| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Remote Sensing Of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases For Earth's Ecosystem Health |
| Main Convener | Dr. Florian M. Schwandner (NASA - JPL, Caltech, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Tatsuya Yokota (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) Dr. Prabir Patra (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan) Prof. Xiangjun Tian (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) |
| Session Description | Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are the greenhouse gas with the highest anthropogenic climate impact throughout the past century. Measurements are urgently needed for estimating the sources and sinks of CO2 and CH4 in the terrestrial biosphere and oceanic environments at sub-continental/sub-basin scales. The enormous fluxes in tropical Asia and industrialized Asia are still insufficiently constrained by measurements. First satellite remote sensing measurements of CO2 progressively gained spatial resolution and fidelity, beginning with SCHIAMACHY and AIRS (both launched 2002), followed in 2009 by the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT), and in 2014 the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2), and the scheduled 2016 launch of TanSat by the Chinese Space Agency. This joint session between the Atmosphere and Biogescience science section invites contributions based on the analysis of the remote sensing measurements of greenhouse gases, and programmes supporting validation and improvements in satellite data products, including ground-based, TCCON, aircraft/balloon profiles, radiations and aerosols, atmospheric transport models from global down to point source scales. |