GOSAT Series
Research Announcements
- Jun 3, 2019 The selection result of the first Research Announcement on Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite Series (the 1st GOSAT RA)
- Nov 22, 2018 GOSAT RA application deadline extended
The application deadline for Research Announcement on Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Series (GOSAT RA) has been extended until Friday, November 30, 2018. If you have difficulty in preparing all the documents to apply for GOSAT RA by the due date, please contact the secretariat at gosat-prj1[at]nies.go.jp. - Sep 21, 2018The first Research Announcement on Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Series issued.
The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) has been observing global atmospheric greenhouse gases steadily even today, in the ninth year since its launch in January 2009. The successor, GOSAT-2 will also be launched in 2018. As for research announcement (RA), we have issued eleven times to solicit research proposals using GOSAT data since 2008. This time, the RA for the research utilizing both GOSAT and GOSAT-2 data entitled “the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Series Research Announcement (GOSAT RA)” was issued anew. If you plan to conduct research using GOSAT and GOSAT-2 data, please read the following documents carefully and send your research proposal and application documents to the GOSAT RA Secretariat by the due date. We are really looking forward to receiving your original proposals.
- Schedules for the GOSAT RA
- Issuance of research announcement: Thursday, September 21, 2018
- Application deadline: Tuesday, November 21, 2018
- New application deadline: Friday, November 30, 2018
- Notification of selection results: Monday, June 3, 2019 and later
- The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Series Research Announcement (pdf 193KB)
- Appendix A GOSAT/GOSAT-2 Data Policy (pdf 177KB)
- Appendix B General Terms and Conditions for the Joint Research Agreement in accordance with the Research Announcement on Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Series (pdf 158KB)
- Appendix C-1 Application form for the Joint Research Agreement in accordance with the Research Announcement on Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Series (GOSAT RA) (docx 15KB)
- Appendix C-2 Guidelines for research proposal and related forms (doc 80KB)
- Form for researchers living or staying in the European Economic Area (EEA) (docx 30KB)
We appreciate all the researchers who submitted their research proposals in response to the first Research Announcement on Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite Series (the 1st GOSAT RA). All proposals were evaluated by the GOSAT RA Selection and Evaluation Committee, and we would like to inform you that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOE) have jointly decided to adopt 37 research proposals to carry out joint research based on evaluations by the committee. Listed below are the adopted 36 proposals except the one canceled after the adoption from unavoidable circumstances.
| Principal Investigator | Research Organization | Research Theme |
|---|---|---|
| Calibration | ||
| Santiago Gassó | Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland (USA) | Evaluation of the UV channels in the CAI/CAI-2 sensors in GOSAT/GOSAT-2 with the Ozone Monitoring Profiler Suite-Nadir Mapper |
| Data processing algorithms | ||
| Yu Someya | Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan) | Retrievals of CFC-11 and CFC-12 from the GOSAT-2 thermal infrared spectra |
| Thomas Wagner | Satellite Remote Sensing, Max Plank Institute for Chemistry (Germany) | Non-standard cloud products: Determination of cloud properties and photon path length statistics |
| Naoko Saitoh | Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University (Japan) | Studies on atmospheric minor constituents and polar stratospheric clouds retrieved from thermal infrared spectra of TANSO-FTS |
| Hartmut Boesch | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester (UK) | Retrieval methods for greenhouses gases to study the surface-atmosphere exchange |
| Itaru Sano | Kindai University (Japan) | Estimation of aerosol properties based on combined use of multi-satellite data |
| Nawo Eguchi | Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyusyu University (Japan) | Retrieval of cirrus cloud parameters from TANSO‐ FTS spectra and investigation of global cirrus cloud variations |
| André Butz | Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg (Germany) | Retrievals of atmospheric CO2 from GOSAT observations based on accurate vector radiative transfer modeling of scattering atmospheres |
| Hannakaisa Lindqvist | Space and Earth Observation Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) | The impact of aerosol and cloud scattering on greenhouse gas and SIF retrievals from GOSAT and GOSAT-2 |
| Mikhail Yurievich Kataev | Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics (Russia) | Research of the non-parametric methods for processing measurement data of the FTS GOSAT and software applications development |
| Carbon balance estimation, atmospheric transport models | ||
