SCIAMACHY: Global Radiance and Vertical Columns of Trace Gases Data

The Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) was one of the ten instruments onboard the Envisat satellite launched from Kourou (French Guyana) on the 28th of February 2002 and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) until May 2012. SCIAMACHY measures transmitted, backscattered and reflected radiances from the atmosphere at high resolution (240 to 1700 nm, 2 microns and 2.4 microns). The instrument makes limb and nadir observations that can be combined. Its main objective was to provide global measurements of trace gases in the troposphere and the stratosphere.

The data issued by ESA include Level 1B (radiances) 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 versions.

Date (Publication): 2007-12-10T02:41:33

Date (Creation): 2007-12-10T02:41:33

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6877f4f100d22f750b44f4c3b7ada498

Citation identifier: NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 6877f4f100d22f750b44f4c3b7ada498

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

SCIAMACHY
Satellite
gases
atmosphere

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/sciamachy.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic 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: 2012-04-11T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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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/6877f4f100d22f750b44f4c3b7ada498	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://envisat.esa.int/instruments/sciamachy/	ESA SCIAMACHY website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.esa.int/ESA	ESA website

OnLine resource

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.sciamachy.org/validation/	SCIAMACHY Validation and Interpretation Group (SCIAVALIG)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.sron.nl/sciamachy/	SCIAMACHY webiste

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://atmos.caf.dlr.de/projects/scops/	SCIAMACHY Operations Support

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: 6877f4f100d22f750b44f4c3b7ada498 XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-12-04T03:26:55

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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