THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION, INSTRUMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS

Profiles of ozone, water vapour, NO2, OCIO, aerosols.

Full Name

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment-II

Status

No longer operational

Instrument Agencies

NASA, ROSKOSMOS

Maturity

Instrument Type

Atmospheric chemistry

Geometry

Limb-scanning

Instrument Technology

Limb-scanning SW spectrometer

Sampling

Sounding

Data Access

Data Format

Resolution

0.5 km

Swath

Accuracy

Waveband

7 channels, UV - NIR: 0.385 - 1.02 µm

UV (~0.01 µm - ~0.40 µm)
VIS (~0.40 µm - ~0.75 µm)
NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm)

NIMBUS-7 - NIMBUS-7 (1978 - 1994)

ERBS - Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (1984 - 2005)

*ECV*	*Description*	*Product(s)*	*ECV Inventory 3.0 Record(s)*
Aerosols properties	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Ozone	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Temperature (upper-air)	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records
Water Vapour (upper air)	click here	click here	search ECV Inventory records

Category	Parameter
Aerosols	Aerosol Extinction / Backscatter (column/profile)
	Aerosol absorption optical depth (column/profile)
Atmospheric Humidity Fields	Atmospheric specific humidity (LT)
Atmospheric Temperature Fields	Atmospheric temperature (LT)
Atmospheric Winds	Wind profile (vertical)
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	Cloud top height
Ozone	O3 Mole Fraction
Trace gases (excluding ozone)	NO2 Mole Fraction
	BrO (LT)