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OCO-2 Publications

OCO-2 Publications between 2014 - January 31, 2026. See More >>

The following list compiles publications resulting from the OCO-2 mission, covering a wide range of topics, including spectroscopy, calibration, retrieval algorithm development, uncertainty quantification, top-down atmospheric inversion methodologies, solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, carbon-climate interactions, point source and urban emission quantification, and various scientific and real-world applications. These publications either describe or utilize data products derived from the OCO-2 mission. Those data products include Level 1B (radiance) to Level 4 produced by both the project team and the broader scientific community. If you have any questions, please contact our Science Team Lead, Junjie Liu.


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2026
Kuang, Y., Z. Li, L. Wei, D. Tang, Y. Mai, H. Yuan, L. Zheng, J. Deng, and J. Peng
Improving photosynthetic phenology detection by incorporating vegetation index with meteorological factors International Journal of Digital Earth, 19, 1
Zhang, S., Y. Yang, S. Hong, Y. Chen, Y. Ma, Y. Li, and X. Guan
Short-term and long-term impacts of climate extremes on global plant photosynthesis International Journal of Digital Earth, 19, 1
Zhang, S., Z. Zhang, P. Chen, H. Huang, and D. Pan
Satellite-Based Assessment of Spatially Heterogeneous XCO2 and Marine pCO2 Trends (2015–2020) Remote Sensing, 18, 4, 630
Si, H., H. Sun, K. Wang, R. Wang, and S. Zong
Divergent climate and human controls on Asian Vegetation sensitivity revealed by SIF-NDVI synergy Global and Planetary Change, 259, 105365
Liu, J., S. Basu, B. Byrne, J. Yun, and C. O’Dell
The Impact of OCO‐2 Seasonally Dependent Sampling on Carbon Flux Estimation in the Northern Tropical Africa J. Geophys. Res., 53, 4
Luo, Y., L. Gao, X. Fu, L. Si, X. Li, N. Du, Y. Yuan, X. Zhang, and Y. Deng
Widespread vegetation damage in Asian Interior due to the 2022 extreme drought Environmental Research, 288, 123213
Chen, S., J. Xiao, X. Li, M. Wu, and J. Yang
Disentangling the climate–VPD–GPP Nexus: Global patterns and underlying drivers Global and Planetary Change, 256, 105141
Qin, J., Z. Deng, S. Wang, J. Chen, P. Fu, and C. Huang
A review on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence of vegetation and its ecological process modeling Ecological Frontiers, 46, 1, 55-67
Geng, Y., N. Du, L. Wang, X. Deng, Y. Zuo, L. Qian, and W. Zhu
High-resolution reconstruction and driving mechanism analysis of XCO2 over mainland China based on the GAM-Optuna-ERT model Atmospheric Research, 334, 108677
Wang, L., Y. Zhao, M. Faiz, S. Baluch, M. Xu, D. Liu, and M. Li
Drivers of agricultural ecosystem resilience under compound atmospheric-soil drought in Northeast China Ecological Indicators, 182, 114525
Qiu, F., J. Zang, and Y. Zhang
Divergent remote sensing signals in long-term post-fire Eucalyptus recovery: Structural vs. functional traits Remote Sensing of Environment, 333, 115121
Ruan, F., F. Qin, J. Li, and W. Mu
A spatio-temporal machine learning method for estimating high-resolution XCO2 in China Science of Remote Sensing, 13, 100359
Liu, W., Y. Xue, X. Ling, B. He, C. Li, and L. Han
Simulation and analysis of CO2 concentration in China from 2009 to 2021 based on the WRF-Chem model Atmospheric Research, 333, 108732
Zhou, P., J. Chou, S. Ye, M. Sun, J. Luo, Z. Cao, Q. Yao, H. Zhang, M. Bilal, and L. Dan
Global Assessment of Vegetation Ozone Exposure Using a Remote Sensing-Based Index: A New Potential Reference for Critical Levels and Gross Primary Production Simulations IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 64, 1-18
