NORMAN, OK–GeoCarb has released a new manuscript, The 2015-2016 Carbon Cycle as Seen from OCO-2 and the Global In Situ Network, authored by top researchers in their fields. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) has been on orbit since 2014, and its global coverage holds the potential to reveal new information about the carbon cycle through the use of top-down atmospheric inversion methods combined with column average CO2 retrievals.
The manuscript features six sections, following as researchers employ a large ensemble of atmospheric inversions using different transport models, data assimilation techniques and prior flux distributions in order to quantify the satellite-informed fluxes from the OCO-2 Version 7r land observations and their uncertainties at continental scales. Additionally, researchers used in situ measurements to provide a baseline against which to compare the satellite-constrained results.
The manuscript currently is in review process. Posted as a discussion paper in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Journal, the paper will be available for public discussion at bit.ly/2019ACP87 until April 3, 2019. Referees, authors and other members of the scientific community are invited to contribute to the discussion. Comments should be of a substantial nature and of direct relevance to the issues raised in the paper. These comments are fully citable and will be archived together with the paper.
For more information about the paper, visit bit.ly/2019ACP87 or contact GeoCarb Project Scientist Sean Crowell at scrowell@ou.edu.
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