Satellite observations of atmospheric methane and their value for quantifying methane emissions

DJ Jacob, AJ Turner, JD Maasakkers… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Methane is a greenhouse gas emitted by a range of natural and anthropogenic sources.
Atmospheric methane has been measured continuously from space since 2003, and new …

The Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC): history, status and perspectives

M De Mazière, AM Thompson, MJ Kurylo… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
The Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) is an
international global network of more than 90 stations making high-quality measurements of …

TransCom model simulations of CH4 and related species: linking transport, surface flux and chemical loss with CH4 variability in the troposphere and lower …

PK Patra, S Houweling, M Krol… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
A chemistry-transport model (CTM) intercomparison experiment (TransCom-CH 4) has been
designed to investigate the roles of surface emissions, transport and chemical loss in …

Inverse modeling of global and regional CH4 emissions using SCIAMACHY satellite retrievals

P Bergamaschi, C Frankenberg… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Methane retrievals from the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric
Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument onboard ENVISAT provide important information on …

Vertical structure of stratospheric water vapour trends derived from merged satellite data

MI Hegglin, DA Plummer, TG Shepherd… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Stratospheric water vapour is a powerful greenhouse gas. The longest available record from
balloon observations over Boulder, Colorado, USA shows increases in stratospheric water …

Satellite based remote sensing of weather and climate: recent achievements and future perspectives

B Thies, J Bendix - Meteorological Applications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Spaceborne remote sensing provides valuable information about the state of the Earth‐
atmosphere system and its components in an area‐wide and continuous manner. Over the …

Methane plume over south Asia during the monsoon season: satellite observation and model simulation

X Xiong, S Houweling, J Wei, E Maddy… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - acp.copernicus.org
Satellite retrievals of methane (CH 4) using the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the
EOS/Aqua platform from 2003–2007 show a strong, plume-like enhancement of CH 4 in the …

Characterization of methane retrievals from the IASI space-borne sounder

A Razavi, C Clerbaux, C Wespes… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - acp.copernicus.org
Although the global methane (CH 4) concentration has more than doubled since pre-
industrial times, local emission sources are still poorly identified and quantified. Instruments …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing model errors in chemical transport modeling of methane: Impact of model resolution in versions v9-02 of GEOS-Chem and v35j of its adjoint …

I Stanevich, DBA Jones, K Strong… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The GEOS-Chem simulation of atmospheric CH 4 was evaluated against observations from
the Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observations Fourier Transform …

Validation of ACE-FTS v2.2 measurements of HCl, HF, CCl3F and CCl2F2 using space-, balloon- and ground-based instrument observations

E Mahieu, P Duchatelet, P Demoulin… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - acp.copernicus.org
Hydrogen chloride (HCl) and hydrogen fluoride (HF) are respectively the main chlorine and
fluorine reservoirs in the Earth's stratosphere. Their buildup resulted from the intensive use …