Advantages of assimilating multispectral satellite retrievals of atmospheric composition: a demonstration using MOPITT carbon monoxide products

Tang, W., Gaubert, B., Emmons, L., Ziskin, D., Mao, D., Edwards, D., Arellano, A., Raeder, K., Anderson, J., and Worden, H.: Advantages of assimilating multispectral satellite retrievals of atmospheric composition: a demonstration using MOPITT carbon monoxide products, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 1941–1963, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1941-2024, 2024.

Teaser image
Figure 1 Averaging kernel (AK) rows for MOPITT retrieval types TIR only, NIR only, and multispectral TIR+NIR. Global average of AKs during July and August 2018 are shown.
Teaser summary