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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
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Full Name
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
ESA
Maturity
Instrument Type
Atmospheric chemistry
Geometry
Instrument Technology
High-resolution nadir-scanning SW spectrometer
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
Measurements and Applications
Measures concentration of O3, NO, NO2, BrO, H2O, O2/O4, plus aerosols and polar stratospheric clouds, and other gases in special conditions.
Resolution Summary
Vertical: 5 km (for O3), Horizontal: 40 x 40 km to 40 x 320 km
Swath Summary
120 - 960 km
Accuracy Summary
Waveband Summary
UV-NIR: 0.24 - 0.79 µm (resolution 0.2 - 0.4 nm)
UV (~0.01 µm - ~0.40 µm)
NIR (~0.75 µm - ~1.3 µm)
Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
Category
Parameter
Atmospheric Humidity Fields
Atmospheric specific humidity (LT)
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature
Cloud cover
Ozone
O3 Mole Fraction
Radiation budget
Downwelling (Incoming) solar radiation at TOA
Short-wave Earth surface bi-directional reflectance
Trace gases (excluding ozone)
NO2 Mole Fraction
BrO (column/profile)
SO2 Mole Fraction
OClO (column/profile)
Thematic Links
Global Climate Observing System Essential Climate Variables (GCOS ECVs)
ECV
Description
Product(s)
ECV Inventory 3.0 Record(s)
Cloud Properties
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Earth Radiation Budget
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Ozone
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Record ID: 11495
Record ID: 10911
Multi Sensor Reanalysis of total ozone, ...
Water Vapour (upper air)
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Instrument Missions
ERS-2 - European Remote Sensing satellite - 2 (1995 - 2011)
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