Consistent space-based retrievals of chlorophyll fluorescence and atmospheric CO2 and CH4 for improved estimates of carbon fluxes

Understanding the natural carbon cycle and its feedback to climate change requires atmospheric carbon observations to constrain carbon surface fluxes. The retrieval method RemoTeC uses satellite measurements to retrieve atmospheric CO2 and CH4. This work improves the retrieval such that it accounts for chlorophyll fluorescence. Furthermore, this work shows that the CO2 retrieval accounting for chlorophyll fluorescence provides observational constraints on carbon surface flux estimates.