The Atmospheric Toolbox is a core component of the Atmosphere Virtual Lab (AVL).

The main elements of the toolbox are CODA and HARP. These provide a harmonised interface for reading and pre-processing data from a wide range of atmospheric data products. Important features are the capability to create gridded Level 3 data and perform inter-comparisons in support of validation. The software consists of command line tools and interfaces for e.g. Python, C, MATLAB, and IDL. Data supported by the toolbox includes products from satellite instruments such as Tropomi (Sentinel-5P), EarthCARE, ALADIN (Aeolus), GOME-2 and IASI (MetOp), and OMI (Aura), but also ground based and model data.

The toolbox comes with data visualisation capabilities through the AVL plotting routines for use within Jupyter notebooks and a standalone desktop application called VISAN.

The processing algorithms within the toolbox consist of the trace gas retrieval application QDOAS.

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