Seasonal and inter-annual variability of atmosphere CO 2 based on NOAA Carbon Tracker analysis and satellite observation
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Seasonal and inter-annual variability of atmosphere CO2 based on NOAA Carbon Tracker analysis and satellite observations M. Krishnapriya1 • A. Bhuvana Chandra1 • Rabindra K. Nayak1 • N. R. Patel2 P. V. N. Rao1 • V. K. Dadhwal3
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Received: 25 July 2016 / Accepted: 30 April 2017 Ó Indian Society of Remote Sensing 2017
Abstract A study on seasonal and inter-annual variability of the atmospheric CO2 is carried out based on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Carbon Tracker (NOAACT) re-analysis and satellite measurements of midtroposphere CO2 by Atmosphere Infrared Sounder on board NASA’s Aqua and lower troposphere CO2 by Greenhouse-gas Observing Satellite. Seasonal and nonseasonal components of each time series were extracted by means of least square based harmonic analysis procedure. The data of surface CO2 fluxes used in the NOAACT are also analyzed to examine its relationship with the atmosphere CO2 variability at different time scales. There exists good consistency between NOAACT analysis and satellite observations in their respective seasonal harmonics and climatology. Surface layer CO2 exhibits large climatological mean over the regions of major anthropogenic sources together with strong seasonal cycle over the humid and cold climatic terrestrial regions especially over the northern hemisphere. Existence of high coherency with the different components of the surface fluxes shows that surface layer atmosphere CO2 seasonality is primarily contributed from the terrestrial ecosystem exchanges and secondarily by anthropogenic and oceanic exchanges. The mid-troposphere CO2 exhibits large values associated with climatology and amplitudes of semi-annual and annual cycles & Rabindra K. Nayak [email protected] 1
National Remote Sensing Centre (ISRO), Hyderabad 500625, India
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Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), Dehradun 248001, India
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Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum 695547, India
over the northern extra tropics and Polar Regions along with a gradual decreasing trend from northern to southern hemisphere. Inter-annual variability of atmospheric CO2 in the NOAACT in some extent is consistent with the satellite observations. Large scale circulation patterns, its fluctuations associated with ENSO events and large scale ecosystem disturbances have significant influence on the inter-annual variability. Keywords Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse gas Seasonal cycle Carbon cycle NOAACT AIRS GOSAT
Introduction Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a critical greenhouse gas and its unprecedented increase in the atmosphere is the major concern of the today’s global warming and climatic change. It has increased by 40% since pre-industrial times, from 280 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to more than 402 ppmv in 2015 (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/ trends/). Much of the current increasing trend of CO2 is attributable to the 6-fold increase in human use of fossil fuel, deforestation and other anthropogenic CO2 emission (Inter Governmental Panel for Cli
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