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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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2020-03-31T16:11:33

Dataset Reference Date (): 2020-03-31T16:11:33

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511

Identifier: doi / 10.5285/3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511

Unavailable - Schneising, O. ( author )

Unavailable - Buchwitz, M. ( author )

Unavailable - Reuter, M. ( author )

Unavailable - Bovensmann, H. ( author )

Unavailable - Burrows, J. P. ( author )

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Keywords

greenhouse gases
TROPOMI
Sentinel-5P
ESA
CCI
satellite
Sentinel-5 Precursor
TROPOMI
atmosphere
methane
carbon monoxide

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

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Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

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Other constraints: Use of these data is covered by the following licence: 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.

Spatial representation type: grid

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Begin date: 2017-11-10T00:00:00

End date: 2018-12-31T23:59:59

Code: WGS 84

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Data format

Data are netCDF formatted. ()

Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: A scientific algorithm to simultaneously retrieve carbon monoxide and methane from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor
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Resource Locator: Greenhouse Gases CCI project
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Resource Locator: ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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Resource Locator: A scientific algorithm to simultaneously retrieve carbon monoxide and methane from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor
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Resource Locator: ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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Dataset Reference Date (): 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.

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File identifier: 3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci) dataset collection 0508f3dd991144aa80346007a415fb07

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2023-03-23T00:53:59

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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