Calibration of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network using aircraft profile data by D. Wunch, G. C. Toon, P. O. Wennberg, S. C. Wofsy, B. B. Stephens, M. L. Fischer, O. Uchino, J. B. Abshire, P. Bernath, S. C. Biraud, J.-F. L. Blavier, C. Boone, K. P. Bowman, E. V. Browell, T. Campos, B. J. Connor, B. C. Daube, N. M. Deutscher, M. Diao, J. W. Elkins, C. Gerbig, E. Gottlieb, D. W. T. Griffith, D. F. Hurst, R. Jiménez, G. Keppel-Aleks, E. A. Kort, R. Macatangay, T. Machida, H. Matsueda, F. Moore, I. Morino, S. Park, J. Robinson, C. M. Roehl, Y. Sawa, V. Sherlock, C. Sweeney, T. Tanaka, M. A. Zondlo

“…The TCCON must therefore be calibrated to World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in situ trace gas measurement scales. We present a calibration of TCCON data using WMO-scale instrumentation aboard aircraft that measured profiles over four TCCON stations during 2008 and 2009. …”
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Evaluation of MOPITT Version 7 joint TIR–NIR X_CO retrievals with TCCON by J. K. Hedelius, T.-L. He, D. B. A. Jones, B. C. Baier, B. C. Baier, R. R. Buchholz, M. De Mazière, N. M. Deutscher, M. K. Dubey, D. G. Feist, D. G. Feist, D. G. Feist, D. W. T. Griffith, F. Hase, L. T. Iraci, P. Jeseck, M. Kiel, M. Kiel, R. Kivi, C. Liu, I. Morino, J. Notholt, Y.-S. Oh, H. Ohyama, D. F. Pollard, M. Rettinger, S. Roche, C. M. Roehl, M. Schneider, K. Shiomi, K. Strong, R. Sussmann, C. Sweeney, C. Sweeney, Y. Té, O. Uchino, V. A. Velazco, V. A. Velazco, W. Wang, T. Warneke, P. O. Wennberg, P. O. Wennberg, H. M. Worden, D. Wunch

“…When using TCCON spectrometric column retrievals without the standard airmass correction or scaling to aircraft (WMO scale), the ground- and satellite-based observations overall agree to better than 0.5 %. …”
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