New advanced polarization measurements of GOME-2 onboard the METOP satellites

Joerg Callies; Enrico Corpaccioli; Michael Eisinger; Alain Lefebvre; Rosemary Munro; Abelardo Perez-Albinana

doi:10.1117/12.451500

24 September 2002 New advanced polarization measurements of GOME-2 onboard the Metop satellites

Joerg Callies, Enrico Corpaccioli, Michael Eisinger, Alain Lefebvre, Rosemary Munro, Abelardo Perez-Albinana

Proceedings Volume 4814, Earth Observing Systems VII; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.451500
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2002, Seattle, WA, United States

Abstract

Since 1995 the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) is measuring ozone (total column and profile), nitrogen dioxide and other minor trace gases on-board of the European Space Agency (ESA) ERS-2 satellite. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and ESA decided to fly an advanced GOME-2 instrument on the METOP satellites. The GOME-2 measurements will provide the input for the ozone data record in the timeframe 2005 to 2020 provided by the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS). The radiometric calibration of the polarisation sensitive GOME-2 instrument is significantly improved by the simultaneous measurement of s- and p -polarised light at moderate resolution and high temporal resolution. The Polarisation Monitoring Device (PMD) measures the spectral range between 312 and 790 nm in 15 narrow bands. The ground pixel size in the 960 km swath is 40 x 5km². The paper describes in detail the polarisation measurement devices and their technical capabilities.

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Joerg Callies, Enrico Corpaccioli, Michael Eisinger, Alain Lefebvre, Rosemary Munro, and Abelardo Perez-Albinana "New advanced polarization measurements of GOME-2 onboard the Metop satellites", Proc. SPIE 4814, Earth Observing Systems VII, (24 September 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.451500

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