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GOME: Vertical Profiles of Ozone and other Trace Gases Ozone profiles Version 2.1

This dataset contains version 2.1 ozone profiles derived by the Remote Sensing Group (RSG) at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK, as part of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO). These were derived from radiances measured by the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) on-board ERS-2. The collection also includes total column ozone, column BrO, and column NO2 as well as cloud heights derived from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR), which are included to aid interpretation of the ozone profiles.

Retrieved sulfur dioxide column amounts and heights from the IASI instrument v1.0

This dataset was used to study the large plume of SO2 from the April 2021 eruption of La Soufrière on St Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean. The data has been produced by the Earth Observation Data Group at the University of Oxford, as part of the NERC Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET).

Cloud Index retrievals from MIPAS ENVISAT L1B using MIPclouds algorithm

This data set contains retrievals from Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding on Envisat (MIPAS-ENVISAT) cloud and aerosol and contains information on derived cloud-top height (km), cloud-top temperature (K), cloud extinction (cm-1), with uncertainties. It also includes the measured radiance in the three cloud microwindow bands (832.0-834.4 cm-1, 1232.3-1234.4 cm-1, 1973.0-1983.0 cm-1), with noise equivalent spectral radiance values. Cloud index values are used to distinguish different clouds types based on the index value.

Solar-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence from GOSAT’s TANSO-FTS by the University of Leicester, V3.0

Solar-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) data created from the Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT) Level 1B data using an adapted version of the University of Leicester Full-Physics retrieval scheme (UoL-FP). These dataset contains both Level 2 and Level 3 S-polarised SIF. The Level 2 data are in daily files and are not averaged, whilst the Level 3 data are averaged spatially and temporally on both a monthly and weekly timescale.

SIAC (atmospheric correction)

This atmospheric correction method uses MODIS MCD43 BRDF product to get a coarse resolution simulation of earth surface. A model based on MODIS PSF is built to deal with the scale differences between MODIS and Sentinel 2 / Landsat 8. We uses the ECMWF CAMS prediction as a prior for the atmospheric states, coupling with 6S model to solve for the atmospheric parameters. We do not have topography correction and homogeneous surface is used without considering the BRDF effects.

Contact: Feng Yin (NCEO/UCL)

GEOS-Chem

A global 3D chemical transport model for atmospheric composition driven by meteorological input from the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) of the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.

Contact: Paul Palmer (NCEO/University of Edinburgh)

Atmospheric Infrared Spectrum Atlas

The Atmospheric Infrared Spectrum Atlas provides spectra for a wide range of molecules in Earth’s atmosphere. This website includes zenith absorption/optical thickness and limb radiance spectra on fully interactive graphs which can be customised show specific molecules, spectral ranges and satellite bands.

Contact: Anu Dudhia (NCEO/University of Oxford)

Reference Forward Model (RFM)

The RFM is a line-by-line radiative transfer model. RFM maintenance and development is currently supported by NCEO. Extensive online documentation can be found on the Reference Forward Model website. Download the source code here.
Contact: Anu Dudhia (University of Oxford)

RAL extended Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) retrievals of atmospheric and surface properties: subset of four selected months in 2018 from Suomi-NPP, v1

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) extended Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) data set retrieves vertical profiles of temperature, water vapour (H2O), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), together with cloud optical depth and effective radius and column amounds of minor gases, dust and sulfuric acid aerosol optical depth. The scheme also provides surface temperature and surface spectral emissivity spanning infrared and microwave.

Contact: Richard Siddans (NCEO/RAL)

Obs4MIPs: Monthly-mean diurnal cycle of top of atmosphere outgoing shortwave radiation from the GERB instrument (GERB-HR-ED01-1-1 rsut 1hrCM), v20231221

This dataset contains top of atmosphere (TOA) outgoing shortwave radiation from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument on board the Meteosat-9 geostationary satellite, for the period from May 2007 until December 2012. In this dataset (labelled ‘GERB-HR-ED01-1-1 rsut 1hrCM’), the data provided consist of monthly-mean diurnal cycles, with each day resolved into 1-hour means. Data are only available for eight months of each year (January, February, May, June, July, August, November and December), due to operational constraints of the GERB instrument.

Obs4MIPs: Monthly-mean diurnal cycle of top of atmosphere outgoing longwave radiation from the GERB instrument (GERB-HR-ED01-1-1 rlut 1hrCM), v20231221

This dataset contains top of atmosphere (TOA) outgoing longwave radiation from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument on board the Meteosat-9 geostationary satellite, for the period from May 2007 until December 2012. In this dataset (labelled ‘GERB-HR-ED01-1-1 rlut 1hrCM’), the data provided consist of monthly-mean diurnal cycles, with each day resolved into 1-hour means. Data are only available for eight months of each year (January, February, May, June, July, August, November and December), due to operational constraints of the GERB instrument.

