EGU2020-6895, updated on 25 Apr 2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6895
EGU General Assembly 2020
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Sentinel 5 Precursor: Status of TROPOMI and the Operational Data Products

Pepijn Veefkind1,2, Ilse Aben3, Angelika Dehn4, Quintus Kleipool1, Diego Loyola5, Andreas Richter6, Michel van Roozendael7, Richard Siddans8, Thomas Wagner9, Claus Zehner4, and Pieternel Level1,2
Pepijn Veefkind et al.
  • 1KNMI, R&D Satellite Observations, De Bilt, The Netherlands (veefkind@knmi.nl)
  • 2Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
  • 3Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 4European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy
  • 5German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany
  • 6University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  • 7Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
  • 8Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
  • 9Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

The Copernicus Sentinel 5 Precursor (S5P) is the first of the Sentinel satellites dedicated to the observation of the atmospheric composition, for climate, air quality and ozone monitoring applications. The payload of S5P is TROPOMI (TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument), a spectrometer covering spectral bands in ultraviolet, visible, near infrared and shortwave infrared, which was developed by The Netherlands in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA). TROPOMI has a wide swath of 2600 km, enabling daily global coverage, in combination with a high spatial resolution of about 3.5 x 5.5 km2 (7 x 5.5 km2 for the SWIR band).

S5P was successfully launched on 13 October 2017 and following a six-month commissioning phase, the operational data stream started at the end of April 2018. All of the TROPOMI operational data products have been released, with the exception of the ozone profile, which is planned to become available with the next major release[AR1]  of the Level 1B data. In addition to the operational data products, new research products are also being developed.

In this contribution, the status of TROPOMI and its data products will be presented. Results for observations of recent events will be provided, along with an outlook on the next release of the data products.

 

How to cite: Veefkind, P., Aben, I., Dehn, A., Kleipool, Q., Loyola, D., Richter, A., van Roozendael, M., Siddans, R., Wagner, T., Zehner, C., and Level, P.: Sentinel 5 Precursor: Status of TROPOMI and the Operational Data Products, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-6895, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6895, 2020.