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page last modified:
June 2010
     

Tropospheric CH2O columns are derived from GOME and SCIAMACHY observations based on slant column retrievals with the DOAS technique combined with and radiative transfer and chemical-transport model results.

Archive

GOME-2: Images and data (version 1.2):
individual days  |  global monthly mean
 
SCIAMACHY:      Images and data (version 1.2):
individual days  |  global monthly mean
 
GOME: Images and data (version 1.2):
individual days  |  global monthly mean
 

Citation

When the data is used in scientific publications, please refer to the following publication:

Twelve Years of Global Observation of Formaldehyde in the Troposphere Using GOME and SCIAMACHY Sensors, I. De Smedt, J.-F. Müller, T. Stavrakou, R. van der A, H. Eskes, and M. Van Roozendael, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 4947-4963, 2008

 

Documentation

  • Product format description for GOME, SCIAMACHY and GOME-2.

  • Formaldehyde product specification

  • De Smedt, I., T. Stavrakou, J.-F. Müller, R. J. van der A, and M. Van Roozendael (2010), Trend detection in satellite observations of formaldehyde tropospheric columns, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L18808, doi:10.1029/2010GL044245. (PDF)

  • H2CO columns retrieved from GOME-2: First scientific results and progress towards the development of an operational product, Isabelle De Smedt, Jenny Stavrakou, Jean-François Müller, Nan Hao, Pieter Valks, Diego Loyola, Michel Van Roozendael, proceedings of the EUTMETSAT conference, 2009 (PDF)

  • Twelve Years of Global Observation of Formaldehyde in the Troposphere Using GOME and SCIAMACHY Sensors, I. De Smedt, J.-F. Müller, T. Stavrakou, R. van der A, H. Eskes, and M. Van Roozendael, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 4947-4963, 2008 (PDF)

  • Proceedings paper about the formaldehyde algorithm presented on the ENVISAT 2007 symposium.

 

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