Data products

Cloud

DESCRIPTION

The TROPOMI/S5P cloud properties retrieval is based on the OCRA and ROCINN algorithms currently being used in the operational GOME and GOME-2 products. OCRA retrieves the cloud fraction using measurements in the UV/VIS spectral regions and ROCINN retrieves the cloud height (pressure) and optical thickness (albedo) using measurements in and around the oxygen A-band at 760 nm. For TROPOMI/S5P we use OCRA/ROCINN Version 3.0, which is based on a more realistic treatment of clouds as optically uniform layers of light-scattering particles. Additionally the cloud parameters are also provided for a cloud model which assumes the cloud to be a Lambertian reflecting boundary. The figures below illustrate the Cloud Fraction (top panel) and the Cloud Top Pressure (lower panel) as derived from TROPOMI data from 2 January 2018.

Data product version summary (click current version number for the latest PRF).
Version number Version Effective Date Summary of Changes

1.01.00

Next planned update

 

1.00.00

NRTI: 2018-07-04 (orbit 03745) to present

OFFL: 2018-06-28 (orbit 03661) to present

First product release

 

USER DOCUMENTATION: ATBD, PUM, & README

Links to the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), Product User Manual (PUM), and the Product Readme File (PRF) is provided here on the right under Documentation. 

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