2. Reference Documents

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2. Reference Documents

The following documents have been used to compile the information in this guide. Some of them are referenced within the text, others are provided here for further reading.

In addition, a selection of regularly updated GOME-2 key documents can be found on the EUMETSAT website under the EXTRANET section, under EPS CalVal > GOME CalVal > Publications & Documents. The EXTRANET pages are under development, and during the current CalVal phase external users will require a logon name and password to gain access. Please contact the EUMETSAT Helpdesk.

2.1 EPS programme documents

[RD1] EPS End User Requirements Document EUM.EPS.MIS.REQ.93.001
[RD2] EPS Core Ground Segment Requirements Documents EPS.CGS.REQ.95327
[RD3] EPS Generic Product Format Specification EPS.GGS.SPE.96167
[RD4] MetOp GOME-2 Instrument Operation Manual MO-MA-ESA-GO-0304
[RD5] MetOp GOME-2 In-Flight Calibration and Characterisation Plan MO-PL-ESA-GO-0188
[RD6] MetOp GOME-2 In-Orbit Verification Plan MO-PL-ESA-GO-0506
[RD7] GOME-2 Level 1 Product Generation Specification EPS.SYS.SPE.990011
[RD8] GOME-2 Level 1 Product Format Specification EPS.MIS.SPE.97232
[RD9] GOME-2 Science Data Packet Definition MO-DS-LAB-GO-0006
[RD10] GOME-2 Requirements Specification MO-RS-ESA-GO-0071
[RD11]
GOME-2 Calibration Plan
MO-PL-TPD-GO-0004
[RD12] GOME-2 Calibration Error Budget MO-RS-TPD-GO-0016
[RD13] GOME-2 Calibration: Data analysis procedures MO-RS-TPD-GO-0027
[RD14] GOME-2 FM3 Calibration: Radiometric Calibration MO-TR-TPD-GO-0098
[RD15] GOME-2 FM3 Calibration: Instrument Performance Testing MO-TR-TPD-GO-0094
[RD16] GOME-2 FM3 Calibration: Spectral Stray Light MO-TR-TPD-GO-0096
[RD17] GOME-2 FM3 Slit Function Test Report MO-TR-TPD-GO-0101
[RD18] GOME2 Calibration: Key Data file structure specification MO-RS-TPD-GO-0025
[RD19] GOME-2 Instrument Calibration: Key Data status list MO-LI-TPD-GP-0026
[RD20] GOME-201 Calibration Results Review Board Report MO-RP-ESA-GP-0360
[RD21] GOME-202 Calibration Results Review Board Report MO-RP-ESA-GP-0432
[RD22] GOME-203 Calibration Results Review Board Report MO-RP-ESA-GP-0499
[RD23] EPS/MetOp Research Announcement of Opportunity EUM/STG/42/03/DOC/06
[RD24] U-MARF LEO Format Descriptions EUM/OPS/USR/06/1855
[RD25] EPS Product file naming for EUMETCast EUM/OPS-EPS-TEN/07/0012
[RD26] Analysis of GOME-2, Slit function Measurements Final Report Eumetsat Contract No. EUM/CO/04/1298/RM
[RD27] Analysis of GOME-2, Slit function Measurements, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document Eumetsat Contract No. EUM/CO/04/1298/RM

 

 

 

Future versions of this document will be available on the EUMETSAT UMARF webpages.

See www.eumetsat.int for more information on the project.

2.2 SAF documents

[O3M1]
Ozone SAF User Requirements Document
SAF/O3/RQ/URD
[O3M2] Ozone SAF Science Plan SAF/O3/FMI/ALG/PL
[O3M3]
Ozone SAF Scientific Prototyping Report
SAF/O3/FMI/ALG/REP
[O3M4]
Ozone SAF Output Product Format Document for OOP and ARS
SAF/O3M/KNMI/OPF/003
[O3M5]
Ozone SAF Output Product Format for GOME-2 Total Column Densities of Ozone and Minor Trace Gases
SAF/O3M/DLR/OPF/001
[O3M6] Ozone SAF NUV Output Product Format SAF/O3M/DMI/OPF/002
[O3M7] Ozone SAF Output Product Format Document for OUV SAF/O3M/FMI/OPF/002

 

