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hartmann@lisa.univ-paris12.fr Spectral shapes modeling and remote sensing of greenhouse gases. Toward the OCO and GOSAT experiments and future HITRAN issues Jean-Michel HARTMANN L.I.S.A. (CNRS and Universit Paris VII and Paris XII) Crteil, FRANCE and Geoffrey TOON (JPL), Ha TRAN (LISA) but also Christian BOULET, Linda BROWN, Andr BUTZ, Christian FRANKENBERG, Robert GAMACHE, Frank HASE, J. LAMOUROUX, Ann LARIA,,

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Monitoring GreenHouse Gases from space Nadir looking instruments onbord sattelites Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO, NASA, launch failed but OCO2 coming) Greenhouse gases Observation SATellite (GOSAT, JAXA-NIES, in orbit) MiniCarb (CNES, under study) Spectral regions and aims. - CO 2 from 1.6 m (weak) and 2.1 m (strong) bands - Air mass from O 2 A band (near 762 nm - CH4 from 2 3 band (near 1.7 m) - aerosols from CO 2 and O 2 bands Detection/quantifying sinks and source Extreme accuracy of spectra modelings (0.3 %). Huge constraints on the spectroscopic data and the prediction of pressure effects (collisions and spectral-shape New issues for HITRAN database

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Spectral shapes and HITRAN Basic Isolated line shape: Voigt Convolution of Lorentz (collisions) and Gaussian (Doppler). HITRAN provides almost all needed data (except T dep of shift and self broad, broadening by H 2 O) Refined Isolated line shape: speed dependence and Dicke narrowing Effects of the speed dependences of collisional width and shift and of velocity changes. HITRAN does not provide any data. _______________________________________________________________ Collisionally coupled Lines: Line-mixing, no SD nor Dicke Modeled through the relaxation matrix W whose size is N C xN C where N C is the number of coupled lines (block diagonal with respect to bands) HITRAN does not provide any data. Speed dependent Dicke narrowed Line-mixing profiles: Very complex problem, still to be studied in laboratories _______________________________________________________________ Collision Induced Absorption (CIA) Electric dipole moment induced during collisions. Weak and broad absorption features. HITRAN does not provide any data

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CO 2 : Ground-based atmospheric solar absorption 2.1 m band Spectra: Sza 79.9, Park Falls Wrong time and air-mass dependences Largely erroneous conclusions on sinks and sources (huge source at poles, huge sink at mid-latitudes

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CO2 1.6 micron band

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O 2 : Ground-based atmospheric solar absorption A-band Spectra: Sza 79.9, Park Falls Wrong time and airmass dependences Large errors on air masses or pressure vertical profiles for high North and South latitudes

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O2 1.27 micron band

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CH 4 : Ground-based atmospheric solar absorption 2 3 band Spectra: air mass 5.7, Park Falls Wrong time and airmass dependences Largely erroneous conclusions on sinks and sources

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Spectroscopic data: isolated lines Voigt profiles (no SD, no Dicke) CO2 bands: Toth essentially identical to HITRAN2008 except for widths O2 A-band: HITRAN2008 (Brown, Robichaud, others) CH4 2 3 : a mixture of Frankenberg, Nikitin and Pine What we have used (state of the art ?) Line mixing data: off-diagonal W matrix elements CO 2 bands: Niro et al (2005). Self consistent model for all bands No use NB: Adjustment of model in 720 cm -1 Q branch. No use of present NIR bands O 2 A-band: Tran et al (2008). Model developed from O 2 A band at elevated pressure. No use NB: No use of low pressure spectra CH 4 : Tran et al (2006). Self consistent model for 3, 4 and 2 3 bands) NB: Adjustment of model in 3 band at high pressure. No use of present NIR band Collision Induced Absorption O 2 A-band: Tran et al (2008). From analysis of O 2 A band at elevated pressure. No use NB: No use of low pressure spectra

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Validation of LM model using laboratory spectra: O 2 and CO 2 76.0 atm 47.6 atm 28.1 atm ___ measurement, ___ LM ___ Lorentz O2 A bandCO2 band

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Validation of LM model using laboratory spectra: CH 4 2 3 band With effective line-broadening and shifting and with Voigt profiles: Frankenberg et al., ACP, 2008 (and HITRAN 2008) With true line-broadening and shifting coeffs. and with LM (black), Voigt (red)

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Consequences for atmospheric spectra: O 2 A band case Spectra: Sza 79.9, Park Falls Significantly reduced residuals but some structures remain

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O 2 A band: Relative errors on surface pressures retrieved from atmospheric spectra

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Consequences for atmospheric spectra: CO 2 2.1 m region Spectra: Sza 79.9, Park Falls Significantly reduced residuals but some structures remain

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Scaling factor, applied to the a priori CO 2 vmr profile, retrieved from fits Inclusion of LM reduces air mass dependence and inconsistency between Results from weak and strong CO 2 band. But still slight air mass dependence for large air masses

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Consequences for atmospheric spectra: The CH 4 2 3 case

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Methane amounts (ratio of the total CH 4 column to the total air column) retrieved from atmospheric spectra

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Getting closer to OCO/GOSAT needed accuracy Accounting for LM in CH 4 (2 3 ), CO 2 (2.1 m) and O 2 (A-band) and for CIA in O 2 necessary. When done, transmission fits residuals between -0.01 and +0.01. Small but still above noise level and showing systematic and structured features. Still insufficient HITRAN 2008 may not be the best Need for a very careful and critical inter-comparison of available isolated line data CO2: Toth et al, Predoi-Cross et al, Benner et al, . O2: Brown et al, Predoi-Cross et al, Robichaud et al, Hodges et al, . CH4: Frankenberg et al, Nikitin et al, Lyulin et al, Wang et al, Analysis of CH4 lab measurements by including LM to be done Lab recordings of 2 m CO2 band and analysis with LM needed Need for a very careful and critical intercomparison of Line-Mixing CO2: Tran et al, Predoi-Cross et al, Benner et al O2: Tran et al, Filippov et al Need for a very careful and critical intercomparison of CIA O2: Tran et al, van der Zande et al Need to study SD and Dicke effects: Theoretical work need, influence on atmospheric transmissions to be done

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Future HITRAN issues Updates Include results of intercomparison and new measurements for isolated line parameters. New features: -Include line shift T dependence (some results available) - Include self broadening T dependence for O 2 (some results available) - Include broadening by H 2 O and T dep (some results available for CO 2 lines, no negligible effect in remote sensing) - Include LM: must be done on the side since different structure. Store relaxation files and related spectroscopic data. Eventually provide software (eg: Lamouroux et al, Tran et al) NB: needs to kind of standardization -Speed dependence and Dicke effects: What is to be stored ? Not obvious, thinking necessary. Theoretical work starting at LISA