A Multi-pronged Effort to Evaluate OCO-2 XCO2 and Tie Retrievals to Surface Observing Networks using AirCore

Bianca Baier1, Colm Sweeney2, Arlyn Andrews2, Andrew R Jacobson1, Jack Higgs2, Timothy Newberger3, Sonja Wolter3, Philip Handley4, Gregory B Osterman5, Frank Hase6 and Florian Dietrich7, (1)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-ASF, Karlsruhe, Germany, (7)Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany