Document - General Reference

WATS - Water Vapour and Temperature in the Troposphere and Stratosphere.pdf

This report describes the WATS mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

Document - Technical Note

WALES - Water Vapour Lidar Experiment in Space

This report describes the WALES mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

News - Thematic area articles

Transforming space data into climate action

ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.

News - Success Stories

Trailblazing ERS-2 mission enables climate change applications

As ESA’s ERS-2 satellite approaches Earth’s atmosphere for reentry, it’s time to reflect on the mission’s great achievements in powering climate-related applications.

Document - General Reference

The-Changing-Earth-New-Scientific-Challenges-for-ESAs-Living-Planet-Programme.pdf

This article is extracted from ESA Bulletin Nr. 129.

Document - General Reference

The Science and Research Elements of ESA Living Planet Programme

This document presents the plans for the Earth Explorer element of the European Space Agency's 'Living Planet' Programme for Earth Observation.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Earth Radiation Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Earth Radiation mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Atmospheric Dynamics MIssion

This report for assessment addresses the Atmospheric Dynamics mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - General Reference

The Nine Candidate Earth Explorer Missions - Atmospheric Chemistry Mission

This report for assessment addresses the Atmospheric Chemistry mission when it was selected with other nine Earth Explorer missions as a potential candidate for Phase A study.

Document - Technical Note

The GOME Thermal Environment

Long Term Monitoring Of The GOME Thermal Environment

Document - General Reference

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME)

This document reports on what can be expected from the improved GOME-2 instrument. In order to underpin the case, the achievements of the existing instrument, GOME-1, in terms of instrument performance, routinely generated data products, and scientific results achieved so far are first summarised, before extrapolating to the expected performances and capabilities of the enhanced version GOME-2 being built for METOP.

Document - General Reference

The four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions - Earth Radiation Mission

This report describes the Earth Radiation Mission, one of the four Candidate Earth Explorers in 1999.

Document - General Reference

The four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions - Atmospheric Dynamics Mission

This report describes the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission, one of the four Candidate Earth Explorers in 1999.

Mission - Earth Explorers

Swarm

Swarm is dedicated to creating a highly detailed survey of Earth’s geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution as well as the electric field in the atmosphere using a constellation of three identical satellites.

Document - Technical Note

Study of a method to de-alias winds from ERS-1 data

Document - General Reference

SPECTRA-Surface-Processes-and-Ecosystem-Changes-Through-Response-Analysis.pdf

This report describes the SPECTRA mission, one of the candidate Earth Explorers in the second cycle in 2001.

Document - Proceedings

Second-EPS-MetOp-RAO-Workshop.pdf

Proceedings of the 2nd EPS/MetOp RAO Workshop held from 20-22 May 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.

Activity - Quality

SCIRoCCo

The SCIRoCCo project is an interdisciplinary cooperation of scatterometry experts aimed at promoting the continuing exploitation of ESA's unique 20 years' worth of ERS Scatterometer data.

News - Success Stories

Satellites track the health of the ozone layer

ESA’s Earth observation activities are contributing to international efforts to monitor and preserve the layer of stratospheric ozone that blankets the planet.

Document - Product Readme Note

Readme file for GOME Level 2 version 5 products

Readme file for ERS GOME Level 2 version 5 products