December 1, 2011

  The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) is held in Durban, South Africa between November 28 and December 9, 2011.
  During the Conference, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Ministry of the Environment Japan, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan are cooperatively giving a poster presentation at the exhibition booth of the Government of Japan. Presented on the poster are the monthly global distribution of column-averaged CO2 concentrations obtained from GOSAT observations (GOSAT Level 3 data product) and the preliminary estimates of monthly regional CO2 fluxes based on the GOSAT Level 2 CO2 column concentration data. A brief summary of the poster presentation, as well as a discussion on the degree to which GOSAT data contribute to reducing uncertainty associated with the regional CO2 flux estimates, is available at the exhibition booth (* the document is available at this link).
  Displayed at the NIES exhibition booth are visual explanations on GOSAT itself and sample observation results. The brochures of the NIES GOSAT Project and other leading environmental studies undertaken at NIES, all stored in a single CD-ROM, are available at the booth.