GES DISC provides CO2 data from Japanese GOSAT

Atmospheric CO2 Observations from Space (ACOS) Project data set archived at GES DISC

SESDA II staff working at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) helped stand up the CO2 column-averaged dry air mole fraction data generated from measurements obtained by the Japanese Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) platform. These data are Level 2 data generated by the Atmospheric CO₂ Observations from Space (ACOS) Project at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
 
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has granted the ACOS Project access to GOSAT’s calibrated Level 1B measurements. The ACOS Project applies the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) calibration, validation, and remote sensing retrieval assets to analyze these GOSAT measurements. Data are available for selected soundings from April 2009 to present.
 
These data are in the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5) and are available (along with documentation) from the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center Atmospheric Composition Portal: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/acdisc and through the GOSAT/ACOS page at GES DISC:
http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/acdisc/documentation/ACOS.shtml

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