DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4399884
title: Computing a correlation length scale from MFLL-OCO2 CO2 differences, and accounting for correlated errors when assimilating OCO-2 data

description: This dataset contains code and data used in 'A new exponentially-decaying error correlation model for assimilating OCO-2 column-average CO<sub>2</sub> data, using a length scale computed from airborne lidar measurements' by David F. Baker, Emily Bell, Kenneth J. Davis, Joel F. Campbell, Bing Lin, and Jeremy Dobler, submitted to Geoscientific Model Development. In particular, the MATLAB script used to compute the autocorrelation spectrum of Multi-functional Fiber Laser LiDAR (MFLL) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) column CO<sub>2</sub> differences (in Section 2.2 of the paper) is given here as file comp_MFLL_OCO2_autocorrl_spectrum.m along with the needed MFLL and OCO-2 CO<sub>2</sub> data for each of the six flights analyzed (as described in Section 2.1 of the paper) in files: 20160727_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20160805_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20170215_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20170308_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20171022_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20171027_mfll_averaged_L1_RA_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20160727_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20160805_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20170215_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20170308_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20171022_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5<br> 20171027_oco_averaged_B9_GMAO_ACTadj.h5 The MFLL data given here was downloaded in late 2018 in the form of L1b files (calibrated radiances), as described in Bell et al (2020). In the second part of the paper, different error correlation models are presented and applied to the averaging of OCO-2 column CO<sub>2</sub> data. The original bias-corrected OCO-2 data, in the form of daily OCO-2 version 10 "Lite" files, have been from obtained from NASA's GES DISC data repository, here:<br> https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/OCO2_L2_Lite_FP_10r/summary?keywords=OCO2_L2_Lite_FP The bias-corrected column CO<sub>2</sub> retrievals, their uncertainties, and other parameters needed for this analysis were extracted from these<br> "Lite" files and saved to daily files, which have been packaged up in the following compressed tarball:<br> OCO2_XCO2_2014_2020.tar.gz These daily files are read in and averaged across 2-second and 10-second spans (as described in Section 3.5 of the paper), using the different error correlation models outlined in the paper. The code that implements these averages is given in the following two FORTRAN programs: Make_OCO2_2sec_averages.f90<br> Make_OCO2_10sec_averages.f90 which need the following list of days having good OCO-2 data: OCO2_dates.txt Program "Make_OCO2_2sec_averages.f90" averages the OCO-2 data across a 2-second (~13.5 km long) span along the groundtrack, collapsing the relatively thin data swath into a one-dimensional data record, upon which the one-dimensional averaging models describe in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of the paper may be applied. Program "Make_OCO2_10sec_averages.f90" implements these averaging models, which average the 2-second averages across longer, 10-second (~67.5 km) spans. Please see the manuscript for more information on the data and methods provided here.
description: {"references": ["Bell, E., O'Dell, C.W., Davis, K.J., Campbell, J., Browell, E., Denning, A.S., Dobler, J., Erxleben, W., Fan, T.-F., Kooi, S., Lin, B., Pal, S., and Weir, B.: Evaluation of OCO\u20102 X$_{CO_{2}}$ Variability at Local and Synoptic Scales using Lidar and In Situ Observations from the ACT\u2010America Campaigns, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 125 (10), https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031400, 2020.", "Baker, D.F., Bell, E., Davis, K.J., Campbell, J.F., Lin, B.,, and Dobler, J.: Calculating an error correlation length scale from MFLL-OCO2 column-average CO2 differences and using it to average OCO-2 data, submitted to Geostatistical Model Development"]}