SO2 data and alert service

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Product information

Introduction
 
Slant column density vs.
vertical column density
Geographic regions
Data presentation
and delivery
Solar Zenith Angle
What is the Dobson Unit?
 
Slant column retrieval
Background correction
Reference spectrum
Cloud cover fraction
 
Near-real time service
Criteria for exceptional
SO2 concentrations
 
Air-mass factor using
look-up tables
Air-mass factor using a
chemistry transport model
SO2 column from OMI
 
Time period of
available data
Data format specification
Data and Service
version history
Validation of the
data products
South Atlantic Anomaly
 
Downloading
data & image files
Documentation
References
Acronyms
Acknowledgments


 
NOTE:   This is the OLD product info. Some parts of it are no longer up to date, while other parts are missing -- see the remark on the main product info page.

Time period of the data in the SO2 archive

Data for the Air Quality and the Volcanic SO2 Archive & Near-real time Services have been / are computed for the following time periods:

instrument
(satellite)
time period of data
Archive service NRT service
GOME
(ERS-2)
[to come] [not applicable]
SCIAMACHY
(ENVISAT)
September 2004
-- July 2008

-- present
OMI
(EOS-Aura)
[to come]
-- present
GOME-2
(MetOp-A)
[to come]
-- present

 

Missing data in the SO2 data archive

The satellites carrying the instruments perform 14 or 15 orbits per day. It happens that for one or more of these orbits data is missing, either because the instrument did not measure anything, or because the measurement is of too low quality for a reliable retrieval. This missing data leads to gaps in the plots of the daily data. For some geographic regions of either of the two Services the web pages accessing the data archive will then show empty pictures.

There are also days with no data at all, again because of lack of measurements of lack of the quality of these measurements. For these days there will be no data in the archive at all, and the web pages accessing the data archive will show a message.

The following tables lists full(!) days without any data; these table is maintained by hand and may thus be incomplete.
 

SCIAMACHY
 
Year Month Days
2008    
2007 December
September
02-04
25-27
2006 December
November
September
April
13-15
29
08-10
06-08, 17-19
2005 May
January
12
01-02
2004 December
November
October
September
20-31
17
01
23
 
 
OMI -- to check
 
Year Month Days
2008    
2007    
 
 
GOME-2 -- to check
 
Year Month Days
2008    
2007    
 

 


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