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OCO-2 Publications

OCO-2 Publications between 2014 - June 30, 2025. 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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2024
Semerjian, H.G., T. M. Wong, and J. R. Whetstone
NIST Greenhouse Gas Measurements Program: A Decade of Critical Accomplishments National Institute of Standards and Technology
Liu, H., C. Hu, Q. Xiao, J. Zhang, F. Sun, X. Shi, X. Chen, Y. Yang, and W. Xiao
Analysis of anthropogenic CO2 emission uncertainty and influencing factors at city scale in Yangtze River Delta region: One of the world's largest emission hotspots Atmospheric Pollution Research, 15, 11, 102281
Lei, R., J. Poe, D. N. Huntzinger, J. Liu, S. Stich, D. Baker, L. Feng, D. Gaeta, Z. Huang, and S. M. Miller
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and in situ CO2 data suggest a larger seasonal amplitude of the terrestrial carbon cycle compared to many dynamic global vegetation models Remote Sensing of Environment, 312, 114326
Zhang, T., B. Shan, M. Xu, G. Zhao, Z. Zheng, Y. Tang, N. Chen, J. Zhu, N. Cong, B. Niu, and Y. Zhang
Soil moisture alters the responses of alpine ecosystem productivity to environmental factors, especially VPD, on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Science of The Total Environment, 947, 174518
Feng, G., Z. Xu, N. Khongdee, L. Mansaray, Q. Song, and Y. Chen
Differences in drought characteristics, progression, and recession across ecosystem types in the pantropical region of the Lancang-Mekong River Basin Science of The Total Environment, 947, 174514
Liu, Y., X. Liu, Z. Fu, D. Zhang, and L. Liu
Soil temperature dominates forest spring phenology in China Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 355, 110141
Xie, F., T. Ren, C. Zhao, Y. Wen, Y. Gu, M. Zhou, P. Wang, K. Shiomi, and I. Morino
Fast retrieval of XCO2 over east Asia based on Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spectral measurements Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 13, 3949-3967
Cui, L., H. Yang, Y. Qiao, X. Huang, G. Feng, Q. Lv, and H. Fan
Estimating high spatio-temporal resolution XCO2 using spatial features deep fusion model Atmospheric Research, 308, 107542
Li, J., L. Liu, J. Zheng, X. Yu, R. Tian, W. Han, and J. Guan
Increasing influence of minimum temperature on grassland spring phenology in arid Central Asia Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 355, 110122
Xu, Y., Y. Chen, J. Li, X. Liu, W. Miao, D. Zhao, and C. Rui
Remote sensing monitoring and spatiotemporal characteristics of CO2 and CH4 concentrations in coal-electricity production bases Coal Geology & Exploration, 52, 6, 1-12
Murakami, K., M. Saito, H. M. Noda, H. Oshio, Y. Yoshida, K. Ichii, and T. Matsunaga
Impact of the 2015 El Niño event on Borneo: Detection of drought damage using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 80, 3, 69-78
Lu, M., H. Sun, L. Cheng, S. Li, H. Qin, S. Yi, H. Zhang, and W. Zhang
Heterogeneity in vegetation recovery rates post-flash droughts across different ecosystems Environ. Res. Lett., 19, 7, 074028
Meng, F., A. Felton, J. Mao, N. Cong, W. K. Smith, C. Körner, Z. Hu, S. Hong, J. Knott, Y. Yan, B. Guo, Y. Deng, S. Leisz, T. Dorji, S. Wang, and A. Chen
Consistent time allocation fraction to vegetation green-up versus senescence across northern ecosystems despite recent climate change Science Advances, 10, 23
Zhang, L., T. Cheng, T. Yue, S. Li, and J. P. Wilson
Quantitative analysis of spatiotemporal coverage and uncertainty decomposition in OCO-2/3 XCO2 across China Atmospheric Environment, 333, 120636
Lee, J., S. Jeong, H. Park, J. Hong, J. Kim, M. Frey, I. Morino, H. Ohyama, F. Hase, M. Mermigkas, M. Zhou, Y. Té, and C. Roehl
Emission Characteristics of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants in Northern Hemisphere Cities: Comprehensive Assessment Using Ground‐Based Fourier Transform Spectrometers JGR: Atmospheres, 129, 12
He, X., S. Liu, S. Bateni, T. Xu, C. Jun, D. Kim, X. Li, L. Song, L. Zhao, Z. Xu, and J. Wei
Innovative approach for estimating evapotranspiration and gross primary productivity by integrating land data assimilation, machine learning, and multi-source observations Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 355, 110136
Guo, H., Y. Tian, J. Li, X. Meng, X. Lv, W. Wang, A. Bao, L. Zhu, V. Nzabarinda, and P. De Maeyer
Unveiling the spatiotemporal impacts of the 2021 Central Asian drought on vegetation: A comprehensive quantitative analysis Ecological Indicators, 165, 112238
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Accounting of far-field CO2 contribution to XCO2 calculation using a high spatial resolution regional model simulation Journal of The Remote Sensing Society of Japan
Wang, T., Y. Zhang, C. Yue, Y. Wang, X. Wang, G. Lyu, J. Wei, H. Yang, and S. Piao
Progress and challenges in remotely sensed terrestrial carbon fluxes Geo-spatial Information Science, 1-21
Sopniewski, J., R. Catullo, M. Ward, N. Mitchell, and B. Scheele
Niche‐based approach to explore the impacts of environmental disturbances on biodiversity Conservation Biology
Xu, Y., H. Du, F. Mao, X. Li, G. Zhou, Z. Huang, K. Guo, M. Zhang, X. Luo, C. Chen, and Y. Zhao
Effects of chlorophyll fluorescence on environment and gross primary productivity of moso bamboo during the leaf-expansion stage Journal of Environmental Management, 360, 121185
Zhao, Q., X. Zhang, C. Li, Y. Xu, and J. Fei
Compound ecological drought assessment of China using a Copula-based drought index Ecological Indicators, 164, 112141
Zhang, G., S. Zhang, H. Wang, T. Gan, H. Fang, X. Su, S. Song, K. Feng, T. Jiang, J. Huang, P. Xu, and X. Fu
Biodiversity and Wetting of Climate Alleviate Vegetation Vulnerability Under Compound Drought‐Hot Extremes Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, 10
Liu, X., Y. Feng, T. Hu, Y. Luo, X. Zhao, J. Wu, E. Maeda, W. Ju, L. Liu, Q. Guo, and Y. Su
Enhancing ecosystem productivity and stability with increasing canopy structural complexity in global forests Science Advances, 10, 20
He, Z., G. Fan, X. Li, F. Gong, M. Liang, L. Gao, and M. Zhou
Spatio-temporal modeling of satellite-observed CO2 columns in China using deep learning International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 129, 103859
Huang, Z., L. Zhou, D. Zhong, P. Liu, and Y. Chi
Declined benefit of earlier spring greening on summer growth in northern ecosystems under future scenarios Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 351, 110019
Li, X., S. Jiang, X. Wang, T. Wang, S. Zhang, J. Guo, and D. Jiao
XCO2 Super-Resolution Reconstruction Based on Spatial Extreme Random Trees Atmosphere, 15, 4, 440
Pais, S., S. Bhattacharjee, A. Madasamy, and J. Chen
Downscaled XCO₂ Estimation Using Data Fusion and AI-Based Spatio-Temporal Models IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett., 21, 1-5
Du, Y., K. Zhu, and Z. Zhang
CSIF and GOSIF Do Not Accurately Capture the Vegetation Greening During the Spring of 2020 IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett., 21, 1-5
Dayalu, A., M. E. Mountain, B. Rastogi, J. Miller, and L. V. Gatti
Constraining 2010–2020 Amazonian carbon flux estimates with satellite solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) Biogeosciences, 22, 1509-1528
Liao, Y., X. Deng, M. Huang, M. Liu, J. Yi, and L. Hoffmann
Tracking Carbon Dioxide with Lagrangian Transport Simulations: Case Study of Canadian Forest Fires in May 2021 Atmosphere, 15, 4, 429
Wu, H., P. Zhou, X. Song, W. Sun, Y. Li, S. Song, and Y. Zhang
Dynamics of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and its response to meteorological drought in the Yellow River Basin Journal of Environmental Management, 360, 121023
Liu, J., D. Baker, S. Basu, K. Bowman, B. Byrne, F. Chevallier, W. He, F. Jiang, M. C. Johnson, T. Kubar, X. Li, Z. Liu, S. M. Miller, S. Philip, J. Xiao, J. Yun, and N. Zeng
The reduced net carbon uptake over Northern Hemisphere land causes the close-to-normal CO 2 growth rate in 2021 La Niña Science Advances, 10, 23
Tang, J., B. Niu, Z. Hu, and X. Zhang
Increasing susceptibility and shortening response time of vegetation productivity to drought from 2001 to 2021 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 352, 110025
Li, C., J. Jia, F. Wu, L. Zuo, and X. Cui
County-level intensity of carbon emissions from crop farming in China during 2000–2019 Scientific Data, 11, 1
Liu, S., X. Pan, X. Xiong, T. Sun, L. Xue, H. Zhang, J. Fang, J. Fang, G. Zhang, H. Xu, and B. Chen
Integration of surface-based and space-based atmospheric CO2 measurements for improving carbon flux estimates using a new developed 3-GAS inversion model Atmospheric Research, 307, 107477
Buri, P., S. Fatichi, T. Shaw, C. Fyffe, E. Miles, M. McCarthy, M. Kneib, S. Ren, A. Jouberton, S. Fugger, L. Jia, J. Zhang, C. Shen, C. Zheng, M. Menenti, and F. Pellicciotti
Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia Geo-spatial Information Science, 1-25
He, C., X. Lu, Y. Zhang, Z. Liu, F. Jiang, Y. Sun, M. Gao, Y. Liu, H. Lin, J. Yang, X. Lin, Y. Wang, C. Hu, and S. Fan
Revisiting the quantification of power plant CO2 emissions in the United States and China from satellite: A comparative study using three top-down approaches Remote Sensing of Environment, 308, 114192
Varghese, R., S. Behera, and M. Behera
Tropical ocean teleconnections with gross primary productivity of monsoon-Asia Science of The Total Environment, 938, 173337
Huang, C., J. Huang, J. Xiao, X. Li, H. He, Y. Liang, F. Chen, and H. Tian
Global convergence in terrestrial gross primary production response to atmospheric vapor pressure deficit Science China Life Sciences
Li, H., K. Liu, B. Yang, S. Wang, Y. Meng, D. Wang, X. Liu, L. Li, D. Li, Y. Bo, and X. Li
Continuous monitoring of grassland AGB during the growing season through integrated remote sensing: a hybrid inversion framework International Journal of Digital Earth, 17, 1
Dai, L., Y. Yang, X. Wang, G. Yang, M. Liang, and Z. Hu
Positive asymmetric responses indicate larger carbon sink with increase in precipitation variability in global terrestrial ecosystems The Innovation Geoscience, 2, 1, 100060
Zhang, Z., J. Liu, K. Feng, F. Wang, H. Guo, W. Zhang, and S. Wang
Temporal and spatial characteristics of ecological drought in the Inland River Basin and its driving factors Nature
Wang, T., S. Sun, Y. Yin, J. Zhao, Y. Tang, Y. Wang, F. Gao, and X. Luan
Status of crop water use efficiency evaluation methods: A review Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 349, 109961
Mottungan, K., V. Brocchi, C. Roychoudhury, B. Gaubert, W. Tang, M. Mirrezaei, J. McKinnon, Y. Guo, and A. F. Arellano
Local and Regional Enhancements of CH4, CO, and CO2 Inferred from TCCON Column Measurements Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 19, 5861-5885
Zheng, Z., N. Cong, G. Zhao, B. Zhao, Y. Zhu, Y. Zhang, J. Zhu, T. Zhang, N. Chen, J. Gao, Y. Zhang, and Y. Sun
Evident influence of water availability on the relationship between solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary productivity in the alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 129, 103821
Li, J., X. Zhang, L. Guo, J. Zhong, D. Wang, C. Wu, F. Li, and M. Li
Invert global and China's terrestrial carbon fluxes over 2019–2021 based on assimilating richer atmospheric CO2 observations Science of The Total Environment, 929, 172320
Shi, X., Y. Yang, Z. Yuan, H. Ding, Y. Zhang, J. Chen, and M. Shi
Integrating SWAP and SIF anomaly to assess the responses of vegetation to the drought-flood abrupt alternation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin, China Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 52, 101726
Liu, Y., X. Wang, F. Shan, H. Yue, and J. Shi
The bidirectional dependency between global water resources and vegetation productivity Journal of Hydrology, 635, 131160
Mousavi, S., N. Mobarghaee Dinan, S. Ansarifard, G. Darvishi, F. Borhani, and A. Naghibi
Assessing the impact of global carbon dioxide changes on atmospheric fluctuations in Iran through satellite data analysis Journal of Water & Climate Change
Liu, Y., J. Xiao, X. Li, and Y. Li
Critical soil moisture detection and water-energy limit shift attribution using satellite-based water and carbon fluxes over China Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, 5, 1241–1258
Huang, Y., R. Wang, M. Ju, X. Zhu, and Y. Xie
Reconstructing global daily XCO2 at 1° × 1° spatial resolution from 2016 to 2019 with multisource satellite observation data Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 18, 02
Chen, H., W. He, J. Liu, N. Nguyen, F. Chevallier, H. Yang, Y. Lv, C. Huang, C. Rodenbeck, S. M. Miller, F. Jiang, J. Liu, M. C. Johnson, S. Philip, Z. Liu, N. Zeng, S. Basu, and D. Baker
Satellite-detected large CO2 release in southwestern North America during the 2020–2021 drought and associated wildfires Environ. Res. Lett., 19, 054047
Huang, X., Z. Deng, F. Jiang, M. Zhou, X. Lin, Z. Liu, and M. Peng
Improved Consistency of Satellite XCO2 Retrievals Based on Machine Learning Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, 8
Xu, M., J. Chen, Y. Liu, R. Wang, R. Shang, J. Leng, L. Shu, J. Liu, R. Liu, Y. Liu, R. Yang, and Y. Yan
Comparative assessment of leaf photosynthetic capacity datasets for estimating terrestrial gross primary productivity Science of The Total Environment, 926, 171400
Kira, O., J. Wen, J. Han, A. McDonald, C. Barrett, A. Ortiz-Bobea, Y. Liu, L. You, N. Mueller, and Y. Sun
A scalable crop yield estimation framework based on remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) Environ. Res. Lett., 19, 4, 044071
Frankenberg, C., Y. Bar-On, Y. Yin, P. Wenberg, D. Jacob, and A. M. Michalak
Data Drought in the Humid Tropics: How to Overcome the Cloud Barrier in Greenhouse Gas Remote Sensing Geophys Res Lett, 51, 8, e2024GL108791
Romaniello, V., C. Spinetti, and A. Piscini
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Concentrations over Italy by means of OCO‑2 Satellite Data Series Annals of Geophysics, 66, 5, PA533
Li, T., S. Wang, B. Chen, Y. Wang, S. Chen, J. Chen, Y. Xiao, Y. Xia, Z. Zhao, X. Chen, Y. Jiang, and P. Gu
Widespread reduction in gross primary productivity caused by the compound heat and drought in Yangtze River Basin in 2022 Environ. Res. Lett., 19, 3, 034048
Ji, M., Y. Xu, Y. Zhang, Y. Mo, S. Zhu, W. Wang, M. Zhou, I. Morino, H. Ohyama, K. Shiomi, and Y. Oh
Validation of Remotely Sensed XCO2 Products With TCCON Observations in East Asia IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing, 17, 7159-7169
Zhang, Q., X. Liu, K. Zhou, Y. Zhou, P. Gentine, M. Pan, and G. Katul
Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence sheds light on global evapotranspiration Remote Sensing of Environment, 305, 114061
Wang, B., B. Smith, C. Waters, P. Feng, and D. Liu
Modelling changes in vegetation productivity and carbon balance under future climate scenarios in southeastern Australia Science of The Total Environment, 924, 171748
Scarpelli, T., P. Palmer, M. Lunt, I. Super, and A. Droste
Verifying national inventory-based combustion emissions of CO2 across the UK and mainland Europe using satellite observations of atmospheric CO and CO2 Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 18, 10773-10791
Jin, C., Y. Xue, T. Yuan, L. Zhao, X. Jiang, Y. Sun, S. Wu, and X. Wang
Retrieval anthropogenic CO2 emissions from OCO-2 and comparison with gridded emission inventories Journal of Cleaner Production, 448, 141418
Gharun, M., A. Shekhar, J. Xiao, X. Li, and N. Buchmann
Effect of the 2022 summer drought across forest types in Europe Biogeosciences, 21, 5481-5494
Liu, Z., N. Zeng, P. Han, Q. Cai, B. Yao, P. Wang, W. Quan, W. Tang, Z. Liang, Y. Liu, and M. Cory
Detection of Chinese Spring Festival in Beijing using in-situ CO2 observations and atmospheric inversion Atmospheric Environment, 325, 120446
Ding, L., Z. Li, X. Wang, B. Shen, L. Xiao, G. Dong, L. Yu, B. Nandintsetseg, Z. Shi, J. Chang, and C. Shao
Spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of gross primary productivity over the Mongolian Plateau steppe in the past 20 years Science of The Total Environment, 920, 170886
Hu, Y., F. Wei, S. Wang, W. Zhang, R. Fensholt, X. Xiao, and B. Fu
Critical thresholds for nonlinear responses of ecosystem water use efficiency to drought Science of The Total Environment, 918, 170713
Yuan, K., F. Li, G. McNicol, M. Chen, A. Hoyt, S. Knox, W. Riley, R. Jackson, and Q. Zhu
Boreal–Arctic wetland methane emissions modulated by warming and vegetation activity Nat. Clim. Chang.
Wu, Y., Y. Xie, and R. Wang
Exploring Urban XCO2 Patterns Using PRISMA Satellite: A Case Study in Shanghai Atmosphere, 15, 3, 246
Pathakoti, M., M. D.V., K. A.L., R. K.S., A. Taori, R. Bothale, and P. Chauhan
Temporal variability of atmospheric columnar CO2, CH4, CO and N2O concentrations using ground-based remote sensing FTIR Spectrometer Advances in Space Research, 73, 10, 4967-4975
Wang, C., Y. Yang, G. Yin, Q. Xie, B. Xu, A. Verger, A. Descals, I. Filella, and J. Peñuelas
Divergence in Autumn Phenology Extracted From Different Satellite Proxies Reveals the Timetable of Leaf Senescence Over Deciduous Forests Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, 4
Kang, J., B. Zhang, and A. Dang
A novel geospatial machine learning approach to quantify non-linear effects of land use/land cover change (LULCC) on carbon dynamics International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 128, 103712
Hong, X., C. Zhang, Y. Tian, Y. Zhu, Y. Hao, and C. Liu
First TanSat CO2 retrieval over land and ocean using both nadir and glint spectroscopy Remote Sensing of Environment, 304, 114053
Li, Y., S. Yan, J. Gong, J. Xiao, M. Asgarimehr, and J. Wickert
Soil moisture retrieval by a novel hybrid model based on CYGNSS and Sun-induced fluorescence data Journal of Hydrology, 632, 130845
Li, J., C. Wu, Y. Zhang, J. Peñuelas, L. Liu, and Q. Ge
Weakening warming on spring freeze–thaw cycle caused greening Earth’s third pole Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, 8
Guan, Y., G. McKinley, A. Fay, S. Doney, and G. Keppel-Aleks
Ocean-driven Interannual Variability in Atmospheric CO2 Quantified Using OCO-2 Observations and Atmospheric Transport Simulations Frontiers in Marine Science
Balamurugan, V., and J. Chen
Fossil fuel CO2 emission signatures over India captured by OCO-2 satellite measurements Earth's Future, 12, 11, e2023EF004411
Dalmonech, D., E. Vangi, M. Chiesi, G. Chirici, L. Fibbi, F. Giannetti, G. Marano, C. Massari, A. Nolè, J. Xiao, and A. Collalti
Regional estimates of gross primary production applying the Process-Based Model 3D-CMCC-FEM vs. Remote-Sensing multiple datasets European Journal of Remote Sensing, 57, 1
Qiu, R., G. Han, X. Li, J. Xiao, J. Liu, S. Wang, S. Li, and W. Gong
Contrasting responses of relationship between solar-induced fluorescence and gross primary production to drought across aridity gradients Remote Sensing of Environment, 302, 113984
Kumar, V., H. Chu, and A. Anand
Impacts of Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Indian Ocean on Drought Conditions over India during ENSO and IOD Events Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 12, 1, 136
Du, K., J. Huang, W. Wang, Y. Zeng, X. Li, and F. Zhao
Monitoring Low-Temperature Stress in Winter Wheat Using TROPOMI Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 62, 1-11
Zhou, Y., X. Wei, Y. Wang, W. He, Z. Dong, X. Zhang, Y. Liu, N. Nguyen, and W. Ju
Solar radiation variation weakened the boost of gross primary production by vegetation restoration in China’s most forestry engineering areas during 2001–2020 Environ. Res. Lett., 19, 1, 014082

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