Dataset
ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci): Column-averaged methane from Sentinel-5P, generated with the WFM-DOAS algorithm, version 1.8, November 2017 - October 2023
Abstract
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 1.8, and covers the period from November 2017 - October 2023.
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., Hachmeister, J., Vanselow, S., Reuter, M., Buschmann, M., Bovensmann, H., and Burrows, J. P.: Advances in retrieving XCH4 and XCO from Sentinel-5 Precursor: improvements in the scientific TROPOMI/WFMD algorithm, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 669–694, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-669-2023, 2023.
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_ghg_terms_and_conditions.pdf When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
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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. |
| Data Quality: |
Data are as given by the data provider, no quality control has been performed by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
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Data are in netCDF format.
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) | Deployed on: Sentinel 5 Precursor |
Computation Element: 1
| Title | Derivation of the CH4_S5P_WFMD v1.8 product from the WFM-DOAS Retrieval algorithm |
| Abstract | The Weighting Function Modified Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (WFM-DOAS) algorithm is a least-squares retrieval method based on scaling (or shifting) pre-selected atmospheric vertical profiles. The column-averaged dry air mole fractions of methane (denoted XCH4) are derived from the vertical column amounts of methane by normalising with the dry air column, which is obtained from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis v5 (ERA5). The corresponding vertical columns of CH4 are retrieved from the measured sun-normalised radiance using spectral fitting windows in the SWIR spectral region (2311-2315.5 nm and 2320-2338 nm). For further details see the documentation section. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
| Output Description | None |
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Temporal Range
2017-11-13T00:00:00
2023-10-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
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