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CO2M Mission
The Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring (CO2M) is a major European initiative developed to monitor and quantify carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen dioxide emissions, specifically from human activities, on a global scale. CO2M mission is being developed by European Space Agency (ESA) in collaboration with the European Commission (EC) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellite (EUMETSAT), as part of the Copernicus Sentinel Expansion missions for the Eureopean Union. CO2M will be the first to measure how much carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere specifically through human activity. These pages are part of the support studies for the definition of requirements for the routine monitoring and scientific validation of CO2M GHG products.
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Routine monitoring and scientific validation of GHG products
The content of this website is part of the results from the EUMETSAT projects CO2M Cal/Val requirements science support - Phase 1 and CO2M Cal/Val science support - Cal/Val Phase II.
The Phase II (June 2025 - ongoing) study is lead by the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) in partnership with:
- The Inversion Lab (iLab)
- S&T Netherlands B.V. (S&T) and
- Matthias Buschmann Environmental Research (MBER),
- with BIRA-IASB also providing the service management.
The Phase I (July 2021 - June 2024) study was lead by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in partnership with:
- the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy,
- the University of Bremen and
- the Inversion Lab,
- with LMU also providing the service management.
Access to the Cal/Val database
This website provides access to the Cal/Val database for continuous Cal/Val and monitoring of operational CO2M products.
The key parameters of existing stations can be viewed via a global map. A visualisation of the global plots of satellite level-3 files of trace gases, emission inventory databases and potential other relevant parameters is provided. The database is linked to these maps with the possibility to over plot the parameters from the database in the global plots.
This task is lead by the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (Phase I & II) in collaboration with:
- the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, (Phase I)
- the University of Bremen (Phase I)
- The Inversion Lab (Phase I & II)
- S&T Netherlands B.V. (S&T) (Phase II) and
- Matthias Buschmann Environmental Research (MBER) (Phase II).
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