Liu, W., Y. Xue, X. Ling, C. Li, B. He, and L. Han
Study on CO 2 concentration assimilation by integrating a multi-source satellite fusion dataset based on the WRF-Chem model International Journal of Remote Sensing, 47, 4, 1594-1629
Zou, C., S. Du, X. Liu, and L. Liu
Development of the long-term harmonized multi-satellite SIF (LHSIF) dataset at 0.05° resolution (1995–2024) Earth System Science Data, 18, 1, 55-75
Kashyap, R., and J. Kuttippurath
Increased moisture stress and weakened resilience to aridity limit global greening Science of The Total Environment, 1015, 181416
Yang, J., J. Tan, R. Xia, Y. Liu, A. Morse, and Q. Mu
Substantial Discrepancies Across Global Satellite XCO2 Products: A Systematic Evaluation Remote Sensing, 18, 2, 371
Ciais, P., P. Ke, Y. Yao, S. Sitch, W. Li, Y. Xu, X. Du, X. Gui, A. Bastos, S. Zaehle, B. Poulter, T. Colligan, A. van der Woude, W. Peters, Z. Liu, Z. Jin, X. Tian, Y. Wang, J. Liu, S. Pandey, C. O’Dell, J. Bian, C. Zhou, J. Miller, X. Lan, J. Goncalves De Souza, M. O’Sullivan, P. Friedlingstein, G. van der Werf, G. Peters, and F. Chevallier
Low latency global carbon budget indicates reduced land carbon sink in the year 2024 National Science Review, 13, 2
Cao, Y., Z. Xu, Y. Yang, C. Zhang, and N. Qin
From site to region: Performance evaluation of remote sensing-derived GPP products across China Advances in Space Research
Li, J., Z. Zhang, T. Li, Q. Yuan, and L. Zhang
Global daily seamless XCO2 Mapping (2016–2020): Spatio-temporal trends and variations during wildfire events International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 146, 105092
Descals, A., I. Janssens, and J. Peñuelas
Amazon forest nutrient limitation is mitigated by distant fire emissions Nature Geosci
Fan, X., Q. Zhu, Y. Wei, N. Yao, G. Zhao, Q. Yu, and G. Wu
Remote sensing proxies underestimate fire-induced gross primary productivity loss and overestimate recovery in forests Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 378, 110963
Das, C., R. Kunchala, P. K. Patra, N. Chandra, K. Ishijima, and T. Machida
An assessment of a CO2 transport model simulations using surface, aircraft and satellite data (2015–2021) Atmospheric Environment, 368, 121754
Fan, D., T. Cheng, H. Zhu, X. Ye, T. Tang, H. Tong, X. Li, J. Xiong, S. Yin, and L. Zhang
Accelerating net-zero transition: Satellite insight reveals Decarbonization potential of coal-fired power plants Applied Energy, 406, 127293
Yu, Y., W. Tian, L. Zhang, T. Yu, Y. Wu, and T. Cheng
MCF-XCO2: A cross-mission consistency and fusion framework for integrating multi-satellite XCO2 observations Atmospheric Research, 334, 108747
Xue, C., M. Zan, S. Yang, J. Zhou, L. Zhai, Z. Zhao, and J. Ke
Emulating vegetation phenology in Xinjiang using GOSIF data: Investigating cumulative and lagged responses to drought Journal of Environmental Management, 397, 128274
Jin, J., L. Dong, G. Gan, X. Fan, Y. Wang, Q. Zhu, R. Doughty, Y. Qin, and G. Yang
Daily global transpiration estimation (2001–2018) by integrating satellite solar-induced fluorescence and spatially heterogeneous slope parameter in a conductance-photosynthesis model Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 378, 110993
Anniwaer, N., X. Li, H. Xu, K. Wang, and Z. Zhu
Decadal changes in summer and autumn soil moisture drive dual shifts in Eurasian grassland vegetation growth trends during 1982–2018 Global and Planetary Change, 256, 105137
Lin, S., H. Wang, W. Bai, C. Gao, and Q. Ge
Heatwaves exacerbate the effects of early-season drought on peak vegetation growth in the Northern Hemisphere Global and Planetary Change, 256, 105139
