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MERLIN: The German-French Methane Remote Lidar Mission

Kiemle, Christoph und Ehret, Gerhard und Bousquet, Philippe und Fix, Andreas und Wirth, Martin (2016) MERLIN: The German-French Methane Remote Lidar Mission. 16th ONERA-DLR Aerospace Symposium ODAS, 2016-06-21 - 2016-06-23, Operpfaffenhofen.

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Methane is the third most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere after water vapor and carbon dioxide, and responsible for about 20% of the warming induced by long-lived greenhouse gases since pre-industrial times. Concentrations of atmospheric methane have tripled since then, arguably the largest global change in atmospheric composition caused by human beings. Increases leveled off abruptly between 1990 and 2005, and then started to rise sharply again, for reasons not yet well determined. This is mainly due to a lack of accurate and global observations of methane for quantifying biosphere-atmosphere exchange processes and related climate feedbacks. Space-based missions using lidar as an active remote sensor have potential to complement the current greenhouse gas observing systems by closing observational gaps, e.g., over subarctic permafrost and tropical wetlands, where in-situ and passive remote sensing techniques have difficulties in providing robust flux estimates. Furthermore, the lidar data are expected to have a principally low bias, not influenced by aerosol layers or thin cirrus clouds. Consequently, a “Methane Remote Lidar Mission” (MERLIN) was proposed by the German and French space agencies DLR and CNES. MERLIN has successfully completed Phase B; launch is foreseen in 2020. Primary objective is to provide accurate global observations of methane concentration gradients for inverse numerical models in order to better quantify regional fluxes. Spin-off products are global cloud cover and canopy height. Wetlands, the most important natural methane sources, show at the same time the largest uncertainty and variability. Wetlands are abundant in remote tropical and high-latitude regions, challenging the deployment of in-situ instrumentation. On the other hand, space-borne passive remote sensing is hindered in the tropics by frequently occurring deep convection, and blind at high latitudes due to lack of sunlight. In the tropics it is expected that MERLIN will measure in between clouds, thanks to its small field of view, while its coverage at high latitudes will be particularly dense thanks to overlapping ascending and descending orbits.

elib-URL des Eintrags:https://elib.dlr.de/106527/
Dokumentart:Konferenzbeitrag (Vortrag)
Titel:MERLIN: The German-French Methane Remote Lidar Mission
Autoren:
AutorenInstitution oder E-Mail-AdresseAutoren-ORCID-iDORCID Put Code
Kiemle, ChristophDLR, IPAhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1231-2813NICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Ehret, GerhardDLR, IPANICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Bousquet, PhilippeLSCE-IPSLNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Fix, AndreasDLR, IPANICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Wirth, MartinDLR, IPANICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Datum:Juni 2016
Referierte Publikation:Nein
Open Access:Ja
Gold Open Access:Nein
In SCOPUS:Nein
In ISI Web of Science:Nein
Status:veröffentlicht
Stichwörter:methane, lidar, Merlin
Veranstaltungstitel:16th ONERA-DLR Aerospace Symposium ODAS
Veranstaltungsort:Operpfaffenhofen
Veranstaltungsart:internationale Konferenz
Veranstaltungsbeginn:21 Juni 2016
Veranstaltungsende:23 Juni 2016
Veranstalter :DLR
HGF - Forschungsbereich:Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt und Verkehr
HGF - Programm:Raumfahrt
HGF - Programmthema:Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Schwerpunkt:Raumfahrt
DLR - Forschungsgebiet:R EO - Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Teilgebiet (Projekt, Vorhaben):R - LIDAR-Forschung und - Entwicklung
Standort: Oberpfaffenhofen
Institute & Einrichtungen:Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre > Lidar
Hinterlegt von: Kiemle, Dr.rer.nat. Christoph
Hinterlegt am:13 Okt 2016 08:33
Letzte Änderung:24 Apr 2024 20:11

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