*Prabir Patra^1,2, Tomohiro Hajima¹, Ryu Saito³, Naveen Chandra¹, Yukio Yoshida⁴, Michio Kawamiya¹, Masayuki Kondo², Kazuhito Ichii², Akihiko Ito⁴, Dave Crisp⁵ (1.Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, 2.Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan, 3.Disaster Risk Reduction and Environ. SBU, Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 183-0057, Japan, 4.Center for Global Environmental Research, NIES, Tsukuba, 305-8506, Japan, 5.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA)

*Masayuki Kondo¹ (1. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University)

*Kazuhito Ichii¹, Masayuki Kondo¹, Prabir Patra², Nobuko Saigusa³, Josep Canadell⁴ (1.Chiba University, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3.National Institute for Environmental Studies, 4.Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)