The GOME ozone monitoring instrument

• General introduction
• Monitoring of ozone and other species
• Example: retrieval of the ozone column from the spectra
• ERS orbit and GOME's global coverage
• Data delivery

Data delivery

To this end, a GOME Fast Delivery Service has been set up at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), with financial support of the European Space Agency Research Institute (ESA-ESRIN). The goal of this Fast Delivery Service is to provide total ozone columns, vertical ozone profiles, assimilated ozone fields, ozone field and UV radiation forecasts, and cloud information, to users via the World Wide Web in near real time. This service uses a part of the spectral data of each measurement, also used by ESA to monitor the instrument's status and health.

The official release of GOME products, based on the full spectral date and made with the GDP (GOME Data Processor) of the ESA Processing and Archiving Facility at DLR (Deutches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, are released on CD-ROMs and via the Internet between two weeks and two months after observation. Note that a temporary GDP processor is stationed at the Kiruna (one of the four ground stations used for ERS-2 data) provides DLR near real time data, but only for 10 out of 14 orbits.
 

Subjects:

• General introduction
• Monitoring of ozone and other species
• Example: retrieval of the ozone column from the spectra
• ERS orbit and GOME's global coverage
• Data delivery

• ESA-ESRIN
• DLR
• University of Bremen