Reviews and syntheses: Flying the satellite into your model: on the role of observation operators in constraining models of the Earth system and the carbon cycle

Kaminski, Thomas; Mathieu, Pierre-Philippe

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2343-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2343-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2343-2017

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Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

Reviews and syntheses

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08 May 2017

Reviews and syntheses |

| 08 May 2017

Reviews and syntheses: Flying the satellite into your model: on the role of observation operators in constraining models of the Earth system and the carbon cycle

Thomas Kaminski and Pierre-Philippe Mathieu

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Jun 2016
RC2: 'Comments on the manuscript entitled "Reviews and Syntheses: Flying the Satellite into Your Model" submitted by Thomas Kaminski and Pierre-Philippe Mathieu for publication in Biogeosciences (Ms. bg-2016-237).', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Sep 2016
AC1: 'Thanks for the helpful comments', Thomas Kaminski, 26 Dec 2016

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (30 Dec 2016) by Marko Scholze

AR by Thomas Kaminski on behalf of the Authors (13 Jan 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Jan 2017) by Marko Scholze

AR by Thomas Kaminski on behalf of the Authors (20 Jan 2017)

Short summary

This paper provides the formalism and examples of how observation operators can be used, in combination with data assimilation or retrieval techniques, to better ingest satellite products in a manner consistent with the dynamics of the Earth system expressed by models.