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Geostationary Carbon Process Mapper (GCPM)Geostationary Carbon Process Mapper (GCPM) is an earth science mission to measure key atmospheric trace gases related to climate change and human activity.Understanding of sources and sinks of CO2 is currently limited by frequency of observations and uncertainty in vertical transport. GCPM improves this situation by making simultaneous high resolution measurements of CO2, CH4, CF, and CO in near-IR, many times per day. GCPM is able to investigate processes with time scales of minutes to hours. CO2, CH4, CF, Co selected because their combination provides information needed to disentangle natural and anthropogenic sources/sinks. Quasi-continuous monitoring effectively eliminates atmospheric transport uncertainties from source/sink inversion modeling. will have one instrument (GeoFTS), hosted on a commercial communications satellite, planned for two years operation. GCPM will affordably advance the understanding of observed cycle variability improving future climate projections.
Document ID
20130000012
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Presentation
External Source(s)
Authors
Key, Richard
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Sander, Stanley
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Eldering, Annmarie
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Miller, Charles
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Frankenberg, Christian
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Natraj, Vijay
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Rider, David
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Blavier, Jean-Francois
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Bekker, Dmitriy
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wu, Yen-Hung
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
March 7, 2012
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference
Location: Big Sky, MT
Country: United States
Start Date: March 3, 2012
End Date: March 10, 2012
Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Carbon Process
geostationary
hosted payload

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