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ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages 2325-2344Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-15-2325-2022
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System (EOS) program
- National Science Foundation
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The V9 MOPITT satellite retrieval product for CO detection shows improvements in cloud detection and increased CO retrievals over land. Validation results indicate that the retrieval biases for V9 are generally comparable to those of the V8 product.
Characteristics of the Version 9 (V9) MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere) satellite retrieval product for tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO) are described. The new V9 product includes many CO retrievals over land which, in previous MOPITT product versions, would have been discarded by the cloud detection algorithm. Globally, the number of daytime MOPITT retrievals over land has increased by 30 %-40 % relative to the Version 8 product, although the increase in retrieval coverage exhibits significant geographical variability. Areas benefiting from the improved cloud detection performance include (but are not limited to) source regions often characterized by high aerosol concentrations. The V9 MOPITT product also incorporates a modified calibration strategy for the MOPITT near-infrared (NIR) CO channels, resulting in greater temporal consistency for the NIR-only and thermal-infrared-near-infrared (TIR-NIR) retrieval variants. Validation results based on in situ CO profiles acquired from aircraft in a variety of contexts indicate that retrieval biases for V9 are typically within the range of +/- 5 % and are generally comparable to results for the V8 product.
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