Potential of the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) onboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor for the monitoring of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence

Guanter, L.; Aben, I.; Tol, P.; Krijger, J. M.; Hollstein, A.; Köhler, P.; Damm, A.; Joiner, J.; Frankenberg, C.; Landgraf, J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1337-2015

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19 Mar 2015

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| 19 Mar 2015

Potential of the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) onboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor for the monitoring of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence

L. Guanter, I. Aben, P. Tol, J. M. Krijger, A. Hollstein, P. Köhler, A. Damm, J. Joiner, C. Frankenberg, and J. Landgraf

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RC C4407: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 04 Jan 2015
- AC C4951: 'Response to referee #1', Luis Guanter, 24 Feb 2015
RC C4491: 'What about challenges specific to S5P?', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jan 2015
- AC C4955: 'Response to referee #3 (note that the responses to rev. #1 and #3 must be swapped!)', Luis Guanter, 24 Feb 2015

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This paper investigates the potential of the upcoming TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) instrument for the retrieval of the chlorophyll fluorescence signal emitted in the 650–850nm spectral range by the photosynthetic machinery of green plants. We find that TROPOMI will allow substantial improvements in the space monitoring of fluorescence with respect to current spaceborne instruments such as GOME-2 and SCIAMACHY.