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
Beirle, Steffen; Lampel, Johannes; Wang, Yang; Wagner, Thomas; Grossi, Margherita; Loyola, Diego (2017). The MPIC/DLR climate water vapor product. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/MPIC_DLR_water_vapor
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 instead! doi:10.1594/WDCC/GOME-EVL_water_vapor_climate Description of methods see additional_info H2O_Climate_product_description_v1.0.txt
For a detailed description of the methods see:
Beirle et al., The MPIC/DLR Climate product, to be submitted to ESSD, in preparation.
Grossi et al., AMT, 2016.
van Malderen et al., AMT, 2014.
Wagner et al., Description of the MPI-Mainz H2O retrieval, http://www.sciamachy.org/products/H2O/H2Ovc_IUP_AD.pdf, 2011
QA - Scientific Quality Assurance 'approved by author' 26/01/2017; TQA - Technical Quality Assurance 'approved by WDCC' 31/01/2017
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Johannes Lampel
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Yang Wang
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Thomas Wagner
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Margherita Grossi
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
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Diego Loyola
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Steffen Beirle
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Thomas Wagner
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Johannes Lampel
Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry
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Yang Wang
Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry
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Margherita Grossi
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
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Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
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[1] DOIBeirle, Steffen; Lampel, Johannes; Wang, Yang; Wagner, Thomas; Grossi, Margherita; Loyola, Diego. (2017). The GOME-Evolution total column water vapor "climate" product. doi:10.1594/WDCC/GOME-EVL_water_vapor_climate
[2] DOIBeirle, Steffen; Lampel, Johannes; Wang, Yang; Wagner, Thomas; Grossi, Margherita; Loyola, Diego. (2018). The GOME-Evolution total column water vapor "climate" product (Version 2.2). doi:10.1594/WDCC/GOME-EVL_water_vapor_clim_v2.2