Prof Hartmut Boesch
Professor in Earth Observation 
PhD (University of Heidelberg)
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2273
Email: hartmut.boesch@le.ac.uk
Office: Michael Atiyah Building, Room 110
Webpage of the Greenhouse Gas Remote Sensing Group
Personal details
I am a Professor in Earth Observation Science (EOS) group at the University of Leicester, which is an interdisciplinary team based in the Space Research Centre of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. I worked for several years at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the development of the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission. I also joined the EOS Group at University of Leicester as a RCUK research fellow in 2007 focusing on the analysis of greenhouse gas observations from the GOSAT mission and on the preparation of future greenhouse gas missions. Elsewhere, I am a Science Team member of the NASA ACOS (formerly OCO) project and the NASA OCO-2 mission, a GOSAT RA researcher, a member of the ESA Advisory Group for the ESA Earth Explorer 8 Candidate mission Carbonsat, a co-proposer of the Tropical Carbon Mission, co-I and project manager for the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) GHG theme phase 1, and investigator for the EU FP7 MACC-II and InGOS projects.
Administrative duties
- Head of Earth Observation Science (EOS) Group
- Department Research and Strategy committee
Professional activities
- Divisional Director, National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO)
- Science team member of the NASA OCO-2 project
- Member of Mission Advisory Group (MAG) for ESA Earth Explorer 8 Candidate Mission Carbonsat
- Co-chair for IWGGMS-7 and session organizer for EGU General Assembly
- Member of scientific committee for IWGGMS-9, IWGGMS-10 and ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013
- Member of the NERC Peer Review College
Teaching
Modules that I delivered in past academic years include:
- Dynamics (PA1110)
- Planetary Remote Sensing (PA2610/20 – opt 2604)
- Spacecraft Imaging Systems (PA2930 – opt 2904)
- Earth System Science (CH4203)
Publications
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Influence of differences in current GOSAT XCO2 retrievals on surface flux estimation. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 41(7):2598-2605 16 Apr 2014
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Toward robust and consistent regional CO2 flux estimates from in situ and spaceborne measurements of atmospheric CO2. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 41(3):1065-1070 16 Feb 2014
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Carbon Monitoring Satellite (CarbonSat): Assessment of atmospheric CO2 and CH4 retrieval errors by error parameterization. ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES 6(12):3477-3500 01 Jan 2013
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Effects of atmospheric light scattering on spectroscopic observations of greenhouse gases from space. Part 2: Algorithm intercomparison in the GOSAT data processing for CO2 retrievals over TCCON sites.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 118(3):1493-1512 16 Feb 2013
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A joint effort to deliver satellite retrieved atmospheric CO2 concentrations for surface flux inversions: the ensemble median algorithm EMMA. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 13(4):1771-1780 01 Jan 2013
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Characterisation of GOME-2 formaldehyde retrieval sensitivity.ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES 6(2):371-386 01 Jan 2013
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Estimating regional methane surface fluxes: the relative importance of surface and GOSAT mole fraction measurements. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 13(11):5697-5713 01 Jan 2013
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First satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and methane emission ratios in wildfire plumes. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 40(15):4098-4102 16 Aug 2013
- Buchwitz M, Reuter M, Schneising O, Bovensmann H, Burrows JP, Deutscher NM, Heymann J, Noël S, Notholt J, Warneke T, et al.. The Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparison and quality assessment of near-surface-sensitive satellite-derived CO2 and CH4 global data sets. Remote Sensing of Environment 2013
Research
Satellite-based remote sensing of atmospheric greenhouse gases
Development of ground-based and aircraft instruments for greenhouse gas remote sensing
Design of new satellite missions for greenhouse gases