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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
Space data help to unravel the complexities of Earth’s atmosphere
As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify, scientists are using ESA’s Earth observation archives to investigate atmospheric processes and their influences on the planet’s changing environment.
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Event - Conference
Event - Conference
Atmospheric Science Conference 2006
The 2006 conference was dedicated the theme atmosphere to provide scientists and data users with the opportunity to present first-hand and up-to-date results from their ongoing research activities ESA Mission instruments.
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Data - Data Description
Data - Data Description
SciSat-1: ACE-FTS and MAESTRO
SCISAT-1 data aim at monitoring and analysing the chemical processes that control the distribution of ozone in the upper troposphere and stratos...
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Document - Technical Note
Document - Technical Note
ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - File format description for ACE-FTS level 2 data version 2-2 ASCII format
The user is strongly encouraged to read the README files (produced by Chris Boone for each version of the ACE-FTS retrievals and reproduced in this document) and the retrievals description paper (C. D. Boone et al., "Retrievals for the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer", Appl. Opt., 44(33) 7218-7231 (2005) which is available from http://www.ace.uwaterloo.ca/data) for more information on the ACE-FTS retrievals.
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Document - Product Specifications
Document - Product Specifications
ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - File format description for ACE-Imager level 2 data ---
A reference document containing information regarding Scisat/ACE's instrument.
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Document - Product Specifications
Document - Product Specifications
ACE-FTS Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment- File format description for ACE-FTS level 2 data ---
A reference document containing information regarding Scisat/ACE's FTS instrument.
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Mission - Third Party Missions
Mission - Third Party Missions
SCISAT-1
SCISAT-1 is designed to make observations of Earth's atmosphere and its main instruments are an optical Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and an ultraviolet spectrophotometer.
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Document - Product Readme Note
Document - Product Readme Note
Atmospheric-Chemistry-Experiment-ACE-Mission-Overview.pdf
This paper was published in the GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, Vol.32 (L15S01, doi:10.1029/2005GL022386, 2005) and presents an overview of the Canadian mission SCISAT-1 (also known as the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment ACE) and some of its first scientific results.
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Document - General Reference
Document - General Reference
BIOMASS-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-forest-biomass.pdf
The objective of the BIOMASS Mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass by reducing the uncertainty in the calculation of carbon stock and fluxes associated with the terrestrial biosphere.
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Document - User Guide
Document - User Guide
Third Party Missions, Cat-1 Data Availability
This brochure gives a quick overview on the availability of the Third Party Missions IRS-P3, JERS-1, NIMBUS, Proba, Landsat, KOMPSAT-1, SCISAT-1, Terra/Aqua, NOAA, QSCAT, OrbView, SPOT-1,-2,-3,-4, ALOS.
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Document - Proceedings
Document - Proceedings
Advances-in-Atmospheric-Science-and-Applications.pdf
Proceedings in Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications held in 18-22 June 2012 in Bruges, Belgium.
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Document - General Reference
Document - General Reference
CoReH2O-Report-for-Mission-Selection-An-Earth-Explorer-to-observe-snow-and-ice.pdf
This report describes the CoReH2O (Cold Regions Hydrology high-resolution Observatory) mission, which was selected for feasibility study in the third cycle of Earth Explorers.
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Document - Product Readme Note
Document - Product Readme Note
Retrievals-for-the-Atmospheric-Chemistry-Experiment-Fourier-Transform-Spectrometer.pdf
This paper describes the approach developed for the retrieval of atmospheric temperature and pressure from the troposphere to the lower thermosphere as well as the strategy for retrievals of volume-mixing ratio profiles of atmospheric species.