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CarbonTrackerThe NOAA CarbonTracker team:
Wouter Peters, Andy Jacobson, Ken Masarie, Pieter Tans, John B. Miller, Arlyn Andrews, Colm Sweeney, Tom Conway, Lori Bruhwiler, Gabrielle Pétron, Adam Hirsch
External collaborators:
Doug Worthy, Jim Randerson, Guido van der Werf, Britt Stephens
• What is CarbonTracker?
• How is it used?
• How well does it work?
• How will it be improved?
• Summary: Why?
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CarbonTracker is:
• A global surface flux inversion
• NOAA’s estimate of N. American fluxes
• Our final screen for data quality
• A “reference” solution
• An outreach tool
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CarbonTracker is:
• A global surface flux inversion
• NOAA’s estimate of N. American fluxes
• Our final screen for data quality
• A “reference” solution
• An outreach tool
CarbonTracker 2007B: N. America fluxes in PgC yr-1.Year First Guess NEE Final NEE Fires FF Total2000 -0.16 ± 0.89 -0.64 ± 0.65 0.04 1.91 1.31 ± 0.652001 -0.16 ± 0.90 -0.45 ± 0.64 0.02 1.92 1.50 ± 0.642002 0.03 ± 0.85 -0.17 ± 0.55 0.03 1.92 1.78 ± 0.552003 -0.21 ± 0.84 -0.64 ± 0.52 0.03 1.94 1.33 ± 0.522004 -0.19 ± 0.90 -0.79 ± 0.48 0.02 1.98 1.20 ± 0.482005 -0.20 ± 0.87 -0.76 ± 0.48 0.02 1.99 1.26 ± 0.482006 -0.04 ± 0.84 -0.56 ± 0.37 0.02 1.99 1.45 ± 0.37
CarbonTracker 2007B: N. America fluxes in PgC yr-1.Year First Guess NEE Final NEE Fires FF Total2000 -0.16 ± 0.89 -0.64 ± 0.65 0.04 1.91 1.31 ± 0.652001 -0.16 ± 0.90 -0.45 ± 0.64 0.02 1.92 1.50 ± 0.642002 0.03 ± 0.85 -0.17 ± 0.55 0.03 1.92 1.78 ± 0.552003 -0.21 ± 0.84 -0.64 ± 0.52 0.03 1.94 1.33 ± 0.522004 -0.19 ± 0.90 -0.79 ± 0.48 0.02 1.98 1.20 ± 0.482005 -0.20 ± 0.87 -0.76 ± 0.48 0.02 1.99 1.26 ± 0.482006 -0.04 ± 0.84 -0.56 ± 0.37 0.02 1.99 1.45 ± 0.37
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CarbonTracker is:
• A global surface flux inversion
• NOAA’s estimate of N. American fluxes
• Our final screen for data quality
• A “reference” solution
• An outreach tool
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CarbonTracker is:
• A global surface flux inversion
• NOAA’s estimate of N. American fluxes
• Our final screen for data quality
• A “reference” solution
• An outreach tool
surements of the CO2 total column. The satellite retrievalsare compared with global XCO2 obtained from NOAA’s CO2 assimilation system CarbonTracker taking into account thespatio-temporal sampling and altitude sensitivity of the satel-lite data. We show that the measured CO2 year-to-year in-crease agrees within about 1 ppm/year with CarbonTracker.We also show that the latitude dependent amplitude of thenorthern hemispheric CO2 seasonal cycle agrees with Car-bonTracker within about 2 ppm with the retrieved amplitudebeing systematically larger. The analysis demonstrates that
surements of the CO2 total column. The satellite retrievalsare compared with global XCO2 obtained from NOAA’s CO2assimilation system CarbonTracker taking into account thespatio-temporal sampling and altitude sensitivity of the satel-lite data. We show that the measured CO2 year-to-year in-crease agrees within about 1 ppm/year with CarbonTracker.We also show that the latitude dependent amplitude of thenorthern hemispheric CO2 seasonal cycle agrees with Car-bonTracker within about 2 ppm with the retrieved amplitudebeing systematically larger. The analysis demonstrates that
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CarbonTracker is:
• A global surface flux inversion
• NOAA’s estimate of N. American fluxes
• Our final screen for data quality
• A “reference” solution
• An outreach tool
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>To: carbontracker.team
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Dear Pieter et al:
This is really great, thank you for putting this together. I will certainly be using your figures and explanations in the lectures I give to my undergraduates about the C
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2 syste
m. They really want to know the facts and the most recent data are always of great interest to young people since it conveys the immediacy of the proble
m. I had found it increasingly difficult to get hold of so
me of the most recent basic information over the last fe
w years, this web resource has
made it much easier.
I am particularly happy to get the Mauna Loa data through 2006.
Thanks for facilitating teaching as well as research,
Cheers, Chris MeasuresOceanography, University of Hawaii
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How is CarbonTracker used?
PNAS article appears & CT2007B update released: Dec, 2007
“pre-AGU bounce”,Nov-Dec 2007First release,
February 2007
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How is CarbonTracker used?
