In-orbit Earth reflectance validation of TROPOMI on board the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite

Tilstra, Lieuwe G.; de Graaf, Martin; Wang, Ping; Stammes, Piet

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4479-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4479-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4479-2020

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18 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 18 Aug 2020

In-orbit Earth reflectance validation of TROPOMI on board the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite

Lieuwe G. Tilstra, Martin de Graaf, Ping Wang, and Piet Stammes

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RC1: 'Review of 20 March version', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 May 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer #1', Gijsbert Tilstra, 12 Jun 2020
RC2: 'In-orbit Earth reflectance validation of TROPOMI on board the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite', Ruediger Lang, 15 May 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Gijsbert Tilstra, 12 Jun 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Gijsbert Tilstra on behalf of the Authors (12 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Jun 2020) by Ben Veihelmann

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (30 Jun 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (03 Jul 2020) by Ben Veihelmann

AR by Gijsbert Tilstra on behalf of the Authors (09 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 Jul 2020) by Ben Veihelmann

AR by Gijsbert Tilstra on behalf of the Authors (16 Jul 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

The goal of the study was to determine the accuracy of the radiometric calibration of the TROPOMI instrument on board the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite in flight. The Earth reflectances were compared to radiative transfer calculations. We report calibration accuracies and errors for 21 selected wavelength bands between 328 and 2314 nm, located in TROPOMI spectral bands 3–7. The reported numbers can be used to perform corrections that will benefit the retrievals of many atmospheric properties.