TROPOMI/S5P Total Column Water Vapor validation against AERONET ground-based measurements
Water vapor plays an important role in the greenhouse effect, rendering it an atmospheric constituent that requires continuous and global monitoring by different types of remote sensing instruments. The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument Sentinel-5 Precursor (TROPOMI/S5P) Total Column Water Vapor (T...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00064252 2023-05-15T13:06:54+02:00 TROPOMI/S5P Total Column Water Vapor validation against AERONET ground-based measurements Garane, Katerina Chan, Ka Lok Koukouli, Maria-Elissavet Loyola, Diego Balis, Dimitris 2023-01 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-57-2023 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00064252 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00063082/amt-16-57-2023.pdf https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/16/57/2023/amt-16-57-2023.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications Atmospheric Measurement Techniques -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2505596 -- http://www.atmospheric-measurement-techniques.net/ -- 1867-8548 https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-57-2023 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00064252 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00063082/amt-16-57-2023.pdf https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/16/57/2023/amt-16-57-2023.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2023 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-57-2023 2023-01-09T00:13:12Z Water vapor plays an important role in the greenhouse effect, rendering it an atmospheric constituent that requires continuous and global monitoring by different types of remote sensing instruments. The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument Sentinel-5 Precursor (TROPOMI/S5P) Total Column Water Vapor (TCWV) is a new product retrieved from the visible blue spectral range (435–455 nm), using an algorithm that was originally developed for the GOME-2/MetOp sensors. For the purposes of this work, 2.5 years of continuous satellite observations at high spatial resolution are validated against co-located (in space and in time) precipitable water Level 2.0 (quality-assured) ground-based measurements from the NASA AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork). The network uses Cimel Sun photometers located at approximately 1300 stations globally to monitor precipitable water among other products. Based on data availability, 369 of the stations were used in this study. The two datasets, satellite- and ground-based, were co-located, and the relative differences of the comparisons were calculated and statistically analyzed. The Pearson correlation coefficient of the two products is found to be 0.91, and the mean bias of the overall relative percentage differences is of the order of −2.7 %. For the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes (30–60∘ N), where the density of the ground-based stations is high, the mean relative bias was found to be −1.8 %, while in the tropics (±15∘) the TROPOMI TCWV product has a relative dry bias of up to −10 %. The effect of various algorithm and geophysical parameters, such as air mass factor, solar zenith angle, clouds and albedo, is also presented and discussed. It was found that the cloud properties affect the validation results, leading the TCWV to a dry bias of −20 % for low cloud heights (cloud top pressure (CTP) >800 hPa). Moreover, cloud albedo introduces a wet bias of 15 % when it is below 0.3 and a dry bias up to −25 % when the clouds are more reflective. Overall, the TROPOMI/S5P TCWV product, on a ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Aerosol Robotic Network Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 16 1 57 74 |
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Water vapor plays an important role in the greenhouse effect, rendering it an atmospheric constituent that requires continuous and global monitoring by different types of remote sensing instruments. The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument Sentinel-5 Precursor (TROPOMI/S5P) Total Column Water Vapor (TCWV) is a new product retrieved from the visible blue spectral range (435–455 nm), using an algorithm that was originally developed for the GOME-2/MetOp sensors. For the purposes of this work, 2.5 years of continuous satellite observations at high spatial resolution are validated against co-located (in space and in time) precipitable water Level 2.0 (quality-assured) ground-based measurements from the NASA AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork). The network uses Cimel Sun photometers located at approximately 1300 stations globally to monitor precipitable water among other products. Based on data availability, 369 of the stations were used in this study. The two datasets, satellite- and ground-based, were co-located, and the relative differences of the comparisons were calculated and statistically analyzed. The Pearson correlation coefficient of the two products is found to be 0.91, and the mean bias of the overall relative percentage differences is of the order of −2.7 %. For the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes (30–60∘ N), where the density of the ground-based stations is high, the mean relative bias was found to be −1.8 %, while in the tropics (±15∘) the TROPOMI TCWV product has a relative dry bias of up to −10 %. The effect of various algorithm and geophysical parameters, such as air mass factor, solar zenith angle, clouds and albedo, is also presented and discussed. It was found that the cloud properties affect the validation results, leading the TCWV to a dry bias of −20 % for low cloud heights (cloud top pressure (CTP) >800 hPa). Moreover, cloud albedo introduces a wet bias of 15 % when it is below 0.3 and a dry bias up to −25 % when the clouds are more reflective. Overall, the TROPOMI/S5P TCWV product, on a ... |
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TROPOMI/S5P Total Column Water Vapor validation against AERONET ground-based measurements |
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TROPOMI/S5P Total Column Water Vapor validation against AERONET ground-based measurements |
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TROPOMI/S5P Total Column Water Vapor validation against AERONET ground-based measurements |
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TROPOMI/S5P Total Column Water Vapor validation against AERONET ground-based measurements |
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TROPOMI/S5P Total Column Water Vapor validation against AERONET ground-based measurements |
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tropomi/s5p total column water vapor validation against aeronet ground-based measurements |
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