Counting Carbon Over Southern California

NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 calibrated its sensors by taking data from an area where ground stations could provide ground truth.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the OCO-2 science team at NASA-JPL and Caltech. Background image from Landsat 8. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published November 7, 2014
Data acquired September 5, 2014

Source:

OCO-2

Topic:

Atmosphere > Atmospheric Chemistry > Carbon Dioxide