Research Article

Operational Monitoring of Trace Gases over the Mediterranean Sea

Table 2

Time averaged values of the ground measurements (GM) and retrieved (IASI) columnar tropospheric content of trace gases.

Begur Lampedusa Finokalia Sde Boker Cairo
GM IASI GM IASI GM IASI GM IASI GM IASI

CO2 (ppmv) 385.7 382.5 385.7 386.8 383.5 386.4 386.8 392.1
CH4 (ppbv) 1834 1920 1860 1924 1865 1930 1890 1936