- Intern: Sagar Limbu
- Mentors: Karen Yuen and Charles Thompson
OCO2 is the first dedicated satellite to study Carbon Dioxide launched in July 2, 2014 and OCO3 is the sister of OCO2 because it has similar instrument sensitivity and performance characteristics to OCO2. When flying a payload on the International Space Station (ISS), the OCO3 mission was designed to fly with the flight spare. This means we have 2 of the same instruments that is currently flying and since they fly differently - polar orbit versus a processing orbit This is really fantastic opportunity for science because It really permits NASA to study CO2 over different areas of the globe.
- Using the following libraries to perform data preprocessing before data anlysis and visualization
- Libraries: dask, netCDF, pandas, numpy
- Using different libraries for data visualization
- Libraries: matplotlib, Plotly, Basemap, seaborn
The Earth system maintains checks and balances on carbon dioxide through the carbon cycle and what we call sources and sinks. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important Greenhouse Gases (GHG) that supports life on Earth and the primary GHG quantifiable from anthropogenic sources. Thus, it is important to understand the role of atmospheric CO2 in understanding the carbon cycle balance. The primary science objective of the OCO-2 and OCO-3 missions is to collect the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) dry air mole fraction, XCO2, with the precision, resolution, and coverage needed to improve our understanding of surface CO2 sources and sinks (fluxes) on regional scales. The main objective of the project is to display datapoints of XCO2 and showing the change over time that can provide a status of the atmospheric Carbon cycle variability by the given year.
- Each individual file has different instructions and steps