University of Bremen IUP/IFE SCIAMACHY WFM-DOAS: Initial data products

CO from SCIAMACHY

First WFM-DOAS data set based on two verification orbits:

This page is maintained only for historical reasons.

The verification orbits data set is discussed in:

Buchwitz, M., and John P. Burrows, Retrieval of CH4, CO, and CO2 total column amounts from SCIAMACHY near-infrared nadir spectra: Retrieval algorithm and first results, Proceedings of SPIE 5235, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere VIII, K. P. Schäfer and A. Comeron and M. R. Carleer and R. H. Picard (Editors), 375-388, 2004. (PDF file)

CH4 product

Product(s): Vertical column and O2 normalized column (XCH4).

Auxillary information: The corresponding CH4 column averaging kernels can be obtained from here.

Available: Preliminary results from two (verification) orbits.

Data access: Verification orbits 4700 and 4701 from 23-January-2003, WFM-DOAS product Version 0.1:

  1. Documentation: READ.ME file (Ascii).
  2. Reference: Buchwitz and Burrows, 2003, SPIE paper (PDF).
  3. Orbit 4700: CH4 from orbit 4700 (Ascii).
  4. Orbit 4701: CH4 from orbit 4701 (Ascii).

CO2 product

Product(s): Vertical column and O2 normalized column (XCO2).

Auxillary information: The corresponding CO2 column averaging kernels can be obtained from here.

Available: Preliminary results from two (verification) orbits.

Data access: Verification orbits 4700 and 4701 (V3) from 23-January-2003, WFM-DOAS product Version 0.1:

  1. Documentation: READ.ME file (Ascii).
  2. Reference: Buchwitz and Burrows, 2003, SPIE paper (PDF).
  3. Orbit 4700: CO2 from verification orbit 4700 (Ascii).
  4. Orbit 4701: CO2 from verification orbit 4701 (Ascii).

CO product

Product(s): Vertical column.

Auxillary information: The corresponding CO column averaging kernels can be obtained from here.

Available: Preliminary results from two (verification) orbits.

Data access: Verification orbits 4700 and 4701 (V3) from 23-January-2003, WFM-DOAS product Version 0.1:

  1. Documentation: READ.ME file (Ascii).
  2. Reference: Buchwitz and Burrows, 2003, SPIE paper (PDF).
  3. Orbit 4700: CO from verification orbit 4700 (Ascii).
  4. Orbit 4701: CO from verification orbit 4701 (Ascii).

O2 product

Product(s): Vertical column (used to normalize the columns of CH4 and CO2).

Available: Preliminary results from two (verification) orbits.

Data access: Verification orbits 4700 and 4701 (V3) from 23-January-2003, WFM-DOAS product Version 0.1:

  1. Documentation: READ.ME file (Ascii).
  2. Reference: Buchwitz and Burrows, 2003, SPIE paper (PDF).
  3. Orbit 4700: O2 from verification orbit 4700 (Ascii).
  4. Orbit 4701: O2 from verification orbit 4701 (Ascii).

N2O product

Product(s): Vertical column (and XN2O, i.e., O2 normalized column).

Status: Currently only retrieved as a by-product of CH4 retrieval (see: "CH4 product").

Status of this page

Last modification: 28-June-2006.

Authors: Michael.Buchwitz@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de,

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