Measurements and Applications
Measurement of CO2 concentration using CO2 absorption bands at 1607nm and 2046nm
Full Name
Microcarb
Status
Being developed
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Atmospheric chemistry 
Geometry
Push-broom scanning
Instrument Technology
High-resolution nadir-scanning SW spectrometer
Sampling
Sounding
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
NetCDF (L2, L3, L4), HDF (L1)
Resolution
3 FOV size 4,5 km (ACT) x 8.9 km (ALT) simultaneously acquired
[Best Resolution: 4500m]
Swath
13km with 3 contigous pixels of 4.5x8.9km, up to > 25km in Glint mode
[Max Swath: 13 km]
Accuracy
CO2 concentrations: bias < 0,1 ppm (objective), < 0.2 ppm (threshold) , random< 0.5 ppm (objective), 1.5 ppm (threshold) (values extracted from the mission specification)
Waveband
B1 (O2): 763.5 nm BW : 10.5nm; B2 ( CO2): 1608 nm BW : 22.2nm; B3 ( CO2): 2037 nm BW: 28.1 nm; B4(O2): 1273.4 nm BW: 17.6 nm
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