The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment archive of water vapour products from satellite observations and reanalyses

Schröder, Marc; Lockhoff, Maarit; Fell, Frank; Forsythe, John; Trent, Tim; Bennartz, Ralf; Borbas, Eva; Bosilovich, Michael G.; Castelli, Elisa; Hersbach, Hans; Kachi, Misako; Kobayashi, Shinya; Kursinski, E. Robert; Loyola, Diego; Mears, Carl; Preusker, Rene; Rossow, William B.; Saha, Suranjana

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1093-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1093–1117, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1093-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1093–1117, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1093-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

Review article 15 Jun 2018

Review article | 15 Jun 2018

The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment archive of water vapour products from satellite observations and reanalyses

Marc Schröder et al.

Data sets

The GEWEX water vapor assessment archive of water vapour products from satellites and reanalyses M. Schröder, M. Lockhoff, F. Fell, J. Forsythe, T. Trent, R. Bennartz, E. Borbas, M. G. Bosilovich, E. Castelli, H. Hersbach, M. Kachi, S. Kobayashi, D. Loyola, C. Mears, R. Preusker, W. B. Rossow, and S. Saha https://doi.org/10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/GVAP/V001

Short summary

This publication presents results achieved within the GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment (G-VAP). An overview of available water vapour data records based on satellite observations and reanalysis is given. If a minimum temporal coverage of 10 years is applied, 22 data records remain. These form the G-VAP data archive, which contains total column water vapour, specific humidity profiles and temperature profiles. The G-VAP data archive is designed to ease intercomparison and climate model evaluation.