Global height-resolved methane retrievals from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) on MetOp

Siddans, Richard; Knappett, Diane; Kerridge, Brian; Waterfall, Alison; Hurley, Jane; Latter, Barry; Boesch, Hartmut; Parker, Robert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4135-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 11

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 4135–4164, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4135-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 4135–4164, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4135-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 11

Research article 06 Nov 2017

Research article | 06 Nov 2017

Global height-resolved methane retrievals from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) on MetOp

Richard Siddans et al.

Data sets

STFC RAL methane retrievals from IASI on board MetOp-A, version 1.0 R. Siddans, D. Knappett, B. Kerridge, B. Latter, A. Waterfall, J. Hurley, and J. Walker https://doi.org/10.5285/B6A84C73-89F3-48EC-AEE3-592FEF634E9B

Short summary

This paper describes an algorithm to infer the global atmospheric distribution of the greenhouse gas methane, from measurements made by the infrared, nadir-viewing spectrometer IASI, on board the MetOp polar orbiting satellites. The algorithm has been applied to 9 years of data. Results are presented and validated by comparison to independent measurements.