The preliminary validation of GOMOS, MIPAS and SCIAMACHY by ground based instruments and soundings

R. M. Koopman (1) , Thomas Blumenstock (2) , J.P. Burrows (3) , P. Ciotti (4) , Fernando Congeduti (5) , Vicenze Cuomo (6) , M. de Mazière (7) , D. de Muer (8) , K.-H. Fricke (9) , G. Hansen (10) , Philippe Keckhut (11) , H. Kelder (12) , E. Kyrö (13) , Jean-Christopher Lambert (7) , A. Matthews (14) , S. R. Pal (15) , A. Petritoli (16) , D. Swart (17) , Y. M. Timofeyev (18) , G. Visconti (19)

1 ESRIN - European Space Research Institute
2 IMK - Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research
3 IUP - Institute of Environmental Physics [Bremen]
4 DIIIE / UNIVAQ - Dipartimento di Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione e di economia
5 ISAC - Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima
6 IMAA - Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale
7 BIRA-IASB - Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy / Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique
8 IRM - Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique [Bruxelles] - Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
9 Physikalisches Institut [Bonn]
10 NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
11 SA - Service d'aéronomie
12 KNMI - Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
13 FMI - Finnish Meteorological Institute
14 NIWA - National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [Auckland]
15 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Toronto]
16 ISAC - CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
17 RIVM - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven]
18 SPbU - St Petersburg State University
19 Dipartimento di Fisica [L'Aquila]

This paper introduces the preparations, data collection and initial validation activities performed by the team. The Campaign Database objectives, development and initial performance are addressed in a separate papers [1,2,3,4]. The subsequent papers consist of a set of overview papers concentrating on validation analysis results for specific products, and a set of individual papers outlining in detail the

Domaines: Physique Atmosphérique et Océanique [physics.ao-ph]

R. M. Koopman, Thomas Blumenstock, J.P. Burrows, P. Ciotti, Fernando Congeduti, et al.. The preliminary validation of GOMOS, MIPAS and SCIAMACHY by ground based instruments and soundings. Proceedings of the ENVISAT Validation Workshop (ESA SP-531), Dec 2002, Frascati, Italy. ⟨hal-01633196⟩