Retrieved sulfur dioxide column amounts and heights from the IASI instrument (9-30 April 2021) v1.0

This dataset contains retrievals of sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) on the MetOp platforms. This is a global dataset for 9-30th April 2021 which includes plumes from La Soufrière (St Vincent), Sabancaya (Peru) and Sangay (Ecuador).

Solar-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence from GOSAT’s TANSO-FTS by the University of Leicester (v3.0)

STFC RAL methane retrievals from IASI on board MetOp-B, version 2.0

This Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) methane dataset contains height-resolved and column-averaged volume mixing ratios of atmospheric methane (CH4) retrieved from the IASI instrument on the MetOp-B satellite. It also includes column-averaged water vapour (H2O), a scale factor for the HDO (water vapour isotopologue) volume mixing ratio profile, surface temperature, effective cloud fraction, effective cloud-top pressure and scale factors for two systematic residual spectra which are jointly retrieved from the spectral range 1232.25-1290.00 cm-1. This dataset was produced by Version 2.0 of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory’s (RAL’s) IASI optimal estimation scheme to retrieve methane, which takes as input temperature and water vapour profiles and surface spectral emissivity pre-retrieved by RAL’s Infrared and Microwave Scheme applied to IASI, MHS and AMSU-A on MetOp-B. The dataset additionally contains selected a priori values and uncertainties adopted in the optimal estimation scheme and retrieval output diagnostics such as the retrieval cost and the averaging kernels.

University of Leicester GOSAT Proxy XCH4 v9.0

The University of Leicester GOSAT Proxy XCH4 v9.0 data set contains column-averaged dry-air mole fraction of methane (XCH4) generated from the Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT) Level 1B data using the University of Leicester Full-Physics retrieval scheme (UoL-FP) using the Proxy retrieval approach.

STFC RAL methane retrievals from IASI on board MetOp-A, version 2.0

This Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) methane dataset contains height-resolved and column-averaged volume mixing ratios of atmospheric methane (CH4). It also includes column-averaged water vapour (H2O), a scale factor for the HDO (water vapour isotopologue) volume mixing ratio profile, surface temperature, effective cloud fraction, effective cloud-top pressure and scale factors for two systematic residual spectra which are jointly retrieved from the spectral range 1232.25-1290.00 cm-1 by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) IASI optimal estimation methane retrieval scheme. The dataset additionally contains selected a priori values and uncertainties adopted in the optimal estimation scheme and retrieval output diagnostics such as the retrieval cost and the averaging kernels.

University of Leicester GOSAT Proxy XCH4 v9.0

Solar-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence from GOSAT’s TANSO-FTS by the University of Leicester

RAL Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) temperature, water vapour, ozone and surface spectral emissivity

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) data set contains vertical profiles of temperature, water vapour, and ozone as well as surface spectral emissivity spanning infrared and microwave, surface temperature, cloud fraction and height. Data are retrieved from co-located measurements by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) on board the Eumetsat Metop satellites.

STFC RAL methane retrievals from IASI on board MetOp-A, version 1.0

The Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) methane dataset contains height-resolved and column-averaged volume mixing ratios of atmospheric methane (CH4). It also includes column-averaged water vapour (H2O), a scale factor for the HDO volume mixing ratio profile, surface temperature, effective cloud fraction, effective cloud-top pressure and scale factors for two systematic residual spectra which are jointly retrieved from the spectral range 1232.25-1290.00 cm-1 by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) IASI optimal estimation methane retrieval scheme.

TOMCAT/SLIMCAT Monthly Mean Ozone Output: 1979-2016

The long-term simulation (1979-2016) was performed with a T42 horizontal resolution of approximately 2.8° latitude × 2.8° longitude and 32 levels from the surface to 60 km. The model uses horizontal winds and temperature from the reanalysis data of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

UTLS-Ozone SLIMCAT: Leeds University Three dimensional chemistry transport model (CTM) measurements Version 2

This data set includes 12 files, each of them corresponding to one output time near the middle of each month of Year 1997 (12 Jan, 11 Feb, 13 Mar, 12 Apr, 12 May, 11 Jun, 11 Jul, 10 Aug, 19 Sept, 19 Oct, 18 Nov, 18 Dec). Each file contains the calculated 3-D distribution of 37 chemical species or families and 6 meteorological variables. The model used is the SLIMCAT chemistry transport model (CTM). The model was run from October 1991 and forced by the UK Met Office analyses. The model used 18 isentropic levels. The vertical coordinate in the data files is the globally averaged altitude. The real lat/lon-dependent altitude is given in the ALT field recorded in the files. The THETA field gives the real model theta levels (which are constant with latitude/longitude).

UTLS-Ozone SLIMCAT: Leeds University Three dimensional chemistry transport model (CTM) measurements Version 1

The SLIMCAT Reference Atmosphere for UTLS-Ozone was a set of example output from the SLIMCAT three-dimensional chemical transport model (CTM). It includes three-dimensional global fields of chemical (and sometimes meteorological) variables as computed for twelve dates in 1997, near the middle of each month.