NASA's Carbon Cycle OSSE Initiative - Informing future space-based observing strategies through advanced modeling and data assimilation

Lesley Ott1, Piers J Sellers1, David Schimel2, Berrien Moore III3, Christopher O'Dell4, Sean Crowell5, Stephan R Kawa6, Steven Pawson7, Abhishek Chatterjee8, David F Baker9 and Andrew E Schuh10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)University of Rochester, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (8)GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States, (10)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States