2.3 Papers, reports and other technical documentation

[SCD1]
GOME-2 - MetOp's Second Generation Sensor for Operational Ozone Monitoring
Callies, J., E. Corpaccioli, M. Eisinger, A. Hahne and A. Lefebvre
ESA Bulletin, No. 102, May 2000
[SCD2] GOME-2 Error Assessment Study Final Report EUM Contract EUM/CO/01/901/DK
[SCD3] GOME-2 Error Assessment Study Phase V Final Report EUM Contract EUM/CO/01/901/DK
[SCD4]
Error Analysis of Polarisation Measurements by GOME
I. Aben, M.R. Dobber, D.M. Stam and P. Stammes
GOME Geophysical Validation Campaign, Final results Workshop Proceedings, ESA WPP-108, 51-59, May 1996
[SCD5]
Retrieval of Ozone Profiles from GOME and SCIAMACHY (GOME O3 Profiling Working Group)
van Oss, R. and R. van der A
Proceedings of the 2004 ERS & ENVISAT Symposium, 6 - 10 September, Salzburg, Austria, in press, 2004  
[SCD6] A linearized discrete ordinate radiative transfer model for atmospheric remote sensing retrieval Spurr, R.J.D., T.P. Kurosu and K.V. Chance
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer,
68:689-735, 2001
[SCD7] Linearized Radiative Transfer Theory: A General Discrete Ordinate Approach to the Calculation of Radiances and Analytic Weighting Functions, with Application to Atmospheric Remote Sensing Spurr, R.J.D.
Ph.D. Thesis., Technical University of Eindhoven, 2001
[SCD8] Global distribution of UV-absorbing aerosols from Nimbus 7/TOMS data Herman, J.R., P.K. Bhartia, O. Torres, C. Hsu, C. Seftor, E. Celarier
J. Geophys. Res., 102, D14, 16, 911-16, 922, 1997
[SCD9] Environmental characterization of global sources of atmospheric soil dust identified with the Nimbus 7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Absorbing Aerosol Index Product Prospero, J.M, P. Ginoux, O. Torres, S.E. Nicholson and T.E. Gill
Reviews of Geophysics, Vol. 40, No. 1 2002
[SCD10] ERS-2 GOME GDP 3.0 Implementation and Delta Validation Lambert, J-C., D.S. Balis, C. Fayt, P. Gerard, J.F. Gleason, J. Granville, G. Hansen, G. Labow, D. Loyola, V. Soebijanta, W. Thomas, J.H.G. van Geffen, R.F. van Oss, M. Van Roozendael, C. Zehner and C.S. Zerefos
ERSE-DTEX-EOAD-TN-02-0006
Also available from: http://earth.esrin.esa.it/pub/ESA_DOC/GOME/
gdp3/gdp3.pdf
[SCD11] Report of the WMO meeting of experts on UV-B measurements, data quality and standardization of UV-indices WMO, Global Atmosphere Watch Report no. 95, 1994
[SCD12] UVSPEC: A program package for calculation of diffuse and direct UV and visible intensities and fluxes Kylling, A.
(available by anonymous ftp to kaja.gi.alaska.edu, cd pub/arve)
[SCD13] A numerically stable algorithm for discrete ordinate method radiative transfer in multiple scattering and emitting layered media Stamnes K, S.C. Tsay, W. Wiscombe and K. Jayaweera
Applied Optics, 27, 2502-2509, 1988
[SCD14] A reference action spectrum for ultraviolet induced erythema in human skin McKinlay, A.F. and B.L. Diffey
CIE Journal, No. 6, Vol. 1, 17-22, 1987
[SCD15] Solar ultraviolet radiation and the growth and development of higher plants Caldwell, M.M.
In Photophysiology Volume 6, ed. A.C. Giese, Academic Press, New York, 131-177, 1971
[SCD16] The Wavelengths in Sunlight Effective in Producing Skin Cancer: A Theoretical Analysis Setlow, R.B.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 71, 9, 3363-3366, 1974
[SCD17] Estimate of the wavelength dependency of ultraviolet carcinogenesis in humans and its relevance to the risk assessment of a stratospheric ozone depletion De Gruijl, F.R. and J.C. Van der Leun
Health Physics, 67, 4, 319-324, 1994
[SCD18] A new approach to estimate the albedo for snow-covered surface in satellite-UV method Arola A., J. Kaurola, L. Koskinen, A. Tanskanen, T. Tikkanen, P. Taalas, J.R. Herman, N. Krotkov and V. Fioletov
J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D17), 4531, 2003