Wang, H., Q. Xie, S. E. Thompson, C. Moore, D. Miller, E. Veneklaas, R. Silberstein, X. Li, J. Xiao, B. Medlyn, and W. K. Smith
Satellite observations reveal ecosystem resistance and resilience to short-term water stress driven by dominant vegetation along a rainfall gradient in Australia Remote Sensing of Environment, 332, 115046
Shao, W., T. Yue, and L. Zhang, W. Tian, H. Wang, H. Zhou, C. Wu, and L. Zhang
Mapping daily 1-km resolution XCO2 in China using deep learning and multi-source data Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 227, 108755
Wefers, W., D. Schmidt, L. Lehnert, M. Reuter, M. Buchwitz, C. Kammann, and K. Velten
Global 20-year time series of XCO concentrations derived from satellite observations and interpolations to analyze XCO anomalies caused by wildfires Atmospheric Research, 328, 1, 108408
2025
Åström, O., C. Geldhauser, M. Grillitsch, O. Hall, and A. Sopasakis
Enhancing carbon emission reduction strategies using OCO and ICOS data Scientific Reports, 15, 1
Wang, J., X. Wang, J. Peñuelas, H. Hua, and C. Wu
Nitrogen deposition favors later leaf senescence in woody species Nat Commun, 16, 1
Bai, X., Z. Zhang, and D. Gu
Driving mechanism of natural vegetation response to climate change in China from 2001 to 2022 Environmental Research, 276, 121529
Li, H., H. Zhang, Z. Feng, J. Zhao, H. Chen, X. Guo, T. Wang, and Y. Liu
Climate change influences on vegetation photosynthesis in the Northern Hemisphere Journal of Environmental Management, 380, 124976
Li, C., Y. Fu, Q. Zhao, X. Zhang, R. Ding, F. Hao, and G. Yin
Climatic driving mechanisms of the propagation from meteorological drought to agricultural and ecological droughts Journal of Environmental Management, 383, 125445
Liu, Y., J. Bi, X. Cai, L. Wang, G. Li, X. Wang, X. Liu, Z. Xu, X. Yu, and C. Zhan
Warm-dry climate narrowed the difference between vegetation greenness and photosynthetic phenology periods in the Yellow River Basin, China Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 40, 101735
Dong, G., F. Jiang, W. Ju, Y. Zhang, G. Werf, J. Xiao, X. Li, L. Fan, X. Li, Z. Zhang, M. Wu, J. Tian, J. Wang, Y. Zhou, Y. Xiao, K. Zhang, G. Lv, Y. Zhang, and J. Chen
Extreme fire emissions dominate the Amazonian land sink decline in 2024 The Innovation Geoscience, 3, 4, 100173
Sun, K., P. Yang, J. Xia, H. Huang, Y. Chen, C. Wang, L. Chen, P. Yao, R. Matluba, and X. Lu
Multitemporal Drought‐Vegetation Adaptation: Lag‐Cumulative Effects and Resilience Dynamics in Central Asia Ecohydrology, 18, 7
Chen, L., Z. Lin, H. Li, and X. Liu
Drought duration outweighs intensity in governing ecosystem recovery time Science of The Total Environment, 1009, 181056
Pu, J., Y. Chang, S. Gao, S. Bao, K. Yan, X. Sun, N. Carvalhais, and R. Myneni
MCI GPP: ensembling a global model- and climate-independent gross primary productivity for 2001–2023 Scientific Data, 12, 1
Pu, J., Y. Chang, A. Winkler, Z. Zuo, C. Chen, Y. Knyazikhin, and R. Myneni
Large gains in leaf scale photosynthetic rates of sparsely vegetated arid and semi-arid lands Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 1
Madsen‐Colford, S., L. R. Hutyra, I. Smith, D. Wu, M. Altaf Arain, R. Staebler, W. Ma, N. Restrepo‐Coupe, and D. Wunch
Modification and Comparison of Two Urban Vegetation Models Over Southern Ontario, Canada J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 130, 9
J. Abdlrahman, W., P. M. Najmaddin, and S. N. Majid
EVALUATION OF CO2, CH4, AND O3 GHGs FROM SATELLITES AGAINST GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS OVER SULAIMANI City, KR, IRAQ Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 56, 5, 1747-1763
