The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on September 2012 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-B). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on September 2012 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-B). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on October 2006 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-A). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. The operational SO2 total column products are generated using the algorithm GDP (GOME Data Processor) version 4.x integrated into the UPAS (Universal Processor for UV/VIS Atmospheric Spectrometers) processor for generating level 2 trace gas and cloud products. GDP 4.x performs a DOAS fit for SO2 slant column followed by an AMF/VCD computation using a single wavelength. Corrections are applied to the slant column for: • Equatorial offset • Interference of SO2 and O3 absorption • SZA dependence The SO2 column for volcanic eruptions is calculated for 3 different assumed plume heights: 2.5 km, 6 km, 15 km. A description of the SO2 retrieval and validation is given in [Rix et al. (2009), Loyola et al. (2008), Thomas et al. (2005)] . A description of the tropospheric SO2 algorithm and validation is given in the reference listed in the GOME-2 documentation pages. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

Currently there are two Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) instrument operating in tanden on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellites (MetOp-A and MetOp-B). GOME-2 can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on October 2006 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-A). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants.DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. OCRA (Optical Cloud Recognition Algorithm) and ROCINN (Retrieval of Cloud Information using Neural Networks) [Loyola et al. (2007) and Loyola et al. (2010)] are used for retrieving geophysical cloud properties from GOME-type sensors. OCRA uses the PMD devices on GOME to deliver the cloud fractions of the measured ground pixel. ROCINN takes the OCRA cloud fraction as input and uses a neural network scheme to invert GOME-type reflectivities in and around the O2 A band. The cloud-top pressure for GOME scenes is derived from the cloud-top height provided by ROCINN and an appropriated pressure profile. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on September 2012 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-B). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on September 2012 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-B). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on September 2012 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-AB). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on October 2006 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-A). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. The operational BrO total column products are generated using the algorithm GDP (GOME Data Processor) version 4.x integrated into the UPAS (Universal Processor for UV/VIS Atmospheric Spectrometers) processor for generating level 2 trace gas and cloud products. Activities on further improvements of the BrO column algorithm are ongoing [Van Roozendael and Theys (2005), Theys et al. (2009b)] This work focuses on optimizing the accuracy of global total BrO columns, as well as polar tropospheric BrO columns. DOAS slant column fitting On the basis of noise driven considerations, the fitting window 336-351.5 nm was selected for the GOME-2. A BrO cross-section is included in the fit, as well as the cross-sections of the interfering trace gases: ozone, NO2, O2-O2. Two Ring reference spectrums are included as an additive fitting parameter. The detailed DOAS settings used for GOME-2 BrO slant columns retrieval are given in the [DLR/GOME-2/ATBD]. AMF and VCD determination The AMF is calculated with the LIDORT 3.3 model for the fitting window mid-point, since BrO is an optically thin absorber in this wavelength region. To incorporate the seasonal and latitudinal variation in stratospheric BrO in the AMF calculations, a stratospheric BrO profile climatology is used [Bruns et al. (2003)]. This climatology contains monthly mean BrO profiles as a function of latitude, based on the chemistry transport model SLIMCAT. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) was launched on September 2012 on board EUMETSAT's Metereological Operational Satellite (MetOp-B). This instrument continues the long-term monitoring of atmospheric trace gas constituents started with GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat. It can measure a range of atmospheric trace constituents, with the emphasis on global ozone distributions. Furthermore cloud properties and intensities of ultraviolet radiation are retrieved. These data are crucial for monitoring the atmospheric composition and the detection of pollutants. DLR generates operational GOME-2/MetOp level 2 products in the framework of EUMETSAT's Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring (AC-SAF). GOME-2 near-real-time products are available already two hours after sensing. For more details please refer to https://atmos.eoc.dlr.de/app/missions/gome2