The MPIC/DLR climate water vapor product

The MPIC/DLR "climate" water vapor product, developed within ESA's "GOME Evolution" project, provides a consistent time series of monthly mean H2O columns from the satellite instruments GOME, SCIAMACHY, and GOME-2 (MetopA).

Consistency amongst the different instruments (including cloud treatment) is substantially improved by (1) merging SCIAMACHY and GOME-2 observations to GOME pixel size, and (2) reducing the GOME-2 swath width to GOME/SCIAMACHY swath, thereby mimicking GOME-like observation conditions for all three sensors.

WARNING: Version 1.0 is based on spectral analysis settings which have slightly changed during the GOME-2 timeseries, introducing a small but clear "jump" in the TCWV timeseries at the turn of the years 2012/2013.

This version should not be used any more!

Use version >2.2 instead! doi:10.1594/WDCC/GOME-EVL_water_vapor_clim_v2.2

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Citation

Alternate title

The MPIC/DLR climate water vapor product
Date (Creation)
2017-01-13
Citation identifier
None
Citation identifier
doi:10.1594/WDCC/MPIC_DLR_water_vapor / The MPIC/DLR climate water vapor product
Originator
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Steffen Beirle
www.mpic.de
Originator
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Thomas Wagner
http://www.caribic-atmospheric.com
Originator
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Johannes Lampel
http://www.caribic-atmospheric.com
Originator
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Yang Wang
www.mpic.de
Originator
  Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Margherita Grossi
Originator
  Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Diego Loyola
Other citation details

doi:10.1594/WDCC/MPIC_DLR_water_vapor
Author
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Steffen Beirle
www.mpic.de
Author
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Johannes Lampel
http://www.caribic-atmospheric.com
Author
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Yang Wang
www.mpic.de
Author
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Thomas Wagner
http://www.caribic-atmospheric.com
Author
  Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Margherita Grossi
Author
  Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Diego Loyola
Point of contact
  Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry - Steffen Beirle
www.mpic.de
Theme

  • satellite
Theme

  • global climatology
Theme

  • ERS-2
Theme

  • ENVISAT
Theme

  • GOME-2
Theme

  • SCIAMACHY
Theme

  • GOME
Language
English

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Begin date
1995-06-01
End date
2015-12-31
 

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  • NetCDF ( network Common Data Format )

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OnLine resource
http://doi.org/doi:10.1594/WDCC/MPIC_DLR_water_vapor
 

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Series
 

Content

Coverage Description

Attribute description
atmosphere_mass_content_of_water_vapor
Content type
modelResult
Descriptor

kg m-2
 

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Keywords

ENVISAT ERS-2 GOME GOME-2 SCIAMACHY global climatology satellite

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