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Comparisons of satellite (GOSAT) and ground-based Fourier spectroscopic measurements of methane content near St. Petersburg

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The column-average mole fraction of methane measured with hyperspectral methods of ground-based Fourier transform spectroscopy at the Physical Department of St. Petersburg State University (59.9° N, 29.8° E) in 2009–2012 is compared with similar data measured from the Japanese GOSAT satellite. The average mole fraction of methane \(X_{CH_4 } \) from GOSAT data version V01.xx are lower by 17–21 ppb than the corresponding value obtained from ground-based measurements with a standard deviation of about 13 ppb. For the GOSAT data version V02.xx, this difference is about 2 ppb on average, with a standard deviation of about 18 ppb. This corresponds to differences between data on \(X_{CH_4 } \) from the GOSAT satellite and from the TCCON and NDACC networks.

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Makarova, N.M. Gavrilov, Yu.M. Timofeev, A.V. Poberovskii, 2013, published in Issledovanie Zemli iz Kosmosa, 2013, No. 6, pp. 50–56.

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Makarova, M.V., Gavrilov, N.M., Timofeev, Y.M. et al. Comparisons of satellite (GOSAT) and ground-based Fourier spectroscopic measurements of methane content near St. Petersburg. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 50, 904–909 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433814090138

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