CO2 Laser Sounder Lidar: Toward Atmospheric CO2 Measurements with High-Precision, Low-Bias and Global Coverage

Jianping Mao1, James B. Abshire2, Stephan R Kawa2, Haris Riris2, Graham R Allan3, William E Hasselbrack4, Kenji Numata2, Jeffrey R. Chen2, Xiaoli Sun2, Julie M Nicely1, Joshua P DiGangi5 and Yonghoon Choi6, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Hexagon US Federal, Lanham, MD, United States, (4)ATA Aerospace, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States