Vol. 35, issue 03, article # 3

Abstract:

Modern changes in the Earth's climate due to increase in greenhouse gas concentrations, primarily carbon dioxide, stimulate the monitoring of its content by various methods. In the study, we compared CO₂ content in the lower stratosphere (12–18 km altitude layer) from ground-based Bruker 125HR spectrometer and satellite ACE instrument measurements in 2009–2019. The analysis of two measurement types shows a good agreement between them. Ground-based CO₂ measurements, on average, exceed satellite data by 2.8 ppm (less than 1%), standard deviations of the differences are ~ 5.0 ppm. The correlation coefficient between two datasets is 0.77. Ground-based (Bruker 125HR) and satellite (ACE) CO₂ measurements show weak seasonal variations, opposite to the variations in tropospheric CO₂. The CO₂ content in the lower stratosphere is maximal in summer and minimal in winter.

Keywords:

CO2 measurements in the stratosphere, carbon dioxide monitoring, ground-based spectroscopic measurements, satellite measurements, Bruker 125HR, ACE-FTS

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