GOME-2: calibration, algorithms, data products and validation
GOME-2: calibration, algorithms, data products and validation
Editor(s): R. Munro, J. Tamminen, and P. Stammes
The GOME-2 instrument on EUMETSAT's Metop polar satellite series is a spectrometer observing the Earth in the ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared range. From these spectra many data products are being derived, such as ozone, UV irradiance, NO2, SO2, aerosols, clouds, and other atmospheric constituents. The goal of this Special Issue is to combine and summarize the scientific work related to GOME-2 onboard Metop-A (launched in October 2006) and Metop-B (launched in September 2012). The Special Issue is open for contributions about GOME-2 calibration, level 0-1 and level 1-2 algorithms, data products and validation.

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14 Feb 2019
The use of QBO, ENSO, and NAO perturbations in the evaluation of GOME-2 MetOp A total ozone measurements
Kostas Eleftheratos, Christos S. Zerefos, Dimitris S. Balis, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, John Kapsomenakis, Diego G. Loyola, Pieter Valks, Melanie Coldewey-Egbers, Christophe Lerot, Stacey M. Frith, Amund S. Haslerud, Ivar S. A. Isaksen, and Seppo Hassinen
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 987–1011, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-987-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-987-2019, 2019
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07 Apr 2016
Validation of GOME-2/Metop total column water vapour with ground-based and in situ measurements
Niilo Kalakoski, Jukka Kujanpää, Viktoria Sofieva, Johanna Tamminen, Margherita Grossi, and Pieter Valks
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1533–1544, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1533-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1533-2016, 2016
24 Mar 2016
The GOME-2 instrument on the Metop series of satellites: instrument design, calibration, and level 1 data processing – an overview
Rosemary Munro, Rüdiger Lang, Dieter Klaes, Gabriele Poli, Christian Retscher, Rasmus Lindstrot, Roger Huckle, Antoine Lacan, Michael Grzegorski, Andriy Holdak, Alexander Kokhanovsky, Jakob Livschitz, and Michael Eisinger
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 1279–1301, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1279-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1279-2016, 2016
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08 Feb 2016
Overview of the O3M SAF GOME-2 operational atmospheric composition and UV radiation data products and data availability
S. Hassinen, D. Balis, H. Bauer, M. Begoin, A. Delcloo, K. Eleftheratos, S. Gimeno Garcia, J. Granville, M. Grossi, N. Hao, P. Hedelt, F. Hendrick, M. Hess, K.-P. Heue, J. Hovila, H. Jønch-Sørensen, N. Kalakoski, A. Kauppi, S. Kiemle, L. Kins, M. E. Koukouli, J. Kujanpää, J.-C. Lambert, R. Lang, C. Lerot, D. Loyola, M. Pedergnana, G. Pinardi, F. Romahn, M. van Roozendael, R. Lutz, I. De Smedt, P. Stammes, W. Steinbrecht, J. Tamminen, N. Theys, L. G. Tilstra, O. N. E. Tuinder, P. Valks, C. Zerefos, W. Zimmer, and I. Zyrichidou
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 383–407, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-383-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-383-2016, 2016
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27 Jan 2016
Comparison of GOME-2/Metop-A ozone profiles with GOMOS, OSIRIS and MLS measurements
A. Kauppi, O. N. E. Tuinder, S. Tukiainen, V. Sofieva, and J. Tamminen
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 249–261, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-249-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-249-2016, 2016
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02 Dec 2015
Metrology of ground-based satellite validation: co-location mismatch and smoothing issues of total ozone comparisons
T. Verhoelst, J. Granville, F. Hendrick, U. Köhler, C. Lerot, J.-P. Pommereau, A. Redondas, M. Van Roozendael, and J.-C. Lambert
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 5039–5062, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-5039-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-5039-2015, 2015
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21 Oct 2015
Operational surface UV radiation product from GOME-2 and AVHRR/3 data
J. Kujanpää and N. Kalakoski
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 4399–4414, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4399-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4399-2015, 2015
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21 Oct 2015
The direct fitting approach for total ozone column retrievals: a sensitivity study on GOME-2/MetOp-A measurements
A. Wassmann, T. Borsdorff, J. M. J. aan de Brugh, O. P. Hasekamp, I. Aben, and J. Landgraf
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 4429–4451, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4429-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4429-2015, 2015
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05 Oct 2015
Development and characterisation of a state-of-the-art GOME-2 formaldehyde air-mass factor algorithm
W. Hewson, M. P. Barkley, G. Gonzalez Abad, H. Bösch, T. Kurosu, R. Spurr, and L. G. Tilstra
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 4055–4074, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4055-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4055-2015, 2015
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20 May 2015
Round-robin evaluation of nadir ozone profile retrievals: methodology and application to MetOp-A GOME-2
A. Keppens, J.-C. Lambert, J. Granville, G. Miles, R. Siddans, J. C. A. van Peet, R. J. van der A, D. Hubert, T. Verhoelst, A. Delcloo, S. Godin-Beekmann, R. Kivi, R. Stübi, and C. Zehner
