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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

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.

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.

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

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Date (Publication)
2020-03-31T16:11:33
Date (Creation)
2020-03-31T16:11:33
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511
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
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • greenhouse gases
  • TROPOMI
  • Sentinel-5P
  • ESA
  • CCI
  • satellite
  • Sentinel-5 Precursor
  • TROPOMI
  • atmosphere
  • methane
  • carbon monoxide
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • orthoimagery
Access constraints
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Other constraints
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
2017-11-10T00:00:00
End date
2018-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are netCDF formatted. ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , 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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Greenhouse Gases CCI project

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ESA Climate Change Initiative website

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data were processed by the ESA CCI GHG project team and supplied to CEDA as part of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.
File identifier
3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511 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
2025-11-16T03:19:41
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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