SCIAMACHY operational products

SCIAMACHY operational products are distributed by ESA via D-PAC in Oberpfaffenhofen. Access to this data can be obtained by the Principal Investigators of the Envisat-AO approved proposals, after accepting the terms and conditions for using Envisat data, which you can find on ESA's EO Principipal Investigator Portal (click 'ESA Data Policy'). These terms and conditions include among others: terms on intellectual property rights, conditions for publication, reporting conditions, terms on onward distribution of data, etc.

Furthermore, ESA provides one copy of the level 0 and the ESA generated products at no charge to instrument providers DLR and NIVR jointly. NIVR shares its data rights with BIRA-IASB as co-funding agency. DLR and NIVR will distribute data to selected national research groups. These research groups will be listed in the Flight Operations and Data Plan (FODP). The terms and conditions for the use of this data will be based on the above mentioned terms and conditions.

After the commissioning phase SCIAMACHY data will be available for other research groups against reproduction costs.

SCIAMACHY scientific products

Several institutes develop algorithms to retrieve products from SCIAMACHY spectra. Some of these institutes are willing to make preliminary scientific products available for validation purposes. The goal is to improve the operational product development by finding algorithm parameters responsible for specific error behaviour. Details on access to and availability of scientific products can be found here.

Other Envisat data

MIPAS and GOMOS data are available for the SCIAMACHY validation groups, provided they have requested these data in their AO proposal. The same applies for other Envisat data (e.g. AATSR). The MIPAS and GOMOS data will be distributed via the User Services Facility at ESRIN.

Ordering of SCIAMACHY operational products

The ordering of Envisat Atmospheric Chemistry (GOMOS, MIPAS, SCIAMACHY) products is detailed in this document (Word, 130 kB).

Validation data

A large amount of data will be collected during the commissioning phase and the main validation phase. These data will be distributed among the validation groups via the NILU data centre NADIR (NILU's Atmospheric Database for Interactive Retrieval).

Use and dissemination of this data is regulated by the SCIAMACHY validation data protocol. All SCIAMACHY validation scientists are urgently requested to sign this protocol before the rehearsal period in October 2000.

Access to the Envisat Cal/Val database at NILU is restricted to those scientists who have signed additionaly the "Protocol for exchange of correlative data for the Envisat Calibration and Validation campaign", send by NILU to all Envisat Cal/Val AO PIs (contact The N. Thanh, NILU, if you didn't receive the latter protocol). Another protocol should be signed for getting access to ECMWF data via the NILU data base.

Last update: 03-12-2008