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OCO-2 Publications

OCO-2 Publications between 2014 - August 13, 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
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
Mauceri, S., W. Keely, J. Laughner, C. O’Dell, S. T. Massie, R. Nelson, 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: 1 Earth and Space Science, 12, 7
Keely, W., O. Lamminpää, S. Mauceri, S. M. Crowell, and C. W. O'Dell
Conditional Diffusion-Based Retrieval of Atmospheric CO2 from Earth Observing Spectroscopy ICLR 2025 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 12
Cui, K., J. Ding, J. Wang, J. Tan, and J. Li
Stacking-Based Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Downscaling for Soil EC Estimation Remote Sensing, 17, 18, 3222
Lian, Y., Y. He, and L. Wang, Y. Wu, Y. Wang, Z. Xu, X. Xu, and L. Wang
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Forest Carbon Sinks in China’s Qinba Mountains: Insights from Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Remote Sensing Remote Sensing, 17, 8, 1418
Verma, A., B. Lanssens, M. Tölle, I. Jacquemin, T. Chaudhari, A. Hambuckers, and L. François
Integrating high-resolution data and species-level traits for enhanced ecosystem projections using a dynamic vegetation model: Case study in Wallonia, Belgium Journal of Environmental Management, 375, 124329
Vangi, E., D. Dalmonech, G. d'Amico, E. Grieco, M. Morichetti, P. Puchi, S. Francini, S. Fares, F. Giannetti, P. Corona, R. Barbetti, G. Chirici, and A. Collalti
Monitoring forest attributes, C-fluxes, and C-stocks using the process-based model 3D-CMCC-FEM at the National level Ecological Informatics, 92, 103489
Zhao, M., Y. Yang, G. Weng, W. He, H. Yang, N. Nguyen, J. Wang, S. Liu, J. Chen, X. Lei, T. Ma, Z. Huang, and P. Xu
Fusing Enhanced Flux Measurements and Multi-Source Satellite Observations to Improve GPP Estimation for the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau Based on AutoML Techniques Remote Sensing, 18, 1, 130
Li, Y., L. Bao, P. He, C. Wang, S. Zhu, J. Ma, Y. Liang, and J. Xiao
Global soil moisture dynamics: attribution of contributions and their association with GPP Frontiers in Plant Science, 16
Chen, C., L. Zhou, D. Li, Q. Liu, T. Zhang, J. Wen, and Y. He
Environmental and genetic factors affecting Chinese motherwort yield: A machine learning and molecular profiling study Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 231, 109981
Zhu, H., X. Li, H. Du, L. Chen, F. Mao, J. Xuan, Y. Zhao, Z. Huang, K. Mo, and Y. Zheng
Enhancing phenological model accuracy in subtropical forests using data assimilation coupled with deep learning GIScience & Remote Sensing, 62, 1
V. Kobzar, G., G. M. Nerobelov, and Y. Timofeev
Analysis of CO2 Content and Emission Based on OCO-2 Satellite Measurements Cosmic Research, 63, S1, S91-S97
Nayagam, L., S. Maksyutov, R. Janardanan, T. Oda, Y. K. Tiwari, G. Sreenivas, A. Datye, C. Jain, M. Ratnam, V. Sinha, H. Hakkim, Y. Terao, M. Naja, M. Ahmed, H. Mukai, J. Zeng, J. W. Kaiser, Y. Someya, Y. Yoshida, and T. Matsunaga
Indian Land Carbon Sink Estimated from Surface and GOSAT Observations Remote Sensing, 17, 3, 450
Lu, W., X. Li, S. Li, T. Cheng, Y. Guo, and W. Fang
Impact of anthropogenic emission inventories on atmospheric CO2 concentrations simulated by GEOS-Chem Atmospheric Research, 326, 108255
Hu, L., X. Hu, F. Jiang, W. He, Z. Deng, S. Fang, and X. Fang
Analysis of Regional Surface CO2 Fluxes Using the MEGA Satellite Data Assimilation System Remote Sensing, 17, 22, 3720
da Costa, L., G. de Mendonça, G. Araújo Santos, F. Pacheco, G. d. Rolim, A. Panosso, and N. La Scala Jr.
Drivers of atmospheric CO2 concentration in southeast Brazil: Insights from land use change, vegetation, and climate factors Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 38, 101614
Li, Z., N. Zhao, H. Zhang, Y. Wei, Y. Chen, and R. Ma
Research on High Spatiotemporal Resolution of XCO2 in Sichuan Province Based on Stacking Ensemble Learning Sustainability, 17, 8, 3433
Sun, Y., and X. Fang
Calibration for Computer Models with Time-Varying Parameter Mathematics, 13, 18, 2969
Lu, W., X. Li, S. Li, T. Cheng, Y. Guo, and W. Fang
Effects of Emission Variability on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations in Mainland China Remote Sensing, 17, 5, 814
Zhu, W., H. Zhang, X. Zhang, H. Guo, and Y. Liu
Evaluating the spatiotemporal variations in atmospheric CO2 concentrations in China and identifying factors contributing to its increase Atmospheric Pollution Research, 16, 5, 102458
Rakotoharisoa, A., S. Cenci, and R. Arcucci
A High Resolution Spatially Consistent Global Dataset for CO2 Monitoring Remote Sensing, 17, 9, 1617
He, X., S. Chen, J. Xi, and Y. Wang
Quantitative Assessment of Satellite-Observed Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations over Oceanic Regions Remote Sensing, 17, 24, 4026
Pais, S., S. Bhattacharjee, A. Madasamy, V. Balamurugan, and J. Chen
High-Spatial-Resolution Estimation of XCO2 Using a Stacked Ensemble Model Remote Sensing, 17, 20, 3415
Sheng, M., Y. Hou, H. Song, X. Ye, L. Lei, P. Ma, and Z. Zeng
Estimating anthropogenic CO2 emissions from China's Yangtze River Delta using OCO-2 observations and WRF-Chem simulations Remote Sensing of Environment, 316, 114515
Li, Y., K. Wu, Y. Yung, X. Wang, and J. Han
Analysis of the Current Situation of CO2 Satellite Observation Remote Sensing, 17, 21, 3635
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

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