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The GOME-2 instrument on the Metop series of satellites: instrument design, calibration, and level 1 data processing – an overview
Rosemary Munro
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Rüdiger Lang
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Dieter Klaes
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Gabriele Poli
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Christian Retscher
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Rasmus Lindstrot
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Roger Huckle
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Antoine Lacan
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Michael Grzegorski
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Andriy Holdak
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Alexander Kokhanovsky
EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, Darmstadt,
Germany
Jakob Livschitz
European Space Agency – European Space Research &
Technology Centre (ESA-ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands
Michael Eisinger
European Space Agency – European Centre for Space
Applications and Telecommunications (ESA-ECSAT), Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK
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Short summary
The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) flies on the Metop series of satellites. In this paper we will provide an overview of the instrument design, the on-ground calibration and characterization activities, in-flight calibration, and level 0 to 1 data processing. The information contained in this paper summarizes a large number of technical reports and related documents containing information that is not currently available in the published literature.
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