Sentinel-5P TROPOMI – Cloud-Top Height (CTH), Level 3 – Global

Global Cloud-Top Height (CTH) as derived from the Sentinel-5P/TROPOMI instrument. Clouds play a crucial role in the Earth's climate system and have significant effects on trace gas retrievals. The cloud-top height is retrieved from the O2-A band using the ROCINN algorithm. Daily observations are binned onto a regular latitude-longitude grid.

The TROPOMI instrument aboard the SENTINEL-5P space craft is a nadir-viewing, imaging spectrometer covering wavelength bands between the ultraviolet and the shortwave infra-red. TROPOMI's purpose is to measure atmospheric properties and constituents. It is contributing to monitoring air quality and providing critical information to services and decision makers.


The instrument uses passive remote sensing techniques by measuring the Top Of Atmosphere (TOA) solar radiation reflected by and radiated from the earth and its atmosphere. The four spectrometers of TROPOMI cover the ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS), Near Infra-Red (NIR) and Short Wavelength Infra-Red (SWIR) domains of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing operational retrieval of the following trace gas constituents: Ozone (O3), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), Formaldehyde (HCHO), Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Methane (CH4).


Within the INPULS project, innovative algorithms and processors for the generation of Level 3 and Level 4 products, improved data discovery and access technologies as well as server-side analytics for the users are developed.

INSPIRE

Identification

File identifier
8308bb92-86b9-41ac-b8d8-493d0d2b2b0e XML
Hierarchy level
Series
Online resource
Protocol

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Protocol

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Protocol

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Protocol

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Protocol

OGC:WMS
Protocol

radiantearth:stac
Protocol

OGC:WMS-http-get-capabilities
Protocol

OGC:WCS-http-get-capabilities
Resource identifier
code

https://geoservice.dlr.de/catalogue/srv/metadata/8308bb92-86b9-41ac-b8d8-493d0d2b2b0e

Metadata language
Deutsch
Spatial representation type
Grid
Encoding
Format

GeoTIFF
Projection
code
EPSG:4326
 

Classification of data and services

Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Coupled resource
 
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Coupled resource
 
 

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Spatial scope

Other keywords

Keywords

  • DLR

  • EOC

  • Sentinel-5P

  • TROPOMI

  • cloud-top height

  • Atmosphere

  • Cloud-Top Height (CTH)

  • Daily

  • Level 3

  • opendata
 
 

Geographic coverage

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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
Begin
2018-04-30T00:00:00
Temporal extent
Date (Creation)
2023-12-11T10:00:00
 

Quality and validity

Lineage

The input data for the L3 product is the Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Level 2 product "L2__CLOUD_"
Denominator
2000000
 

Conformity

Conformity
Conformity
 

Conformity

Conformity
Conformity
Explanation

See the referenced specification.
 

Restrictions on access and use

Access constraints
Es gelten keine Zugriffsbeschränkungen
Access constraints

Nutzungsbedingungen: Lizenz, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 / Terms of use: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Access constraints

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"quelle": "Copyright DLR (Year of download)"}
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email

Victor.MolinaGarcia@dlr.de

Organisation name

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email

geoservice@dlr.de

 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email

Victor.MolinaGarcia@dlr.de

Organisation name

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email

geoservice@dlr.de

 

Metadata information

Contact for the metadata
Organisation name

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email

geoservice@dlr.de

Date stamp
2025-06-30T08:11:09
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
 
 

SDS

Conformance class 1: invocable

Access Point URL
Endpoint URL
Technical specification
 

Conformance class 2: interoperable

Access constraints

Limitation
 

Use constraints

Limitation
 

Responsible custodian

Contact for the resource
 
 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Atmospheric conditions

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