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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2020-03-31T16:11:33
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2020-03-31T16:11:33
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511
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doi / 10.5285/3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511
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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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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_ghg_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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English
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  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
2017-11-10T00:00:00
End date
2018-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ghg/data/cci_plus/CH4_S5P_WFMD/v1.2/

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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
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/sites/default/files/PUGv1_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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Dataset

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Title

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
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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3534bbf43fa14e40bc61944eaf664511 XML
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English
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ESA Greenhouse Gases Climate Change Initiative (GHG_cci) dataset collection

0508f3dd991144aa80346007a415fb07
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Dataset
Date stamp
2026-03-09T03:20:24
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
Metadata author
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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