Gui, H., Q. Xin, X. Zhou, Y. Sun, Y. Ruan, W. Wu, Z. Xiong, Y. Tian, and K. Xiao
Developing and evaluating satellite-derived phenology and physiology indicators for modeling annual gross primary productivity variability Forest Ecosystems, 14, 100375
Xu, J., T. Chen, X. Chen, S. Zhou, Z. Gu, W. Li, Y. Cui, S. Wang, and S. Liu
Estimating GPP in China using different site-level datasets, vegetation classification and vegetation indices Ecological Processes, 14, 1
Wu, R., Z. Cui, B. Jia, H. Sun, L. Wang, Y. Yu, and L. Jiang
Spatiotemporal patterns of gross primary productivity and the response to climate variability in the subtropical ecosystem of Eastern China Ecological Modelling, 510, 111292
Li, Z., L. Zou, A. Zhao, H. Zhang, F. Yue, Z. Luo, R. Bian, and R. Xu
Evaluation of annual trends in carbon cycle variables simulated by CMIP6 Earth system models in China Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 22, 8703-8722
Yan, W., J. Zhou, X. Wang, J. Luo, F. Yang, and R. Wu
Vegetation resistance to compound drought and heatwave events buffers the spatial shift velocities of vegetation vulnerability Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 1
Cai, J., W. Li, H. Gao, J. Lu, S. Xu, Y. Yang, H. Liu, S. Liu, and T. Qin
Research Progress of Vegetation Responseto Drought in Alpine Plateau Region Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 34, 5, 5999-6015
Wang, L., D. She, Y. Yang, L. Meng, and J. Xia
Direct and indirect effects of spring phenology on forest transpiration Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 372, 110661
Ma, Y., X. Guan, Y. Wang, Y. Li, D. Lin, and H. Shen
GPP estimation by transfer learning with combined solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and eddy covariance data International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 139, 104503
Huang, Y., M. Ju, S. Sun, R. Wang, and S. Fong
A Multifactor Deep Forest Regression Stepwise Downscaling Framework for High-Resolution XCO 2 in China IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 63, 1-14
Zhao, J., A. Paschalis, P. Gentine, Z. Feng, and S. Fatichi
Limited capability of current satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence reconstructions to capture stomatal responses to environmental stresses Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 1
Yan, L., Z. Feng, C. Chen, J. Chen, and H. Xie
Differences in spring green up date and climate sensitivities of forest and grassland ecosystems across China Geo-spatial Information Science, 1-20
Chen, H., J. Liu, W. He, P. Xu, N. Nguyen, Y. Lv, and C. Huang
Shifted vegetation resilience from loss to gain driven by changes in water availability and solar radiation over the last two decades in Southwest China Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 368, 110543
Zhang, G., H. Wang, S. Zhang, T. Gan, J. Zhao, X. Su, and X. Fu
Spring phenology and productivity alter vegetation vulnerability under summer droughts over Northern Hemisphere Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 368, 110555
Tang, J., B. Niu, Z. Hu, G. Fu, and X. Zhang
Increasing susceptibility of vegetation productivity to compound drought from 2001 to 2020 Global and Planetary Change, 251, 104826
Gao, S., S. Huang, H. Guo, H. Yan, L. Zhang, Y. Li, W. Guo, X. Zhu, H. Ling, L. Ma, W. Tao, G. Leng, and Q. Huang
Land quality degradation exacerbates the impact of drought on vegetation in Northeast China Ecological Indicators, 181, 114447
Doughty, R., M. Wimberly, D. Wanyama, H. Peiro, N. Parazoo, S. Crowell, and M. Cho
Seasonality and synchrony of photosynthesis in African forests inferred from spaceborne chlorophyll fluorescence and vegetation indices Biogeosciences, 22, 8, 1985-2004
