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We determined the measurement precisions of column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of H2O (XH2O) retrieved independently from spectral radiances in the thermal infrared (TIR) and the short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) regions measured using a Thermal And Near-infrared Sensor for carbon Observation-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (TANSO-FTS) onboard the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT), by an intercomparison between the two TANSO-FTS XH2O data products and the ground-based FTS XH2O data. Furthermore, the spatial variability of XH2O was also estimated in the intercomparison process. Mutually coincident XH2O data above land for the period ranging from April 2009 to May 2014 were intercompared with different spatial coincidence criteria. We found that the precisions of the TANSO-FTS TIR and TANSO-FTS SWIR XH2O were 7.3%\u20137.7% and 3.5%\u20134.5%, respectively, and that the spatial variability of XH2O was 6.7% within a radius of 50 km and 18.5% within a radius of 200 km. These results demonstrate that, in order to accurately evaluate the measurement precision of XH2O, it is necessary to set more rigorous spatial coincidence criteria or to take into account the spatial variability of XH2O as derived in the present study.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9010064","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,12]],"date-time":"2017-01-12T10:02:08Z","timestamp":1484215328000},"page":"64","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Intercomparison of XH2O Data from the GOSAT TANSO-FTS (TIR and SWIR) and Ground-Based FTS Measurements: Impact of the Spatial Variability of XH2O on the Intercomparison"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2109-9874","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hirofumi","family":"Ohyama","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuji","family":"Kawakami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-8505, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kei","family":"Shiomi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-8505, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2720-1569","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Isamu","family":"Morino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8506, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Osamu","family":"Uchino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8506, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"K\u00e4mpfer, N. 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