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- Gerhard Ehret
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Philippe Bousquet
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), IPSL, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Clémence Pierangelo
- Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales(CNES), 31400 Toulouse, France
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- Matthias Alpers
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Raumfahrtmanagement (DLR), 53227 Bonn, Germany
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- Bruno Millet
- Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales(CNES), 31400 Toulouse, France
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- James Abshire
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Heinrich Bovensmann
- Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- John Burrows
- Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Frédéric Chevallier
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), IPSL, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Philippe Ciais
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), IPSL, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Cyril Crevoisier
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Andreas Fix
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Pierre Flamant
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Christian Frankenberg
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Fabien Gibert
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Birgit Heim
- Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI), Helmholtz -Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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- Martin Heimann
- Max-Planck-Institut (MPI) für Biogeochemie, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Sander Houweling
- SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research Utrecht, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Hans Hubberten
- Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI), Helmholtz -Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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- Patrick Jöckel
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Kathy Law
- Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), IPSL, CNRS-UVSQ-UPMC, 75005 Paris, France
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- Alexander Löw
- Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), 80539 München, Germany
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- Julia Marshall
- Max-Planck-Institut (MPI) für Biogeochemie, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Anna Agusti-Panareda
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading RG2 9AX, UK
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- Sebastien Payan
- Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), IPSL, CNRS-UVSQ-UPMC, 75005 Paris, France
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- Catherine Prigent
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris, 75016 Paris, France
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- Patrick Rairoux
- Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 Université Lyon 1-CNRS, Université de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Torsten Sachs
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam—Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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- Marko Scholze
- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University Box 117, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Martin Wirth
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234 Weßling, Germany
説明
<jats:p>The MEthane Remote sensing Lidar missioN (MERLIN) aims at demonstrating the spaceborne active measurement of atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, based on an Integrated Path Differential Absorption (IPDA) nadir-viewing LIght Detecting and Ranging (Lidar) instrument. MERLIN is a joint French and German space mission, with a launch currently scheduled for the timeframe 2021/22. The German Space Agency (DLR) is responsible for the payload, while the platform (MYRIADE Evolutions product line) is developed by the French Space Agency (CNES). The main scientific objective of MERLIN is the delivery of weighted atmospheric columns of methane dry-air mole fractions for all latitudes throughout the year with systematic errors small enough (<3.7 ppb) to significantly improve our knowledge of methane sources from global to regional scales, with emphasis on poorly accessible regions in the tropics and at high latitudes. This paper presents the MERLIN objectives, describes the methodology and the main characteristics of the payload and of the platform, and proposes a first assessment of the error budget and its translation into expected uncertainty reduction of methane surface emissions.</jats:p>
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- Remote Sensing
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Remote Sensing 9 (10), 1052-, 2017-10-16
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