Emission Spectra Data and Derived Products from the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) on-board the European Space Agency (ESA) Envisat Satellite

The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) is one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched from Kourou (French Guyana) on the 28th February 2002 and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). MIPAS is a Fourier transform spectrometer for the measurement of high-resolution gaseous emission spectra at the Earth's limb. It operates in the near- to mid-infrared, where many of the main atmospheric trace gases have important emission features. Its main objectives are to provide simultaneous and global measurements of the middle atmosphere dynamics, radiation budget and chemical composition (O3, H2O, CH4, N2O, HNO3, NO2), and to monitor stratospheric ozone and CFCs.

The data issues by ESA include both Level 1B (emission spectra) and Level 2 (derived quantities) products. They come in a number of versions: a near real time (nrt) version, a consolidated version, result of a first processing by ESA to eliminate bad data and perform a few basic checks, and fully reprocessed spectra. MIPAS is a Fourier transform spectrometer for the measurement of high-resolution gaseous emission spectra at the Earth's limb. It operates in the near- to mid-infrared spectra.

The data routinely archived at the NEODC is received from ESA through different routes (DDS, FTP, tapes). The archive currently includes:

Level 1B data (emission spectra)

NRT data - September 2002 - May 2011

consolidated data - June 2002 - January 2004

reprocessed data - July 2002 - April 2012 - processing versions v4.x (2002-2010) and v5.x (2002-2012)

Level 2 data (derived products)

consolidated data - July 2002 - February 2004

reprocessed data - July 2002 - March 2004

Date (Publication): 2007-12-10T02:41:31

Date (Creation): 2007-12-10T02:41:31

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4a9da084adf4252752e5fe77a5cfd0a9

Citation identifier: NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 4a9da084adf4252752e5fe77a5cfd0a9

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
European Space Agency (ESA)	unknown	Author
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)	neodc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

MIPAS
Envisat satellite

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/mipas.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under unstated 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.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2002-03-01T00:00:00

End date: 2012-04-07T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)		neodc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/4a9da084adf4252752e5fe77a5cfd0a9	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://envisat.esa.int/instruments/mipas/	ESA MIPAS website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.stcorp.nl/beat/download/	BEAT executable tools and an application programming interface

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/pi-community?e=XDctYy0WaRLaJNhebsewi1ErZRG7wKE9gap7LbOboTo6u1ZOcpyMvGnZhVgTGK1sKPQogqSaiNyqkCeUdJR2IAVRcXPiXjm4nt	ESA website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://jeeves.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/mipas.pdf	MIPAS Conditions of Use

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/envisat	Envisat webpage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www-atm.physics.ox.ac.uk/group/mipas/	Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/mipas	MIPAS archive

Hierarchy level: Series

Conformance result

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: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: 4a9da084adf4252752e5fe77a5cfd0a9 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-03-01T03:27:29

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)		neodc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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