Carbon dioxide columns from SCIAMACHY

Carbon dioxide columns from SCIAMACHY

The dry air column averaged mixing ratio of carbon dioxide (CO₂), denoted XCO₂, derived from SCIAMACHY near-infrared nadir spectra is a new data product. At the University of Bremen we retrieve XCO₂ using a modified DOAS algorithm called WFM-DOAS. Our processing system is still under development and not yet fully operational and our data products have not yet been fully validated. Here we show some example results obtained with WFM-DOAS, version 1.0.

Latest results

XCO₂ SCIAMACHY Jun 2003	XCO₂ SCIAMACHY Jul 2003

Documentation

Product:

Link to product specification document: PDF file
Link to format description: PDF file
Link to University of Bremen WFM-DOAS main page: WFM-DOAS main page
Links to other relevant documents: List of publications

Validation

Dils et al., Comparison between SCIAMACHY and ground-based FTIR data for total columns of CO, CH4, CO2, and N2O, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 1953-1976, 2006. ( PDF file )
See also: List of publications

Background information

Main references:

Buchwitz, M., I. Khlystova, O. Schneising, H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows, SCIAMACHY/WFM-DOAS tropospheric CO, CH4, and CO2 scientific data products: Validation and recent developments, proceedings of the Third Workshop on the Atmospheric Chemistry Validation of ENVISAT (ACVE-3), 4-7 Dec. 2006, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, ESA Publications Division Special Publication SP-642 (CD), 2006. (PDF file )
Buchwitz, M., R. de Beek, S. Noël, J. P. Burrows, H. Bovensmann, O. Schneising, I. Khlystova, M. Bruns, H. Bremer, P. Bergamaschi, S. Körner, M. Heimann, Atmospheric carbon gases retrieved from SCIAMACHY by WFM-DOAS: version 0.5 CO and CH4 and impact of calibration improvements on CO2 retrieval, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 2727-2751, 2006. (PDF file )

Contact details

Service leader :	DLR-DFD (German Remote Sensing Data Center)
Contact person :	Julian Meyer-Arnek
How to contact :	Münchener Straße 20
	D-82234 Wessling
	+49 (0) 8153 / 28 - 1324
	julian.meyer-arnek(at)dlr.de
	or use the Cont act form

Service developer:	Institude of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen
Contact person:	Michael Buchwitz
How to contact :	Please use the Contact for m

Core users :	FastOpt GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

Acknowledgements

This work is being or has been funded by the BMBF (German "Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung") via DLR-Bonn and GSF/PT-UKF, the EU 5^th framework research project EVERGREEN, the State of Bremen and the University of Bremen, and ESA via GMES/PROMOTE.

Michael Buchwitz, last modification: 5 Jan 2007

Images:	SCIAMACHY/WFM-DOAS XCO₂
Howto get our data products:	Data download information
	Data download L2A (via WDC-RSAT)
	Data download L2B (via WDC-RSAT)
	Data download L3 (via WDC-RSAT)
	Information on data level L2A, L2B and L3.

Carbon dioxide columns from SCIAMACHY