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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4295-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4295-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
14 Aug 2020
Research article |
| 14 Aug 2020
| 14 Aug 2020
Improved SIFTER v2 algorithm for long-term GOME-2A satellite retrievals of fluorescence with a correction for instrument degradation
Erik van Schaik
Meteorology and Air Quality group, Wageningen University,
Wageningen, 6700 AA, the Netherlands
Maurits L. Kooreman
Satellite Observations Department, Royal Netherlands Meteorological
Institute, De Bilt, 3730 AE, the Netherlands
Piet Stammes
Satellite Observations Department, Royal Netherlands Meteorological
Institute, De Bilt, 3730 AE, the Netherlands
L. Gijsbert Tilstra
Satellite Observations Department, Royal Netherlands Meteorological
Institute, De Bilt, 3730 AE, the Netherlands
Olaf N. E. Tuinder
Satellite Observations Department, Royal Netherlands Meteorological
Institute, De Bilt, 3730 AE, the Netherlands
Abram F. J. Sanders
Satellite Observations Department, Royal Netherlands Meteorological
Institute, De Bilt, 3730 AE, the Netherlands
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen,
Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
EUMETSAT, EUMETSAT-Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany
Willem W. Verstraeten
Meteorology and Air Quality group, Wageningen University,
Wageningen, 6700 AA, the Netherlands
Satellite Observations Department, Royal Netherlands Meteorological
Institute, De Bilt, 3730 AE, the Netherlands
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (KMI), Ringlaan 3, 1180,
Ukkel, Belgium
Rüdiger Lang
EUMETSAT, EUMETSAT-Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany
Alessandra Cacciari
EUMETSAT, EUMETSAT-Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany
Joanna Joiner
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Wouter Peters
Meteorology and Air Quality group, Wageningen University,
Wageningen, 6700 AA, the Netherlands
University of Groningen, Centre for Isotope Research,
Groningen, 9747 AG, the Netherlands
K. Folkert Boersma
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Meteorology and Air Quality group, Wageningen University,
Wageningen, 6700 AA, the Netherlands
Satellite Observations Department, Royal Netherlands Meteorological
Institute, De Bilt, 3730 AE, the Netherlands
Data sets
SIFTER sun-induced vegetation fluorescence data from GOME-2A (Version 2.0) M. L. Kooreman, K. F. Boersma, E. van Schaik, R. van Versendaal, A. Cacciari, and O. N. E. Tuinder https://doi.org/10.21944/gome2a-sifter-v2-sun-induced-fluorescence
Short summary
With our improved algorithm we have generated a stable, long-term dataset of fluorescence measurements from the GOME-2A satellite instrument. In this study we determined a correction for the degradation of GOME-2A in orbit and applied this correction along with other improvements to our SIFTER v2 retrieval algorithm. The result is a coherent dataset of daily and monthly averaged fluorescence values for the period 2007–2018 to track worldwide changes in photosynthetic activity by vegetation.
With our improved algorithm we have generated a stable, long-term dataset of fluorescence...
