Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Session 1: On-going and near-term satellite missions and calibration

• 1.1: Precision, Accuracy, Resolution, and Coverage: A few insights from GOSAT and OCO-2, David Crisp (JPL, Caltech, USA)
• 1.2: Recent progress of GOSAT project and preparation for GOSAT-2 at National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsuneo Matsunaga (NIES, Japan)
• 1.3: TanSat Scientific Achievements and Future Plan, Yi Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• 1.4: Status of the Sentinel-5 Precursor Mission and First Results on Methane, Claus Zehner (European Space Agency)
• 1.5: Measurements of Carbon Monoxide from Space using the MOPITT Instrument, James R. Drummond (U. Toronto, Canada)

Session 2: Retrieval algorithms and uncertainty quantification

• 2.1: First Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) satellite-derived greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4) data set, Michael Buchwitz (U. Bremen, Germany)
• 2.2: Carbon dioxide retrieval from OCO-2 satellite observations using the RemoTeC algorithm: application to single-view and multiple-angle modes, Lianghai Wu (SRON, Netherlands)
• 2.3: Plume detection and characterization from XCO2 imagery: methodology and expected uncertainties on derived point source fluxes, Claude Camy-Peyret (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France)
• 2.4: Correction of topography related biases in XCO2 measurements from OCO-2, Matthäus Kiel (Caltech, USA)
• 2.5: Vertical distribution of Arctic methane from ground-based FTS measurements, Otto Lamminpää (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland)
• 2.6: IASI for Surveying Methane and Nitrous Oxide in the Troposphere: MUSICA products and its validation, Omaira García (Meteorological State Agency of Spain, Spain)

Session 3: Validation and supporting observations including ground-based and in-situ observations

• 3.1: First results of the ESA AO project TCCON4S5P focusing on the validation of the Sentinel-5P methane and carbon monoxide using TCCON data, Mahesh Kumar Sha (BIRA-IASB, Belgium)
• 3.2: Comparisons of MOPITT XCO with TCCON, Jacob Hedelius (U. Toronto, Canada)
• 3.3: Update on the Validation of OCO-2 XCO2 Data, Greg Osterman (JPL, Caltech, USA)
• 3.4: Application of TanSat algorithm on GOSAT observation - ATANGO and OCO-2 XCO2 retrieval: validation, inter-comparison and new approach, Lu Yao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• 3.5: Views from the 6 aircraft campaigns (ACT-America, HIPPO, CONTRAIL, ATom, ORCAS, and ABoVE): assimilation of airborne CO2 measurements into GEOS and comparisons with satellite retrievals, Brad Weir (NASA GSFC/USRA, USA)
• 3.6: Validation for Greenhouse Gases Measured by the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) Satellite Mission, Kaley A. Walker (U. Toronto, Canada)

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Session 1 continued: On-going and near-term satellite missions and calibration

• 1.6: Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) Greenhouse Gas Measurements: CO2, CH4 and HFCs, Peter Bernath (Old Dominion U. & U. Waterloo, USA/Canada)
• 1.7: GOSAT Calibration Updates and Operations toward an Optimized Observation Pattern, Akihiko Kuze (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan)
• 1.8: Characterization of OCO-2 biases and errors for flux estimates, Susan Kulawik (BAERI at NASA Ames, USA)
• 1.9: The OCO-3 Mission: Science Objectives and Instrument Performance, Annmarie Eldering (JPL, Caltech, USA)
• 1.10: Upper tropospheric and stratospheric trends of greenhouse gases as derived from MIPAS observations, Gabriele P. Stiller (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Session 4: GHG observations to quantify hot spots and local/urban emissions

• 4.1: Comparing carbon dioxide enhancement from anthropogenic emissions observed by GOSAT and OCO-2, Hui Zhong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• 4.2: Global XCO2 anomalies: Direct space-based observations of anthropogenic CO2 emission areas from OCO-2 and comparison with inventory-based estimates, Janne Hakkarainen (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland)
• 4.3: Advances in Quantifying Power Plant CO2 Emissions from Space, Ray Nassar (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada)
• 4.4: Quantifying methane point sources from fine-scale (GHGSat) satellite observation of atmospheric plumes, Daniel Varon (Harvard U., USA)
• 4.5: First methane retrievals and hotspot identification with TROPOMI, Haili Hu (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Netherlands)
• 4.6: Detection of local CH4 sources using the WRF-CHEM and TROPOMI XCH4, Sudhanshu Pandey (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Netherlands)
• 4.7: CO2 emissions from power plants derived from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument NO2 dataset, Debora Griffin (ECCC, Canada)