Keely, W., S. Mauceri, R. Nelson, J. Laughner, C. O’Dell, S. T. Massie, D. Baker, M. Kiel, O. Lamminpää, J. Hobbs, A. Chatterjee, T. Taylor, P. Wennberg, S. Crowell, B. B. Stephens, and V. H. Payne
Uncertainty‐Aware Machine Learning Bias Correction and Filtering for OCO‐2. 2 Earth and Space Science, 12, 11
Yu, H., Q. Yao, L. Qiu, Z. Mo, and T. Tan
Earlier end of photosynthesis driven by advanced photosynthetic onset and elevated early-season temperatures Environmental Research Letters, 20, 12, 124021
You, C., S. Chen, Z. Tu, C. Bian, E. Cui, K. Huang, F. Wan, J. Ping, N. Wei, and J. Xia
Decadal trends in global grassland growth peaks and their drivers since the 1980s Nat Commun, 16, 1
Wang, Y., X. She, C. Zhu, J. Chen, D. Kong, W. Shi, X. Guan, Q. Xie, X. Gao, W. Li, and Y. Li
Unveiling the accuracy of global GPP products in data-scarce mountain ecosystems of Southwest China International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 144, 104908
Meng, F., S. Hedberg, N. Cong, A. Post, K. Wilcox, W. Mao, A. Knapp, M. A. Smith, T. Dorji, and A. Chen
Divergent Shifts in the Climatic Controls of Phenology Across Great Plains Grasslands J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 130, 10
Liu, Y., H. Wan, P. Guo, W. Liu, Z. Han, and Y. Jiao
Quantifying winter wheat phenology patterns in the North China Plain using Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Agricultural Water Management, 320, 109885
Zhang, X., J. Liu, C. Yang, X. Gu, A. Gulakhmadov, J. Zeng, H. Ma, Z. Chen, L. Zhao, L. Du, P. Kumar, M. Kganyago, V. Costa, W. Nam, P. Sun, Y. J. Shen, D. Niyogi, and N. Chen
Disentangling vegetation physiological responses under extreme drought in the Amazon Rainforest: A multispectral remote sensing approach with insights from ET, SIF, and VOD ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 230, 599-615
Huang, Y., H. Zhang, X. Ma, T. Shi, G. Han, Z. Pei, H. Mao, and W. Gong
Advanced satellite-based model for precise measurement of point source CO 2 emission Geo-spatial Information Science, 1-16
Li, Y., Y. Lv, H. Yao, C. Li, S. Xv, and X. Li, and X. Li
Spatiotemporal evaluation of atmospheric CO2 fluctuations in Shaanxi Province (2013–2022) utilizing multi-source satellite remote sensing data Carbon Balance and Management, 20, 1
Li, Y., X. Lian, J. Cui, S. Hong, and X. Wang
Vegetation Productivity Responses to Compound and Individual Climatic Stressors in Drylands JGR Biogeosciences, 130, 8
Li, X., H. Guo, G. Cheng, X. Song, Y. Ran, M. Feng, T. Che, Li, X., L. Wang, A. Duan, D. Shangguan, D. Chen, R. Jin, J. Deng, J. Su, and B. Cao
Polar regions are critical in achieving global sustainable development goals Remote Sensing of Environment, 16, 1, 114748
Pan, M., X. Lin, Z. Xiao, F. Wang, L. Guo, C. Wang, J. Xie, and J. Fang
Improving terrestrial solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) reconstruction through multi-satellite-derived SIF integration: a comparative study in regional scale International Journal of Remote Sensing, 46, 19, 7147-7172
Zhang, Q., J. Dong, Z. Xu, W. Nam, J. Yang, Y. Zhang, Y. Qin, S. Gao, S. Huang, H. Tian, Q. Yu, and Q. Ge
Energy shortages undermine agricultural drought resistance in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Nature Food, 6, 10, 936-941
Chen, R., M. Zou, C. Chen, H. Xie, C. Zhou, H. Mao, and Z. Wang
A Multigranularity Spatiotemporal Attention Model Based on Multisource Satellite Data for Monthly XCO 2 Reconstruction Over China IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 63, 1-15
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