
Operators: |
ESA |
Date of Launch: |
ERS-1 - 17 July 1991 ERS-2 - 21 April 1995 |
Mission Status: |
ERS-1 ended on March 2000 and ERS-2 September 2011 |
Orbit Height: |
782 to 785 km |
Orbit type: |
Near-circular, polar, Sun-synchronous |
Swath Width: |
5 km |
(GOME_Evl_ClimateProd_TCWV)

The GOME Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) Climate product was generated by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) within the ESA GOME-Evolution project. It is a Level 3 type product containing homogenized time-series of the global distribution of TCWV spanning over more than two decades (1995-2015).
The data is provided as single netCDF file, containing monthly mean TCWV (units kg/m2) with 1-degree resolution, and is based on measurements from the satellite instruments ERS-2 GOME, Envisat SCIAMACHY, and MetOp-A GOME-2. Details are available in the paper by Beirle et al, 2018,.
Please also consult the GOME TCWV Product Quality Readme file before using the data.
See related news of 06 December 2018.
Spatial coverage: |
90 N, 90 S, 180 W, 180 E |
Temporal coverage: | 1995-07 - 2015-12 |
This dataset is available as single netCDF file (224 MB) via FTP upon registration.
Details on the GOME datasets currently distributed can be found in the ERS-2 GOME Products Availability Table.
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