[1] In the article “On error estimation in atmospheric CO2 inversions” (Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(D22), 4635, doi:10.1029/2002JD002195, 2002), owing to a publisher's error, authorship was incorrectly attributed to a group. TransCom3 Modelers should not have been listed among the authors, as only individual persons who have significantly contributed to the research should be listed. Therefore the authors should have been as follows: R. J. Engelen, A. Scott Denning, K. R. Gurney, R. M. Law, A. S. Denning, P. J. Rayner, D. Baker, P. Bousquet, L. Bruhwiler, Y.-H. Chen, P. Ciais, S. Fan, I. Y. Fung, M. Gloor, M. Heimann, K. Higuchi, J. John, T. Maki, S. Maksyutov, K. Masarie, P. Peylin, M. Prather, B. C. Pak, J. Sarmiento, S. Taguchi, T. Takahashi, and C.-W. Yuen.