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Dataset

 

RAL extended Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) retrievals of atmospheric and surface properties: subset of four selected months in 2018 from Suomi-NPP, v1

Latest Data Update: 2021-12-14
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2021-12-16
DOI Publication Date: 2021-12-16
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 28.61K Files | 872GB

Abstract

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) extended Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) data set retrieves vertical profiles of temperature, water vapour (H2O), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), together with cloud optical depth and effective radius and column amounds of minor gases, dust and sulfuric acid aerosol optical depth. The scheme also provides surface temperature and surface spectral emissivity spanning infrared and microwave.

Column amounts of the following minor gases are retrieved: Nitric acid (HNO3), ammonia (NH3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), methanol (CH3OH), formic acid (HCOOH) and (for Suomi-NPP only) isoprene (C5H8).

The retrieval scheme has been applied to the infra-red and microwave sounders on platforms Metop (IASI, AMSU and MHS) and Suomi-NPP (CrIS and ATMS). The data sub-set provided here comprises four months (April, July, September, December) of Suomi-NPP data in 2018 produced with the horizontal sampling of CrIS, ~18x18 km.

Development of the core IMS scheme was funded by the UK’s National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) under the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), with additional funding from EUMETSAT contract EUM/CO/13/4600001252/THH. Development of the extended IMS scheme and production of this Suomi-NPP data sub-set were funded through NCEO. Data were produced by the Remote Sensing Group (RSG) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).”

Citable as:  Siddans, R.; Ventress, L.; Knappett, D.; Kerridge, B. (2021): RAL extended Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) retrievals of atmospheric and surface properties: subset of four selected months in 2018 from Suomi-NPP, v1. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 16 December 2021. doi:10.5285/5aa32fb863a048f0b24c541639cfd990. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/5aa32fb863a048f0b24c541639cfd990
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: RAL, IMS, atmospheric and surface properties, Suomi-NPP

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Data lineage:

Development of the IMS scheme and data production were funded by the UK’s National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) under the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), with additional funding from EUMETSAT contract EUM/CO/13/4600001252/THH

Data Quality:
Data are as given by the data provider, no quality control has been performed by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Citations: 1

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Palmer, P.I., Marvin, M.R., Siddans, R., Kerridge, B.J. & Moore, D.P. (2022) Nocturnal survival of isoprene linked to formation of upper tropospheric organic aerosol. Science 375, 562–566. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg4506 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg4506

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.

Instrument/Platform pairings

CrIS Deployed on: SNPP

Computation Element: 1

Title RAL extended Infrared Microware Sounder IMS retrieval scheme
Abstract For information on the RAL extended Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) retrieval scheme see the ATBD in the linked docmentation
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None
Output Description

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Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2018-04-01T00:00:00
End time:
2018-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°