GOME Instrument

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.

Instrument Summary

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

Performance Summary

Resolution
Vertical: 5 km (for O3), Horizontal: 40 x 40 km to 40 x 320 km
Swath
120 - 960 km
Accuracy
Waveband
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 Missions

ERS-2 - European Remote Sensing satellite - 2 (1995 - 2011)

Instrument Measurements