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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-297-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-297-2022
Research article
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20 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 20 Jan 2022

Total water vapour columns derived from Sentinel 5P using the AMC-DOAS method

Tobias Küchler, Stefan Noël, Heinrich Bovensmann, John Philip Burrows, Thomas Wagner, Christian Borger, Tobias Borsdorff, and Andreas Schneider

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We applied the air-mass-corrected differential optical absorption spectroscopy (AMC-DOAS) method to derive total column water vapour (TCWV) from Sentinel-5P measurements and compared it to independent data sets. The correlation coefficients of typically more than 0.9 and the small deviations up to 2.5 kg m−2 reveal good agreement between our data product and other TCWV data sets. In particular for the different Sentinel-5P water vapour products, the deviations are around 1 kg m−2.
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