Satellite Specifications Table
From Geos-chem
NOTE: Webpage still under development.
On this page we provide user-friendly look-up tables of (1) general satellite and instrument specifications, and (2) species-specific retrieval information , data links and relevant references for GEOS-Chem users interested in assessing the model against space-based observations.
General Satellite and Instrument Information
If you have used or are using space-based observations we invite you to add (or update) information to the table below. Data are added in chronological order, using satellite launch date.
Instrument | Satellite | Launch Date | Orbit | Equator Crossing Time | Footprint | Swath Width | Global Coverage |
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Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) | ERS-2 | April 1995 | sun-synchronous | 10h30 LT (descending node) | 320x40 km2 | 960 km | < 3 days |
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) | NASA EOS/Terra | December 1999 | sun-synchronous | 10h30 LT (descending node) | 14.6x17.6 km2 (for aerosol properties) | 400 km | 9 days |
Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) | NASA EOS/Terra | December 1999 | sun-synchronous | 10h30 LT (descending node) | 22x22 km2 (nadir) | 620 km | 3 days |
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY) | ESA ENVISAT | March 2002 | sun-synchronous | 10h30 LT (descending node) | 60x30 km2 | 960 km | 6 days |
Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) | NASA EOS/Aqua | May 2002 | sun-synchronous | 13h30 LT (ascending node) | 13.5 km (nadir) | 1650 km | 1 day |
Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) | NASA EOS/Aura | July 2004 | sun-synchronous | 13h45 LT (ascending node) | 13x24 km2 (nadir) | 2600 km | 1 day |
Tropospheric Emissions Spectrometer (TES) | NASA EOS/Aura | July 2004 | sun-synchronous | 13h45 LT (ascending node) | 0.53x5.3 km2 | 5.3x8.5 km2 | 16 days |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) | ESA MetOpA | October 2006 | sun-synchronous | 09h30 LT (descending node) | 80x40 km2 | 1920 km | 1.5 days |
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) | ESA MetOpA | October 2006 | sun-synchronous | 09h30 LT (descending node) | 12 km diameter x 4 pixels | 2200 km | 1 day |
Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observations - Fourier Transform Spectrometer (TANSO-FTS) | GOSAT | January 2009 | sun-synchronous | 13h00 LT (descending node) | 10.5 km diameter | 1000 km (Channel 1-3); 750 km (Channel 4) | 3 days |
--Emarais 11:16, 1 May 2013 (EDT)
Satellite-Observed Species Information
NOTE: table below is still in development!
Species (Instrument) | Version | Retrieval Spectrum | Spectral Resolution | DoFS | Uncertainty | Download link | References | Current Data Users |
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CH4 (SCIAMACHY) | 5.5 (IMAP) | 1630-1670 nm (Channel 6; SWIR) | 0.2-1.5 nm (full spectral range) | TBC | TBC | http://bit.ly/14WVqrb | Frankenberg et al., 2005; 2011 | Eloïse Marais |
CH4 (TANSO-FTS) | Rob Parker's retrieval (Level 1B) | 1.61 and 1.65 μm (SWIR) | 0.3 cm-1 | 1.0-1.5 | TBC | http://bit.ly/11D8qfJ | Yokota et al., 2009; Connor et al., 2008; Butz et al., 2010; 2011; Parker et al., 2011 | Alex Turner; Kevin Wecht |
CO (AIRS) | 5 (Level 2) | 4.7 μm | n/Dn ~ 1200 | 0.8 (daytime over land) | -- | http://1.usa.gov/11VF2CX | McMillan et al., 2005; 2008; 2011; Warner et al., 2007; 2010 | Patrick Kim; Eloïse Marais |
CO (IASI) | --- | 645-2760 cm-1 | 0.5 cm-1 | 1-2 | 10% | http://bit.ly/12X83yi | Clerbaux et al., 2009; George et al., 2009 | Jenny Fisher |
CO (TES) | 4 | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | http://1.usa.gov/12o9jIb | Worden et al., 2006; Bowman et al., 2006; Osterman, 2007 | TBC |
CO (MLS) | 3 | TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC | http://1.usa.gov/11YjCE2 | Livesey et al., 2011; 2013 | TBC |