University of Toronto

Published purpose

The project name is ""CO in the Canadian boreal forest and urban centres"". CO is an atmospheric gas that impacts urban air quality and the global carbon cycle. This project will combine atmospheric observations and modelling of CO to: • Validate Canada's MOPITT instrument measurements with data from the ground based Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON). • Assess the impacts of wildfires on the carbon cycle of the boreal forest. • Quantify global urban ratios of CO to carbon dioxide (CO2) to estimate urban emissions. MOPITT and ground-based datasets will be complemented by CO2 measurements from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and JAXA's Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT).