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The NIES GOSAT Project Newsletter interviewed IBUKI's PIs (Principal Investigators) around the world who are working on research topics with the GOSAT Project and asked how they came to be involved with the research and what they think of IBUKI's data.(Please note that the pdf file may not open at the specified page depending on the browser you are using.)
2014
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No.11

Satellite remote sensing of GHG is a very challenging subject and it's also the chance to learn more about climate change. That's why I'm interested.

Dr. Andre Butz
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany

2013
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No.10

The GOSAT people are very open to give the spectra to other people. This is not normal, but it is very good, because this helped the whole community of scientists.

Prof. Justus Notholt
The University of Bremen,
Professor for Physics
Germany

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No.9

GOSAT is a very successful mission and the first to really measure GHGs. It's also the first to demonstrate the usefulness of O2A-band.

Dr. Claude Camy-Peyret
CNRS Emeritus Scientist,
Co-chairman of IASI Sounding Science Working Group
France

2012
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No.8

I would like first to say that the spirit of generosity shown by the GOSAT three parties is a wonderful model for how we should attack problems which are important to all people on Earth.

Professor Paul Wennberg
California Institute of Technology
USA

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No.7

The GOSAT data sets have reached maturity and can now be used to provide insights into the lobal carbon cycle. This is very exciting.

Dr. Vanessa Sherlock
Scientist
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA),
New Zealand.

2011
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No.6

My speciality is to try to connect different disciplines together.

Professor Paul Palmer
School of GeoSciences,
University of Edinburgh, UK

2010
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No.5

We are looking forward to get the satellite data in our system.

Dr. Richard Engelen
Researcher
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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No.4

By analyzing the GOSAT data, we can also learn how to improve the SCIAMACHY data products.

Dr. Michael Buchwitz
Researcher
Institute of Environmental Physics of
the University of Bremen, Germany

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No.3

It is often quite important to know a litte bit of both worlds, retrieval and scientific interpretation.

Dr. Christian Frankenberg
Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology, USA

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No.2

I would like to contribute to the enhancement of the terrestrial biosphere models and understanding of how much IBUKI data affect in climate change prediction.

Associate Professor Kazuhito Ichii
Faculty of Symbolic Systems Science
Fukushima University, Japan

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No.1

I wish that my studying results should contribute to the government's policy-making towards energy saving and CO2 reduction.

Dr. Lei Liping
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth Sciences