Remote Sensing of Greenhouse Gases
John P. Burrows, H. Bovensmann, M. Buchwitz, O. Schnesing K. Gerlowksi, M.
Reuter, T. Krings, J. Heymann, S. Noel + + +
Institute of Environmental Physics and Remote Sensing,
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Tel: +4942121862100
Fax:+494212185455 Email: [email protected]
The SCIAMACHY (Scanning Imaging Absorption spectrometer for Atmospheric
CHartographY) began in the early 1980s. It generated the GOME, Global Ozone
Monitoring Experiment, on ESA ERS-2 (1995 to 2011), SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT
(2002 to 2012), and the GeoSCIA/GeoTROPE concepts. One of the original
SCIAMACHY objectives is to make measurements of the columns of CO 2 , CH4, N2O
and H2O. SCIAMACHY is the first instrument in space yielding the dry column of
CO2 and CH4 including the boundary layer column. In addition the UB team has
developed an aircraft instrument, MaMap+IDOAS, which measures at high spatial
resolution and yields the columns of CO2, CH4, NO2, CHO.CHO, O2 and proposed
the CarbonSat, CarbonSat Constellation and SCIA-ISS projects and is co-I of OCO
and GRIPS.
Figure 1 The retrieval of total dry column of CH4 for the years 2003 to 2005 from
SCIAMACHY.