| Paul Palmer | School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh (UK) | Towards an improved understanding of the tropical carbon cycle, including an improved knowledge of CO2 and CH4 source attribution. |
| Takashi Maki | Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency (Japan) | Four dimensional data assimilation of GOSAT observation data using a local ensemble transform Karman Filter |
| Ray Nassar | Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canada) | Quantifying carbon fluxes from local to global scales |
| Tuula Aalto | Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) | GHG balances using remote sensing, FTIR spectroscopy, In situ measurements, atmospheric inverse modeling and earth system modeling |
| Validation | ||
| Michael Buchwitz | Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, FB1 (Germany) | Towards CONsistent long-term SCIAMACHY and GOSAT greenhouse gas data sets (CONSCIGO) |
| Takashi Sugita | Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan) | A comparison study on CH4 column amounts derived from TANSO/FTS, aircraft, and stratospheric limb observations |
| Kimberly Strong | Department of Physics, University of Toronto (Canada) | Validation of GOSAT and GOSAT-2 SWIR and TIR data products using ground-based and satellite measurements |
| Yutaka Matsumi | Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University (Japan) | Validation of GOSAT FTS and CAI using compact instruments |
| Nicholas Deutscher | Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Wollongong (Australia) | Validation of NIES retrieval of GOSAT-2 XCO using TCCON ground based measurements (Validation of satellite-based SWIR XCO in the southern hemisphere, and assessment of its spatial and temporal variability) |
| Sébastien PAYAN | LATMOS, Sorbonne Université & CNRS (France) | Calibration and validation of GOSAT-2 in the TIR bands using IASI |
| Makoto Abo | Faculty of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) | Validation of the SWIR/TIR products using temperature and gas concentration profiles by the ground-based differential absorption lidar |
| Yi Liu | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science (China) | GOSAT-2 (GOSAT) validation in China |
| Rigel Kivi | Space and Earth Observation Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) | Validation of GOSAT and GOSAT-2 measurements at Sodankylä, Finland |
| Data Application | ||
| Mukunda Gogoi | Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space Research Organization (India) | Assimilation of space-borne CAI-2 aerosol retrievals in conjunction with ground-based point measurements over south Asia for advanced quantitative information and improved understanding of the radiative implications of aerosols. |
| Makiko Nakata | Kindai University (Japan) | Estimation of properties and emissions of atmospheric aerosols based on the GOSAT/CAI data |
| Sachiko Hayashida | Faculty of Science, Nara Woman's University (Japan) | Analysis of GOSAT methane data to characterize the methane source from rice paddies in Asia |
| Ricaud Philippe | CNRM, Météo-France/CNRS (France) | N2O sources estimated from GOSAT-2 observations |
| Lim Hwee San | School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia) | Regression analysis in modeling of carbon dioxide and factors affecting its value in Peninsular Malaysia |
| Juying Warner | University of Maryland (USA) | Distributions and trends of N2O and CH4 from GOSAT-2 compared with other international hyperspectral sensors – GOSAT, AIRS/CrIS, IASI, and HIRAS |
| Voltaire A. Velazco | Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Wollongong (Australia) | Towards tracking the transport of emissions over the tropical western Pacific using GOSAT and GOSAT-2 |
| Shamil Maksyutov | Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan) | Estimation of the anthropogenic CO2 and CH4 emissions from the spatial concentration distribution around large point sources |
| Liping Lei | Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Science (China) | Study on relationship between land use/cover types and spatio-temporal distribution of greenhouse gases in China. |
| Nawo Eguchi | Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyusyu University (Japan) | Study of stratosphere-troposphere exchange and tropospheric dynamical processes by using the GOSAT data |
| Yusheng Shi | Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Science (China) | Biomass burning CO2 estimation from GOSAT observations in different terrestrial ecosystem |
| Hibiki Noda | Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan) | Application of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence; Estimation of photosynthetic production by terrestrial ecosystem |
| Ella Kivimäki | Space and Earth Observation Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) | Seasonality and trend of column-averaged methane and its connection to cryosphere in the Arctic |
Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Series Research Announcement Secretariat, Satellite Observation Center,
National Institute for Environmental Studies
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