Session 5: Flux inversions on regional and global scales

• 5.1: “Are we there yet?" A look at the status and prospects of inferring top-down carbon fluxes from CO2 remote sensing, Christopher O’Dell (Colorado State U., USA)
• 5.2: On the spatial scales informed by surface and GOSAT CO2 observations, Saroja Polavarapu (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada)
• 5.3: GOSAT CO2 Inversion Inter-comparison Experiment Phase-II: intermediate progress report, Hiroshi Takagi (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)
• 5.4: The OCO-2 Level 4 Flux Product: The Global Carbon Cycle as Seen From Space, Sean Crowell (U. Oklahoma, USA)
• 5.5: Role of ClimateVariability and Land Use on Fire Emissions of Carbon Gasses in the 21rst Century, John Worden (JPL, Caltech, USA)
• 5.6: Evaluating GPP and respiration estimates over northern mid-latitude ecosystems using solar induced fluorescence and atmospheric CO2 measurements, Brendan Byrne (U. Toronto, Canada)

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Session 5 continued: Flux inversions on regional and global scales

• 5.7: Detecting drought impact on terrestrial biosphere carbon cycle over US in the context of carbon-climate interannual variability, Junjie Liu (Jet Propulsion Lab, USA)
• 5.8: Anomalies in Chinese CO2 fluxes during 2015/2016 El Niño: Comparison between satellite and in-situ observation assimilation, Jing Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• 5.9: Reconciling satellite and in-situ estimates of North American methane emissions during the unconventional gas boom of 2007–2014, Joshua Benmergui (Harvard U., USA)
• 5.10: Identifying leaky wells in oil/gas fields by satellite observation of atmospheric methane, Daniel Cusworth (Harvard U., USA)

Session 6: Future missions and observing strategies

• 6.1: NASA's Carbon Cycle OSSE Initiative - Informing future space-based observing strategies through advanced modeling and data assimilation, Lesley Ott (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
• 6.2: Assessing the potential of satellite spectro-imagery to monitor fossil fuel CO2 emissions across the globe from city and daily scales to national and annual scales, Yilong Wang (LSCE/IPSL, France)
• 6.3: An updated status of MicroCarb Project, François Buisson (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France)
• 6.4: State of play of the European Anthropogenic CO2 Monitoring Mission, Yasjka Meijer (European Space Agency)
• 6.5: European Anthropogenic CO2 monitoring mission: Instrument spectral sizing and the supporting aerosol instrument, Jochen Landgraf (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Netherlands)
• 6.6: The next generation of Chinese greenhouse gas monitoring satellite mission: TanSat-2, Dongxu Yang (IAP, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS, China)
• 6.7: IASI-New Generation: program status, system overview and scientific objectives, Adrien Deschamps (CNES, France)
• 6.8: The GeoCarb Mission, Berrien Moore (University of Oklahoma, USA)
• 6.9: ARRHENIUS: Exploring Carbon Regional Flux Dynamics in Africa, Europe and the Middle East from Geostationary Orbit, Andre Butz (U. Heidelberg, Germany)
• 6.10: AIM-North: The Atmospheric Imaging Mission for Northern Regions, Ray Nassar (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada)
• 6.11: CARBO: The carbon balance observatory, Charles Miller (JPL, Caltech, USA)
• 6.12: Pulsed Lidar Measurements of CO2 Column Concentrations in the 2017 ASCENDS Airborne Campaign, and beyond, James Abshire (NASA Goddard, USA)
• IWGGMS-15 Presentation, Tsuneo Matsunaga (NIES, Japan)

