Abstract. The TOPAS (Tikhonov regularised Ozone Profile retrievAl with SCIATRAN) algorithm to retrieve vertical profiles of ozone from space-borne observations in nadir-viewing geometry has been developed at the Institute Environmental Physics (IUP) University Bremen and applied TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) L1B spectral data version 2. Spectral between 270 329 nm are used for re...

Abstract. High quality long-term data sets of altitude-resolved measurements the atmospheric composition are important because they can be used both to study evolution atmosphere and as a benchmark for future missions. For final ESA reprocessing MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer Passive Atmospheric Sounding) on ENVISAT (ENViromental SATellite) data, numerous improvements were implemented in Level...

Emissivity mapping of the Earth’s surface is the prerequisite to thermal remote sensing. A precise determinationof a surface's temperature is dependent upon the availability of precise emissivity data for that surface. The presentstudy area is a part of sugarcane plantation fields in the west part of Khuzestan province. In this work, TemperatureEmissivity Separation algorithm (TES) was applied ...

The 40+ years-long sea surface temperature (SST) dataset from 4 km Global Area Coverage (GAC) data of the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometers (AVHRR/2s and/3s) flown onboard ten NOAA satellites (N07/09/11/12/14/15/16/17/18/19) has been created under AVHRR GAC SST Reanalysis 2 (RAN2) Project. were reprocessed with Clear Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) enterprise system. Two products are re...

emissivity mapping of the earth’s surface is the prerequisite to thermal remote sensing. a precise determinationof a surface's temperature is dependent upon the availability of precise emissivity data for that surface. the presentstudy area is a part of sugarcane plantation fields in the west part of khuzestan province. in this work, temperatureemissivity separation algorithm (tes) was applied ...

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission (SMOS) from the European Space Agency, launched in November 2009, has initiated the era of satellite-based salinity observations. The Microwave Interferometric Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) instrument provides information on the correlation between the measurements done by its set of 72 antennas. However, because of the instrument comple...

This ATBD (Algorithm Theoretical Based Document) describes the proposed algorithm for Level 2 biophysical land products derived from MERIS top of canopy reflectance data with justification of the choices made. The biophysical land products considered are the following set of biophysical variables: LAI, fCover, CB ab B and LAI.CB ab B. The algorithm accepts as inputs the top of canopy reflectanc...

This paper evaluates the suitability of readily available elevation data derived from recent sensors – the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) – for glaciological applications. The study area is Nevado Coropuna (6426 m), situated in Cordillera Ampato of Southern Peru. The glaciated area was 82.6 km in 1962, based...

The Collection 6 (C6) MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) land and atmosphere data sets are scheduled for release in 2014. C6 contains significant revisions of the calibration approach to account for sensor aging. This analysis documents the presence of systematic temporal trends in the visible and near-infrared (500 m) bands of the Collection 5 (C5) MODIS Terra and, to lesser...