S5P PAL TCWV
The ESA-funded Product Algorithm Laboratory (PAL) provides a cloud platform for developing and running atmospheric processors based on Copernicus Sentinel-5P data.
DLR MF-ATP contributes with the Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) processor. It uses a novel algorithm to retrieve total column water vapour values from the blue band of TROPOMI/S5P data.
The current project phase focuses on improvements of the processor and the TCWV product. The enhanced version 1.5 has been deployed on the PAL system and is continously generating water vapour products from TROPOMI data. A full mission reprocessing campaign created a homogeneous TCWV data set compliant to the latest L1 product version.
The main users who benefit from the PAL products are ESA, the European Commission and the scientific community.
S5P Total Column Water Vapour products can be downloaded from the PAL platform: https://data-portal.s5p-pal.com/
Links
K. L. Chan et al (2022): TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument observations of total column water vapour:
Algorithm and validation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153232