[SCD19] Earth surface reflectivity climatology at 340-380 nm from TOMS data Herman, J.R. and E. Celarier
J. Geophys. Res., 102, 28, 003-011 1997
[SCD20] GOME-2 Polarisation Study - Phase C/D Final Report Hartmann, H.W., C.P. Tanzi, J.M. Krijger and I. Aben
RP-GOME2-003SR, SRON, Utrecht, the Netherlands
[SCD21] A fast method for retrieval of cloud parameters using oxygen A-Band measurements from GOME R.B.A. Koelemeijer, P. Stammes, J.W. Hovenier and J.F. de Haan
J. Geophys. Res., Vol 106, 3475-3490, 2001
[SCD22] Global distributions of effective cloud fraction and cloud top pressure derived from oxygen A-band spectra measured by the Global Ozone Monitoring Instrument: Comparison to ISCCP data R.B.A. Koelemeijer, P. Stammes, J.W. Hovenier and J.F. de Haan
J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 107 D12, 2002
[SCD23] Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere Brasseur, G. and S. Solomon
2nd edition, D. Riedel Publishing Company, pp 100, 1986
[SCD24] Allen's Astrophysical Quantities Allen, C.W.
4th edition, Springer Verlag, 2000
[SCD25] Operations Handbook - Ozone Observations with a Dobson Spectrophotometer Komhyr, W.D.
WMO Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project, Report No. 6, 1980
[SCD26] Review of the Dobson Spectrophotometer and Its Accuracy Basher, R.E.
WMO Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project, Report No. 13, December 1982
[SCD27] The automated Brewer spectrophotometer Kerr, J.B., C.T. McElroy, D.I. Wardle, R.A. Olafson and W.F.J. Evans
Proc. of the Quadrennial Ozone Symposium, ed. C.S. Zerefos and A. Ghazi, D.Reidel Publ. Co., pp. 611-614, 1984
[SCD28] Third WMO intercomparison of the ozonesondes used in the Global Ozone Observing System, Vanscoy, Canada 13-24 May 1991 WMO
Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project Report No. 27, 58 pp., Geneva, 1991
[SCD29] The Oxford Kew ozonesonde Brewer, A. and J. Milford
Proc. Roy. Soc. London, Ser. A, 256, 470, 1960
[SCD30] Development of an ECC-Ozonesonde Komhyr, W.D.
NOAA Techn. Rep. ERL 200-APCL 18ARL-149, 1971
[SCD31] On various methods of measuring the vertical distribution of atmospheric ozone (III) - Carbon iodine type chemical ozonesonde Kobayashi, J. and Y. Toyama
Pap. Met. Geophys., 17, 113-126, 1966
[SCD32] Assessment of Trends in the Vertical Distribution of Ozone Harris, N., R. Hudson and C. Phillips
SPARC Report No. 1,
WMO Ozone Research and Monitoring Project Report No. 43, 1998
[SCD33] An intercomparison of ground-based UV-visible sensors of ozone and NO2 Vaughan, G., H.K. Roscoe, L.M. Bartlett, F.M. O'Connor; A. Sarkissian; M. Van Roozendael; J.-C. Lambert, P.C. Simon, K. Karlsen, B.A. Kåastad Høiskar, D.J. Fish, R.L. Jones, R.A. Freshwater, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, S.B. Andersen, D.G. Drew, P.A. Hughes, D. Moore, J. Mellqvist, E. Hegels, T. Klupfel, F. Erle, K. Pfeilsticker, U. Platt
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 102, No. D1, p. 1411, 1997
[SCD34] Ground-based FTIR measurements with high temporal resolution Bell, W., C. Paton Walsh, P.T. Woods, T.D. Gardiner, M.P. Chipperfield and A.M. Lee
J. Atmos. Chem., 30, 131-140, 1998
[SCD35] Remote sensing by Fourier Transform Spectrometry Beer, R.
Wiley, New York, USA, 1992
[SCD36] Lidar measurements of ozone vertical profiles Mégie, G., G. Ancellet, J. Pelon
Appl. Opt., 24, 3454-3453, 1985
[SCD37] Error analysis for the ground-based microwave ozone measurements during STOIC Connor, B.J., A. Parrish, J.-J. Tsou and M.P. McCormick
J. Geophys. Res., 100(D5), 9283-9221, 1995
[SCD38] Ground-based microwave monitoring of stratospheric ozone Parrish, A., B.J. Connor, J.J. Tsou, I.S. McDermid and W.P. Chu
J. Geophys. Res., 97(D2), 2541-2546, 1992
[SCD39] NOAA KLM User's Guide www2.ncdc.noaa.gov/docs/klm