In-flight calibration results of the TROPOMI payload on board  the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite

Ludewig, Antje; Kleipool, Quintus; Bartstra, Rolf; Landzaat, Robin; Leloux, Jonatan; Loots, Erwin; Meijering, Peter; van der Plas, Emiel; Rozemeijer, Nico; Vonk, Frank; Veefkind, Pepijn

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3561-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

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03 Jul 2020

Research article |

| 03 Jul 2020

In-flight calibration results of the TROPOMI payload on board the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite

Antje Ludewig, Quintus Kleipool, Rolf Bartstra, Robin Landzaat, Jonatan Leloux, Erwin Loots, Peter Meijering, Emiel van der Plas, Nico Rozemeijer, Frank Vonk, and Pepijn Veefkind

Data sets

Sentinel-5P Pre-Operations Data Hub ESA https://s5phub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home

TROPOMI data products: Level 1 KNMI http://www.tropomi.eu/data-products/level-1

Short summary

After the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite launch on 13 October 2017, its single payload, the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), was tested and calibrated extensively. Changes due to ageing of the instrument and new insights have led to updates to the L1b processor and its calibration key data, leading to improvements of the data quality. Regularly scheduled calibration measurements are used in the nominal operations phase (since 30 April 2018) to correct instrument degradation.