Nine years of atmospheric remote sensing with sciamachy - atmospheric parameters and data products

Author

Lichtenberg, G. ; Gottwald, Mathias ; Doicu, Adrian ; Schreier, Franz ; Hrechanyy, Sergei ; Kretschel, Klaus ; Meringer, Markus ; Hess, M. ; Gimeno-Garcia, Sebastian ; Bovensmann, Heinrich ; Eichmann, Kai-Uwe ; Noel, S. ; von Savigny, Christian ; Richter,

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Technol. Inst. (DLR-IMF), German Aerosp. Center, Wessling, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

3680

Lastpage

3683

Abstract

The SCIAMACHY instrument on-board ENVISAT measures since 2002 trace gas constituents of the atmosphere in nadir, limb and occultation configuration. It is an imaging spectrometer with q spectral range from the UV/VIS to SWIR (212 nm 2384 nm). In this paper we describe shortly the current status of the operational processing chains from Level 0-Ib and Level 1b-2 that deliver Earth radiances, solar irradiance, trace gas total columns and profiles as well as cloud characteristics on an orbital basis. An outlook for future operational products is also given.

Keywords

atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric composition; atmospheric techniques; remote sensing; ENVISAT; Earth radiances; Level 0-1b; Level 1b-2; SCIAMACHY instrument; atmospheric parameters; atmospheric remote sensing; cloud characteristics; data products; imaging spectrometer; occultation configuration; operational processing chains; orbital basis; solar irradiance; trace gas constituents; trace gas profiles; trace gas total columns; Atmospheric measurements; Calibration; Clouds; Extraterrestrial measurements; Geophysical measurements; Indexes; Program processors; SCIAMACHY; level 0-1b processing; level 1b-2 processing; operational products; science products;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050023

Filename

6050023