CollaborationsCarbonTracker for other regions• Europe - Wageningen Univ.• Asia - Korean Met Agency• South America - CPTEC, Brazil and LBA, NASA
Regional inversions• North America (with U. Michigan)• Africa (with NASA’s ACE-2 project)• Japan (with Osaka University)
Satellite missions• Ongoing comparison with TCCON network• CSU OCO inversion• SCIAMACHY methane and CO2
NACP, Ameriflux, Canadian Flux net
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
A source of educational material• a means to foster research Note seasonal cycle
~18 month burn-in
Mauna Loa, Hawaii - continuous
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
A source of educational material• a means to foster research
Mauna Loa, Hawaii - continuous
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
seasonal cycle?
Mauna Loa, Hawaii - continuous
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
Model biased high in summertoo diffusive?
too little uptake?
Model biased low in wintertoo diffusive?
too little outgassing?
Leptokurtic:distribution dominated by big outliers
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
South Pole - continuous
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
Park Falls, Wisconsin - WLEF tower at 396m: afternoon averages
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
Relatively good
agreement
15-18 July
Relatively good
agreement
15-18 July
Model too high
25-28 July
Model too high
25-28 July
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How well does CarbonTracker work?
Relatively good
agreement
15-18 July
Model too high
25-28 July
STILT footprints for WLEF 396m afternoon averages
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How well does CarbonTracker work?Aircraft residuals by latitude band and season
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Improving CarbonTracker
Better meteorology• higher resolution ECMWF• adding NWS GFS to ensemble (underway)• optimizing for vertical transport (underway)• new NOAA models - WRF and FIMM
Add more observations• light aircraft (underway)• expanded N. American network for 2007 (underway)• TCCON & OCO• GlobalView partners (underway)
Other species• methane (underway)• carbon monoxide, isotopes?
Better subsystems• land (underway), ocean (underway)• fossil fuels: better prior (underway); optimization?
Couple with LPDM inversions
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Improving CarbonTracker
Better meteorology• higher resolution ECMWF• adding NWS GFS to ensemble (underway)• optimizing for vertical transport (underway)• new NOAA models - WRF and FIMM
Add more observations• light aircraft (underway)• expanded N. American network for 2007 (underway)• TCCON & OCO• GlobalView partners (underway)
Other species• methane (underway)• carbon monoxide, isotopes?
Better subsystems• land (underway), ocean (underway)• fossil fuels: better prior (underway); optimization?
Couple with LPDM inversions
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Improving CarbonTracker
Better meteorology• higher resolution ECMWF• adding NWS GFS to ensemble (underway)• optimizing for vertical transport (underway)• new NOAA models - WRF and FIMM
Add more observations• light aircraft (underway)• expanded N. American network for 2007 (underway)• TCCON & OCO• GlobalView partners (underway)
Other species• methane (underway)• carbon monoxide, isotopes?
Better subsystems• land (underway), ocean (underway)• fossil fuels: better prior (underway); optimization?
Couple with LPDM inversions
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Improving CarbonTracker
Better meteorology• higher resolution ECMWF• adding NWS GFS to ensemble (underway)• optimizing for vertical transport (underway)• new NOAA models - WRF and FIMM
Add more observations• light aircraft (underway)• expanded N. American network for 2007 (underway)• TCCON & OCO• GlobalView partners (underway)
Other species• methane (underway)• carbon monoxide, isotopes?
Better subsystems• land (underway), ocean (underway)• fossil fuels: better prior (underway); optimization?
Couple with LPDM inversionsh
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Improving CarbonTracker
Better meteorology• higher resolution ECMWF• adding NWS GFS to ensemble (underway)• optimizing for vertical transport (underway)• new NOAA models - WRF and FIMM
Add more observations• light aircraft (underway)• expanded N. American network for 2007 (underway)• TCCON & OCO• GlobalView partners (underway)
Other species• methane (underway)• carbon monoxide, isotopes?
Better subsystems• land (underway), ocean (underway)• fossil fuels: better prior (underway); optimization?
Couple with LPDM inversions
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Why CarbonTracker?For NOAA
• as part of a functional observing system• to understand changes
• to look for issues in data
• as a synthesis of the global carbon cycle
For science
• to learn about transport deficiencies• to improve the terrestrial, oceanic, and
fossil fuel process models• to quantify how well we can resolve fluxes
(synthetic data experiments)• to evaluate new observational sites and
sampling methods via OSSEs
For the public
• as an educational tool
• to provide policy-relevant information on CO2
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Why CarbonTracker?For NOAA
• as part of a functional observing system• to understand changes
• to look for issues in data
• as a synthesis of the global carbon cycle
For science
• to learn about transport deficiencies• to improve the terrestrial, oceanic, and
fossil fuel process models• to quantify how well we can resolve fluxes
(synthetic data experiments)• to evaluate new observational sites and
sampling methods via OSSEs
For the public
• as an educational tool
• to provide policy-relevant information on CO2
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