fluxes. Assimilating both surface‐based and space‐based measurements concurrently in a flux inversion framework improves observational coverage and reduces sampling related artifacts. This study examines the consistency of flux constraints provided by these different observations and the potential to combine them by performing a series of 6‐year (2010–2015) CO2 flux inversions. Flux inversions are performed assimilating surface‐based measurements from the in situ and flask network, measurements from the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON), and space‐based measurements from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), or all three data sets combined. Combining the data sets results in more precise flux estimates for subcontinental regions relative to any of the data sets alone. Combining the data sets also improves the accuracy of the posterior fluxes, based on reduced root‐mean‐square differences between posterior flux‐simulated CO2 and aircraft‐based CO2 over midlatitude regions (0.33–0.56 ppm) in comparison to GOSAT (0.37–0.61 ppm), TCCON (0.50–0.68 ppm), or in situ and flask measurements (0.46–0.56 ppm) alone. These results suggest that surface‐based and GOSAT measurements give complementary constraints on CO2 fluxes in the northern extratropics and can be combined in flux inversions to improve constraints on regional fluxes. This stands in contrast with many earlier attempts to combine these data sets and suggests that improvements in the NASA Atmospheric CO2 Observations from Space (ACOS) retrieval algorithm have significantly improved the consistency of space‐based and surface‐based flux constraints.
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    Byrne, B.; Liu, J.; Lee, M.; Baker, I.; Bowman, K.W.; Deutscher, N.M.; Feist, D.G.; Griffith, D.W.T.; Iraci, L.T.; Kiel, M.; Kimball, J.S.; Miller, C.E.; Morino, I.; Parazoo, N.C.; Petri, C.; Roehl, C.M.; Sha, M.K.; Strong, K.; Velazco, V.A.; Wennberg, P.O.; Wunch, D. (2020). Improved constraints on northern extratropical CO₂ fluxes obtained by combining surface‐based and space‐based atmospheric CO₂ measurements. , Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 125, Issue 15, e2019JD032029, DOI: 10.1029/2019JD032029.
    Identifiers
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/7613
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032029
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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