Auxiliary Material for Paper 2011GL048738 New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity Christian Frankenberg, Joshua B. Fisher, John Worden, Grayson Badgley, Sassan S. Saatchi, Jung-Eun Lee, and Geoffrey C. Toon Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA Andre Butz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Leopoldshafen, Germany Martin Jung Biogeochemical Model-Data Integration Group, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany Akihiko Kuze Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan Tatsuya Yokota National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan Frankenberg, C., et al. (2011), New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity., Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L17706, doi:10.1029/2011GL048738. Introduction The auxiliary material provides additional text and embedded figures helping to corroborate the main manuscript. Specifically, a correction of the fluorescence is described in detail and a comprehensive discussion of retrieval accuracy and precision is provided. 1. 2011gl048738-txts01.pdf Text S1. Detailed description of a correction of the fluorescence and a comprehensive discussion of retrieval accuracy and precision.