Vol. 33, issue 07, article # 6

Nikitenko A. A., Timofeev Yu. M., Berezin I. A., Virolainen Ya. A., Polyakov A. V. The analysis of OCO-2 satellite measurements of CO2 in the vicinity of Russian cities. // Optika Atmosfery i Okeana. 2020. V. 33. No. 07. P. 538–543. DOI: 10.15372/AOO20200706 [in Russian].
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Abstract:

CO2 spatial and temporal variability in five Russian regions has been analyzed on the basis of OCO-2 satellite measurements (more than 300 days during 4.5 years, more than 50 000 measurements). The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) allows measurements of CO2 content with a high accuracy (0.25–0.5%) (for data with a quality flag “0”), a high horizontal resolution (1.29 ´ 2.25 км2), and a spatial coverage along paths of ~ 10 km. That makes it possible to analyze the spatial and temporal variations in CO2 column-averaged dry-air mole fractions (XCO2). XCO2 OCO-2 data with quality flag “1” has lower measurement accuracy, but the number of such measurements is 5–10 times greater than that with quality flag “0”. XCO2 satellite measurements with quality flag “0” in the vicinity of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Magnitogorsk, and Norilsk (circles with a radius of 100 km from the city centers) have been analyzed. Comparisons of the meaurements in different cities and regions show that XCO2 datasets with a quality flag “0” are homogeneous, the amplitude of XCO2 variations amounts to 5–6%, root mean square variations are less than 1%. The maximum values of XCO2 spatial variations totals 2–4%, which differs significantly from the results of the analysis of OCO-2 XCO2 data with quality flag “1”.

Keywords:

spatial-temporal variability of carbon dioxide, OCO-2 satellite, XCO2 variations, XCO2 data with a quality flag “0”, XCO2 data with a quality flag “1”

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