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  • Event - Workshop

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    GEWEX / ESA DUE GlobVapour Quality Assessment of Water Vapour Data Sets Workshop

    Currently, a missing element is a water vapour product that can be used in a consistent way with the other products.

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    ALADIN

    Aeolus Quality Control Reports on L1B/Instrument, L2A and L2B products are currently available to Aeolus Cal/Val teams and

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Aeolus

    This is currently the only technology that can provide direct wind profile observations in clear air, inside thin clouds

  • News - Data Release news

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    Aeolus data now publicly available

    Following the introduction in June 2019 of a correction of biases related to spectrometer pixels showing elevated dark current

  • News - Operational News

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    A Guide to Aeolus Range Bin Settings

    Current Range Bin Settings Multiple Aeolus Range Bin Settings are active at the same time.

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Aeolus Overview

    Currently, the global distribution of conventional wind profile measurements is not homogenous and mainly located over land

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS Overview

    Mission Background The SMOS mission is a direct response to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS Objectives

    SMOS Science The SMOS mission is a direct response to the current lack of global observations of soil moisture and ocean

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    Envisat Objectives

          x     x Turbidity       x             Wave Characteristics x   x               Near Surface Wind x   x               Current

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Aeolus Data

    Aeolus Quality Control Reports on L1B/Instrument, L2A and L2B products are currently available to Aeolus Cal/Val teams and

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    ALADIN Reports

    quality reports about the public L2B Wind product: Monthly L2B reports Reports for the Aeolus L2A Aerosol/Cloud products are currently

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    MERIS Overview

    Spatial and temporal models of the biosphere are currently being developed to study the mechanics of such complex systems

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    GOMOS Overview

    anti-reflection coated CCD Quantum efficiency 20% at 250 nm to 350 nm, 60% at 500 nm to 675 nm , 20% at 950 nm See above Dark current

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    MERIS Applications

    altimeters, have a remarkable sensitivity to the roughness and height of the ocean surface, enabling the detection of ocean currents

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    ASAR Processor Releases

    August 2009 5.03L03 9 October 2009 5.04 17 September 2010 6.00 16 December 2011 6.02 30 April 2012 6.03 3 July 2015 (current

  • Mission - Heritage Missions

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    ASAR Products Information

    Higher level products (Level 2) can then be derived from L1 products; however, this is currently only done with Wave mode

  • Event - Workshop

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    Understanding the Carbon and Water Cycles using SMOS Data and Models

    main land interactions and their impacts on the Earth system and climate by exploiting SMOS observations; To review the current

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    SMOS product availability

    + NIR + Long     LO + FTT     LO + Electrical Stability     LO + NIR + Long + FTT     LO + Short     LO + Long + Short Current

  • Mission - Earth Explorers

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    Products Information

    For an optimal exploitation of the current SMOS L2 data set V620 consult the read-me-first notes available for V620 soil

  • Event - Workshop

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    SEASAR 2008

    of the workshop were: Wave mode processing algorithms, product validation and assimilation Ocean Wind applications Ocean Current