Satellite Specifications Table
From Geos-chem
NOTE: Webpage still under development. The table and other information are being used as a template!
On this page we provide a user-friendly look-up table of satellite specifications 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 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
If you have used GEOS-Chem results in a model intercomparison study, we invite you to add your information to the table below.
Species (Instrument) | Version | Retrieval Spectrum | Spectral Resolution | DoFS | Uncertainty | Download link | References | Current Data Users | |
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CO (AIRS) | 5 | 4.7 μm | n/Dn ~ 1200 | 2008 | 0.8 (daytime over land) | -- | ftp://airspar1u.ecs.nasa.gov/data/s4pa/Aqua_AIRS_Level2/AIRX2SUP.005/ | McMillan et al., 2005; 2008; 2011; Warner et al., 2007; 2010 | Patrick Kim; Elo¨aut;se Marais |