The "climate" water vapor product developed within ESA's "GOME-Evolution" project provides a consistent time series of monthly mean global maps of total column water vapor derived from the satellite instruments GOME, SCIAMACHY, and GOME-2 (Metop-A).
Consistency amongst the different instruments (including cloud treatment) is substantially improved by (1) merging SCIAMACHY and GOME-2 observations to GOME pixel size, and (2) reducing the GOME-2 swath width to GOME/SCIAMACHY swath, thereby mimicking GOME-like observation conditions for all three sensors.
This is Version 2.2
Beirle, Steffen; Lampel, Johannes; Wang, Yang; Wagner, Thomas; Grossi, Margherita; Loyola, Diego (2018). The GOME-Evolution total column water vapor "climate" product (Version 2.2). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/GOME-EVL_water_vapor_clim_v2.2
Description of methods see additional_info
For a detailed description of the methods see: GOME_Evl_ClimateProduct_TCWV_v2.2.txt
Beirle et al., The MPIC/DLR Climate product, to be submitted to ESSD, in preparation.
Grossi et al., AMT, 2016.
van Malderen et al., AMT, 2014.
Wagner et al., Description of the MPI-Mainz H2O retrieval, http://www.sciamachy.org/products/H2O/H2Ovc_IUP_AD.pdf, 2011
Completeness report
Missing values are indicated as NaN
Description
Missing values are indicated as NaN
FAIR
F-UJI result: total 66 %
Description
Summary: Findable: 6 of 7 level; Accessible: 2 of 3 level; Interoperable: 3 of 4 level; Reusable: 5 of 10 level
SQA - Scientific Quality Assurance 'approved by author'
Result Date
2018-02-13
Technical Quality Assurance (TQA)
TQA - Technical Quality Assurance 'approved by WDCC'
Description
1. Number of data sets is correct and > 0: passed; 2. Size of every data set is > 0: passed; 3. The data sets and corresponding metadata are accessible: passed; 4. The data sizes are controlled and correct: passed; 5. The temporal coverage description (metadata) is consistent to the data: passed; 6. The format is correct: passed; 7. Variable description and data are consistent: passed
Method
WDCC-TQA checklist
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. The list of TQA metrics are documented in the 'WDCC User Guide for Data Publication' Chapter 8.1.1
[1] DOIBeirle, S.; Lampel, J.; Wang, Y.; Mies, K.; Grossi, M.; Loyola, D.; Dehn, A.; Danielczok, A.; Schröder, M.; Wagner, T. (2017). The ESA GOME-Evolution "Climate" water vapor product: A homogenized time-series of H2O columns from GOME/SCIAMACHY/GOME-2. doi:10.5194/essd-10-449-2018