SCIAMACHY Products

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all H₂O products
product	made by	order	period	maturenessdocumentation, availability and content click on 'i' for explanation and criteria i				valvalidation status, click on 'i' for explanation i
product	made by	order	period	ADAlgorithm Document	PSDProduct Specification Document	AvData Availability	CProduct Content	valvalidation status, click on 'i' for explanation i
H2O vertical column	IFE/IUP Bremen		Jan 2003 to now					v0.9.1:validated v1.0: p. valid.
	MPI Mainz/IUP Heidelberg
	SRON		2003 to 2007
HDO/H2O ratio	SRON/JPL		2003 to 2005

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SCIAMACHY H2O validation literature:

Verification of SCIAMACHY level 1 data by AMC-DOAS water vapour retrieval
S. Mieruch, S. Noël, H. Bovensmann and J.P. Burrows

Abstract/Article:	Proceedings of the Third Workshop on the Atmospheric Chemistry Validation of ENVISAT (ACVE-3), 4-7 Dec. 2006, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, ESA Publications Division Special Publication SP-642 (CD), 2006.
Method:	V6.0 with V5.0 and different solar reference spectra (ASM diffuser vs. ESM diffuser)

GOME and SCIAMACHY Global Water Vapour Columns
S. Noël, S. Mieruch, M. Buchwitz, H. Bovensmann, and J. P. Burrows

Abstract/Article:	"Proc. of the First ‘Atmospheric Science Conference’, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy 8 – 12 May 2006 (ESA SP-628, July 2006)"
Method:	GOME

A Combined GOME and SCIAMACHY Global Water Vapour Data Set
S. Noël, S. Mieruch, H. Bovensmann & J.P. Burrows

Abstract/Article:	Proc. ‘Envisat Symposium 2007’, Montreux, Switzerland 23–27 April 2007 (ESA SP-636, July 2007)
Method:	Intercomparison with GOME and SSM/I

Dynamic Processes Governing Lower-Tropospheric HDO/H2O Ratios as Observed from Space and Ground
C. Frankenberg, K. Yoshimura, T. Warneke, I. Aben, A. Butz, N. Deutscher, D. Griffith, F. Hase, J. Notholt, M. Schneider, H. Schrijver, T. Rockmann

Abstract/Article: Science, 325, 1374, 2009, DOI: 10.1126/science.1173791

Water vapour total columns from SCIAMACHY spectra in the 2.36um window
H. Schrijver, A. M. S. Gloudemans, C. Frankenberg, I. Aben

Abstract/Article:	Atmos. Meas. Tech., 2, 561-571, 2009
Method:	Retrieved water vapour total vertical columns are compared with spatially and temporally collocated values from the ECMWF data

Comparison of monthly means of global total column water vapor retrieved from independent satellite observations
S. Mieruch, M. Schröder, S. Noël, J. Schulz

Abstract/Article:	J. Geophys. Res., vol 115, D23310, doi:10.1029/2010JD013946, 2010
Method:	GOME/SCIAMACHY total column water vapour monthly mean measurements are compared with the passive microwave observations from SSM/I for the period of 1996 to 2005