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ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci): Column-averaged methane from Sentinel-5P, generated with the WFM-DOAS algorithm, version 1.2, November 2017 - July 2020
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 1.2, and covers the period from November 2017 - July 2020.
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., Reuter, M., Bovensmann, H., Burrows, J. P., Borsdorff, T., Deutscher, N. M., Feist, D. G., Griffith, D. W. T., Hase, F., Hermans, C., Iraci, L. T., Kivi, R., Landgraf, J., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Petri, C., Pollard, D. F., Roche, S., Shiomi, K., Strong, K., Sussmann, R., Velazco, V. A., Warneke, T., and Wunch, D.: A scientific algorithm to simultaneously retrieve carbon monoxide and methane from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 6771–6802, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6771-2019, 2019.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-02T16:51:29
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-09-02T16:51:29
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f
- Citation identifier
- NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f
- Citation identifier
- doi / 10.5285/1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Unavailable
Schneising, O.
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Buchwitz, M.
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Reuter, M.
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Bovensmann, H.
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Burrows, J. P.
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Author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Distributor NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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Schneising, O.
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pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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- Not planned
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- Dataset
- Keywords
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ESA
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CCI
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satellite
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Sentinel-5 Precursor
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TROPOMI
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atmosphere
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methane
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carbon monoxide
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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orthoimagery
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- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Grid
- Language
- English
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2017-11-10T00:00:00
- End date
- 2020-07-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version Data are netCDF formatted.
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ghg/data/cci_plus/CH4_S5P_WFMD/v1.2_extended_to_july2020/ DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/12/6771/2019/ A scientific algorithm to simultaneously retrieve carbon monoxide and methane from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/carbon_ghg/docs/GHG-CCIplus/CRDP6/PUGv3_GHG-CCI_CH4_S5P_WFMD.pdf Product user guide
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Protocol Linkage Name https://climate.esa.int/projects/ghgs Greenhouse Gases CCI project
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Protocol Linkage Name https://climate.esa.int ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/carbon_ghg/docs/GHG-CCIplus/CRDP6/ATBDv1_S5P_WFMD.pdf Algorithm Theoretical Basis document for CH4_S5P_WFMD v1.2
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/carbon_ghg/docs/GHG-CCIplus/CRDP6/E3UBv4_GHG-CCI_CH4_S5P_WFMD.pdf End-to-end ECV uncertainty budget for CH4_S5P_WFMD v1.2
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Conformance result
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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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.
Metadata
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- 1c9c816d0b8a4fbf878e7e0bfef5d79f XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- UTF8
- Parent identifier
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ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci) dataset collection
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-12-12T03:21:42
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
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