NERC Data Catalogue Service
SCIAMACHY: Global Radiance and Vertical Columns of Trace Gases Data
The Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) was one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched from Kourou (French Guyana) on the 28th of February 2002 and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) until May 2012. SCIAMACHY measures transmitted, backscattered and reflected radiances from the atmosphere at high resolution (240 to 1700 nm, 2 microns and 2.4 microns). The instrument makes limb and nadir observations that can be combined. Its main objective was to provide global measurements of trace gases in the troposphere and the stratosphere.
The data issued by ESA include Level 1B (radiances) and Level 2 (derived quantities) products. They come in a number of versions: a near real time (nrt) version, a consolidated version, result of a first processing by ESA to eliminate bad data and perform a few basic checks, and fully reprocessed versions.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2007-12-10T02:41:33
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-12-10T02:41:33
- Identifier
- NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 6877f4f100d22f750b44f4c3b7ada498
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Update scope
- series Series
- Keywords
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- SCIAMACHY
- Satellite
- gases
- atmosphere
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2002-03-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2012-04-11T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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ESA SCIAMACHY website
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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ESA website
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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ESA Envisat website
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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SCIAMACHY Validation and Interpretation Group (SCIAVALIG)
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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SCIAMACHY webiste
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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SCIAMACHY Operations Support
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- 6877f4f100d22f750b44f4c3b7ada498 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:26:57
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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