Posters

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

• A1.2: Sentinel-5 Precursor: Early In-Flight Operation, Herbert Nett (ESA ESTEC, Netherlands)
• A1.3: Retrieved of L2 Products from new V205 L1B spectra in the thermal infrared band of TANSO-FTS over the Arctic ocean and comparison with retrieval from previous versions, Sébastien Payan (LATMOS/Sorbonne U./CNRS /IPSL, France)
• A2.1: The total IASI level 2 processor τ2IP: Application to Seven-years of IASI sea surface temperature, CO2, CH4, N2O retrievals for the Arctic Ocean during the summer season, Guido Masiello (U. Basilicata, Italy)
• A2.5: What Can We Learn From Performing Simplified XCO2 Retrievals on Synthetic Near-Infrared Observations? Robert R. Nelson (Colorado State U., USA)
• A2.9: Yonsei CArbon Retrieval Algorithm: Validation, Error Analysis, and Its Application to OCO-2 Satellite, Jaemin Hong (Yonsei U., Korea)
• A3.1: Philippines TCCON Project: Result on One-year Measurements and Future, Isamu Morino (NIES, Japan)
• A3.5: GOSAT and OCO-2 validation activities at Saga station and campaign sites, Kei Shiomi (JAXA, Japan)
• A3.6: Long-term Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory, Omaira García (Meteorological State Agency of Spain, Spain)
• A4.3: The SACH4 project: Source Attribution of CH4 using satellite observations, isotopic measurements and GEOS-Chem simulations, Evelyn De Wachter (BIRA-IASB, Belgium)

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

• B1.2: Overview of OCO-3 Status and Development, Annmarie Eldering (JPL, Caltech, USA)
• B3.1: Time Series Analysis for the ACE-FTS and MIPAS CFC-11 and CFC-12 Data Products, Jason Zou (U. Toronto, Canada)
• B3.6: Validation of Satellite Measurements with Portable Fourier Transform Spectrometers (EM27/SUN), Nasrin Mostafavi Pak (U. Toronto, Canada)
• B3.9: Retrieving CO2 profiles from TCCON near-infrared spectra, Sébastien Roche (U. Toronto, Canada)
• B5.5: The Impact of Accounting for 3-D CO2 Production on Inversion for Natural Fluxes Using GOSAT and In Situ Observations, James S. Wang (USRA/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
• B5.7: Satellite bias estimation by independent CO2 inversion analysis, Takashi Maki (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan)
• B5.8: Implications of Overestimated Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions on East Asian and Global Land CO2 Flux Inversions, Tazu Saeki (NIES, Japan)

Thursday, 10 May 2018

• C1.1: MERLIN Level 0-1 Processing and Calibration Concept, Günter Lichtenberg (German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany)
• C3.2: Methane Monitor: An Airborne, Wide-Swath, Methane Mapping Instrument, William Tandy (Ball Aerospace, USA)
• C4.5: Comparing potential of a satellite constellation to monitor fossil fuel CO2 emissions from large cities and industrial sites, Franck Lespinas (LSCE, France)
• C5.2: Monitoring Global OH Abundances using Satellite Observations of Atmospheric Methane, Yuzhong Zhang (Harvard U., USA)
• C5.7: Towards global and regional methane budgets estimated by high spatial resolution atmospheric inverse model with GOSAT retrievals, Aki Tsuruta (NIES, Japan)
• C5.9: A city to national scale atmospheric inverse modeling system to assess the potential of new space borne measurement concepts for the monitoring of CO2 anthropogenic emissions in Western Europe: a case study focused on Paris, Diego Santaren (LSCE, France)
• C6.5: An Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Remote Nadir Atmospheric Measurements of CO2, CH4 and the O2 A-band, Zahra Vaziri (York U., Canada)
• C6.6: Determining required signal-to-noise ratios for XCO2 and XCH4 precision targets: Application to AIM-North, Christopher Sioris (ECCC, Canada)
• C6.8: The MicroCarb L1 & L2 algorithms and performances, Denis Jouglet (CNES, France)
• C6.10: The challenges of measuring Methane from orbit, Haris Riris (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
• C6.11: A Cost Effective Laser-Based Enhancement of Passive Carbon Monitoring Approaches form GEO or LEO Orbits, Jeremy Dobler (Harris Corporation, USA)