Chlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO2 retrievals
<p>With the advent of dedicated greenhouse-gas space-borne spectrometers sporting high resolution spectra in the O₂ A-band spectral region (755-774 nm), the retrieval of chlorophyll fluorescence has become feasible on a global scale. If unaccounted for, however, fluorescence can indirectly per...
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| author | Frankenberg, C O'Dell, C Guanter, L McDuffie, J |
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| description | <p>With the advent of dedicated greenhouse-gas space-borne spectrometers sporting high resolution spectra in the O₂ A-band spectral region (755-774 nm), the retrieval of chlorophyll fluorescence has become feasible on a global scale. If unaccounted for, however, fluorescence can indirectly perturb the greenhouse gas retrievals as it perturbs the oxygen absorption features. As atmospheric CO₂ measurements are used to invert net fluxes at the land-atmosphere interface, a bias caused by fluorescence can be crucial as it will spatially correlate with the fluxes to be inverted. Avoiding a bias and retrieving fluorescence accurately will provide additional constraints on both the net and gross fluxes in the global carbon cycle. We show that chlorophyll fluorescence, if neglected, systematically interferes with full-physics multi-band X<sub>CO₂</sub> retrievals using the O₂ A-band. Systematic biases in X<sub>CO₂</sub> can amount to + 1 ppm if fluorescence constitutes 1% to the continuum level radiance. We show that this bias can be largely eliminated by simultaneously fitting fluorescence in a full-physics based retrieval.</p><p>If fluorescence is the primary target, a dedicated but very simple retrieval based purely on Fraunhofer lines is shown to be more accurate and very robust even in the presence of large scattering optical depths. We find that about 80% of the surface fluorescence is retained at the top-of-atmosphere even for cloud optical thicknesses around 2-5. We further show that small instrument modifications to future O₂ A-band spectrometer spectral ranges can result in largely reduced random errors in chlorophyll fluorescence, paving the way towards a more dedicated instrument exploiting solar absorption features only.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:331f41db-c8f0-4ca9-b5e4-0f47305ecf1f2022-03-26T13:18:25ZChlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO2 retrievalsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:331f41db-c8f0-4ca9-b5e4-0f47305ecf1fPhysicsAtmospheric,Oceanic,and Planetary physicsEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetEuropean Geosciences Union2012Frankenberg, CO'Dell, CGuanter, LMcDuffie, J<p>With the advent of dedicated greenhouse-gas space-borne spectrometers sporting high resolution spectra in the O₂ A-band spectral region (755-774 nm), the retrieval of chlorophyll fluorescence has become feasible on a global scale. If unaccounted for, however, fluorescence can indirectly perturb the greenhouse gas retrievals as it perturbs the oxygen absorption features. As atmospheric CO₂ measurements are used to invert net fluxes at the land-atmosphere interface, a bias caused by fluorescence can be crucial as it will spatially correlate with the fluxes to be inverted. Avoiding a bias and retrieving fluorescence accurately will provide additional constraints on both the net and gross fluxes in the global carbon cycle. We show that chlorophyll fluorescence, if neglected, systematically interferes with full-physics multi-band X<sub>CO₂</sub> retrievals using the O₂ A-band. Systematic biases in X<sub>CO₂</sub> can amount to + 1 ppm if fluorescence constitutes 1% to the continuum level radiance. We show that this bias can be largely eliminated by simultaneously fitting fluorescence in a full-physics based retrieval.</p><p>If fluorescence is the primary target, a dedicated but very simple retrieval based purely on Fraunhofer lines is shown to be more accurate and very robust even in the presence of large scattering optical depths. We find that about 80% of the surface fluorescence is retained at the top-of-atmosphere even for cloud optical thicknesses around 2-5. We further show that small instrument modifications to future O₂ A-band spectrometer spectral ranges can result in largely reduced random errors in chlorophyll fluorescence, paving the way towards a more dedicated instrument exploiting solar absorption features only.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Physics Atmospheric,Oceanic,and Planetary physics Frankenberg, C O'Dell, C Guanter, L McDuffie, J Chlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO2 retrievals |
| title | Chlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO2 retrievals |
| title_full | Chlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO2 retrievals |
| title_fullStr | Chlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO2 retrievals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO2 retrievals |
| title_short | Chlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO2 retrievals |
| title_sort | chlorophyll fluorescence remote sensing from space in scattering atmospheres implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric co2 retrievals |
| topic | Physics Atmospheric,Oceanic,and Planetary physics |
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