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CARBONGASES—Retrieval and Analysis of Carbon Dioxide and Methane Greenhouse Gases from SCIAMACHY on Envisat

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CARBONGASES aims at making a contribution to fill the significant gaps in our understanding of the global carbon cycle by improving our knowledge about the regional sources and sinks of the two most important anthropogenic greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane. To this end, global multi-year satellite data sets, namely column-averaged dry air mole fractions of carbon dioxide and methane retrieved from the SCIAMACHY instrument onboard the European environmental satellite Envisat are generated. CARBONGASES embodies seven years (2003–2009) of greenhouse gas information derived from European Earth observation data improving and extending pre-existing retrievals to maximise the quantitative information on regional surface fluxes of greenhouse gases which can be inferred from the SCIAMACHY data products using inverse modelling.

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Schneising, O. (2013). CARBONGASES—Retrieval and Analysis of Carbon Dioxide and Methane Greenhouse Gases from SCIAMACHY on Envisat. In: Remote Sensing Advances for Earth System Science. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32521-2_2

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