https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-237 Preprint. Discussion started: 7 September 2021 c Author(s) 2021. CC BY 4.0 License. Investigation of space-borne trace gas products over St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, Russia by using COCCON observations Carlos Alberti1*, Qiansi Tu1*, Frank Hase1, Maria V. Makarova2, Konstantin Gribanov3, Stefani C. Foka2, 5 Vyacheslav Zakharov3, Thomas Blumenstock1, Michael Buchwitz4, Christopher Diekmann1, Benjamin Ertl5, Matthias M. Frey1,a, Hamud Kh. Imhasin2, Dmitry V. Ionov2, Farahnaz Khosrawi1, Sergey I. Osipov2, Maximilian Reuter4, Matthias Schneider1, and Thorsten Warneke4 1Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany a now at National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan 10 2Department of Atmospheric Physics, Faculty of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia 3Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, 620000, Russia 4Institute of Environmental Physics and Institute of Remote Sensing, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany 5Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC), Karlsruhe, Germany *These authors contributed equally to this work. 15 Correspondence to: Carlos Alberti (
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[email protected]) Abstract. This work employs ground- and space-based observations, together with model data to study columnar abundances of atmospheric trace gases (XH2O, XCO2, XCH4, and XCO) in two high-latitude Russian cities, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. Two portable COllaborative Column Carbon Observing Network (COCCON) spectrometers were used for continuous measurements at these locations during 2019 and 2020. Additionally, a subset of data of special interest (a strong 20 gradient in XCH4 and XCO was detected) collected in the framework of a mobile city campaign performed in 2019 using both instruments is investigated.