The irreversible trend for global warming underscores the necessity for accurate monitoring and analysis of atmospheric carbon dynamics on a global scale. Carbon satellites hold significant potential for atmospheric CO2 monitoring. However, existing studies on global CO2 are constrained by coarse resolution (ranging from 0.25° to 2°) and limited spatial coverage. In this study, we developed a new global dataset of column-averaged dry-air mole fraction of CO2 (XCO2) at 0.05° resolution with full coverage using carbon satellite observations, multi-source satellite products, and an improved deep learning model. We then investigated changes in global atmospheric CO2 and anomalies from 2015 to 2021. The reconstructed XCO2 products show a better agreement with Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) measurements, with R2 of 0.92 and RSME of 1.54 ppm. The products also provide more accurate information on the global and regional spatial patterns of XCO2 compared to origin carbon satellite monitoring and previous XCO2 products. The global pattern of XCO2 exhibited a distinct increasing trend with a growth rate of 2.32 ppm/year, reaching 414.00 ppm in 2021. Globally, XCO2 showed obvious spatial variability across different latitudes and continents. Higher XCO2 concentrations were primarily observed in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in regions with intensive anthropogenic activity, such as East Asia and North America. We also validated the effectiveness of our XCO2 products in detecting intensive CO2 emission sources.
| collect time | 2015/01/01 - 2021/12/31 |
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| collect place | Global |
| data size | 5.2 GiB |
| data format | .nc |
| Data spatial resolution (/ M) | 0.05° |
In this study, we utilized the satellite-based XCO2 data from OCO-2 and OCO-3, covering the period from December 2014 to December 2021. The OCO-2/3 measure at three near-infrared wavelength bands, that are 0.76 μm Oxygen A-band, 1.61 μm weak CO2, and 2.06 μm strong CO2 bands.In this research, we used the GGG2014 and GGG2020 datasets from 23 sites around the world to validate the reconstructed XCO2 products.
In this study, we utilized Google Earth Engine (GEE) to integrate OCO-2/3 XCO2 data and multiple environmental variables as data inputs. In addition, the attention-based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (At-BiLSTM) model was trained for building the relationship between OCO-2/3 XCO2 and the related environmental variables. Then, we reconstructed the global monthly XCO2 and validated the accuracyof the products against TCCON XCO2 data and the original OCO-2/3 XCO2 data. We also analyzed the spatial and temporal variation of XCO2 over the globe and detect theintense CO2 emission regions.
The data quality is good.
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| 1 | paper | A full-coverage satellite-based global atmospheric CO$_2$ dataset at 0.05{\degree | Z,Wang,C,Zhang,K,Shi,Y,Shangguan,B,Hu,X,Chen,D,Wei,S,Chen,P,M,Atkinson,Q,Zhang | 2024 |
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