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 2093–2120, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2093-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2093-2015, 2015
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06 Mar 2015
Validation of GOME-2/MetOp-A total water vapour column using reference radiosonde data from the GRUAN network
M. Antón, D. Loyola, R. Román, and H. Vömel
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 1135–1145, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1135-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1135-2015, 2015
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05 Mar 2015
Total column water vapour measurements from GOME-2 MetOp-A and MetOp-B
M. Grossi, P. Valks, D. Loyola, B. Aberle, S. Slijkhuis, T. Wagner, S. Beirle, and R. Lang
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 1111–1133, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1111-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1111-2015, 2015
22 Jan 2015
Tropospheric ozone and ozone profiles retrieved from GOME-2 and their validation
G. M. Miles, R. Siddans, B. J. Kerridge, B. G. Latter, and N. A. D. Richards
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 385–398, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-385-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-385-2015, 2015
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12 Sep 2014
GOME-2 total ozone columns from MetOp-A/MetOp-B and assimilation in the MACC system
N. Hao, M. E. Koukouli, A. Inness, P. Valks, D. G. Loyola, W. Zimmer, D. S. Balis, I. Zyrichidou, M. Van Roozendael, C. Lerot, and R. J. D. Spurr
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2937–2951, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2937-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2937-2014, 2014
14 Aug 2014
Tropical tropospheric ozone column retrieval for GOME-2
P. Valks, N. Hao, S. Gimeno Garcia, D. Loyola, M. Dameris, P. Jöckel, and A. Delcloo
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2513–2530, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2513-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2513-2014, 2014
09 Jul 2014
Contiguous polarisation spectra of the Earth from 300 to 850 nm measured by GOME-2 onboard MetOp-A
L. G. Tilstra, R. Lang, R. Munro, I. Aben, and P. Stammes
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2047–2059, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2047-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2047-2014, 2014
31 Mar 2014
Ozone ProfilE Retrieval Algorithm (OPERA) for nadir-looking satellite instruments in the UV–VIS
J. C. A. van Peet, R. J. van der A, O. N. E. Tuinder, E. Wolfram, J. Salvador, P. F. Levelt, and H. M. Kelder
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 859–876, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-859-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-859-2014, 2014
25 Oct 2013
Global monitoring of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence from moderate-spectral-resolution near-infrared satellite measurements: methodology, simulations, and application to GOME-2
J. Joiner, L. Guanter, R. Lindstrot, M. Voigt, A. P. Vasilkov, E. M. Middleton, K. F. Huemmrich, Y. Yoshida, and C. Frankenberg
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 2803–2823, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2803-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2803-2013, 2013
08 Oct 2013
A feasibility study for the retrieval of the total column precipitable water vapour from satellite observations in the blue spectral range
T. Wagner, S. Beirle, H. Sihler, and K. Mies
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 2593–2605, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2593-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2593-2013, 2013
18 Feb 2013
Characterisation of GOME-2 formaldehyde retrieval sensitivity
W. Hewson, H. Bösch, M. P. Barkley, and I. De Smedt
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 371–386, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-371-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-371-2013, 2013
28 Nov 2012
Improved retrieval of global tropospheric formaldehyde columns from GOME-2/MetOp-A addressing noise reduction and instrumental degradation issues
I. De Smedt, M. Van Roozendael, T. Stavrakou, J.-F. Müller, C. Lerot, N. Theys, P. Valks, N. Hao, and R. van der A
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 2933–2949, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-2933-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-2933-2012, 2012
16 Nov 2012
Tropospheric BrO column densities in the Arctic derived from satellite: retrieval and comparison to ground-based measurements
H. Sihler, U. Platt, S. Beirle, T. Marbach, S. Kühl, S. Dörner, J. Verschaeve, U. Frieß, D. Pöhler, L. Vogel, R. Sander, and T. Wagner
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 2779–2807, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-2779-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-2779-2012, 2012
07 Sep 2012
Geophysical validation and long-term consistency between GOME-2/MetOp-A total ozone column and measurements from the sensors GOME/ERS-2, SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT and OMI/Aura
M. E. Koukouli, D. S. Balis, D. Loyola, P. Valks, W. Zimmer, N. Hao, J.-C. Lambert, M. Van Roozendael, C. Lerot, and R. J. D. Spurr
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5, 2169–2181, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-2169-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-2169-2012, 2012
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