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ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci): Column-averaged methane from Sentinel-5P, generated with the WFM-DOAS algorithm, version 1.2, November 2017 - July 2020

This product is the column-average dry-air mole fraction of atmospheric methane, denoted XCH4. It has been retrieved from radiance measurements from the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite in the 2.3 µm spectral range of the solar spectral range, using the Weighting Function Modified Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (WFM-DOAS or WFMD) retrieval algorithm. This dataset is also referred to as CH4_S5P_WFMD. This version of the product is version 1.2, and covers the period from November 2017 - July 2020.

The WFMD algorithm is based on iteratively fitting a simulated radiance spectrum to the measured spectrum using a least-squares method. The algorithm is very fast as it is based on a radiative transfer model based look-up table scheme. The product is limited to cloud-free scenes on the Earth's day side.

These data were produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project.

When citing this dataset, please also cite the following peer-reviewed publication:

Schneising, O., Buchwitz, M., Reuter, M., Bovensmann, H., Burrows, J. P., Borsdorff, T., Deutscher, N. M., Feist, D. G., Griffith, D. W. T., Hase, F., Hermans, C., Iraci, L. T., Kivi, R., Landgraf, J., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Petri, C., Pollard, D. F., Roche, S., Shiomi, K., Strong, K., Sussmann, R., Velazco, V. A., Warneke, T., and Wunch, D.: A scientific algorithm to simultaneously retrieve carbon monoxide and methane from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 6771–6802, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6771-2019, 2019.

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Date (Publication)
2021-09-02T16:51:29
Date (Creation)
2021-09-02T16:51:29
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f
Identifier
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f
Author
  Unavailable - Schneising, O. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Buchwitz, M. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Reuter, M. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Bovensmann, H. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Burrows, J. P. ( author )
Custodian
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - custodian
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - distributor
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Unavailable - Schneising, O. ( point_of_contact )
Publisher
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - publisher
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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notPlanned Not planned
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • ESA
  • CCI
  • satellite
  • Sentinel-5 Precursor
  • TROPOMI
  • atmosphere
  • methane
  • carbon monoxide
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • orthoimagery
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_ghg_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Begin date
2017-11-10T00:00:00
End date
2020-07-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are netCDF formatted. ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - Data Center Contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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A scientific algorithm to simultaneously retrieve carbon monoxide and methane from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor

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Product user guide

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Greenhouse Gases CCI project

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ESA Climate Change Initiative website

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Algorithm Theoretical Basis document for CH4_S5P_WFMD v1.2

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End-to-end ECV uncertainty budget for CH4_S5P_WFMD v1.2

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data were processed by the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Greenhouse Gas project team and supplied to CEDA as part of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal.
File identifier
1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci) dataset collection 0508f3dd991144aa80346007a415fb07
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:21:19
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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