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

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

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

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

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

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RC1: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Mar 2018
RC2: 'Large-scale water vapor datasets', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Apr 2018
AC1: 'Author response to Anonymous Referees #1 and #2', Marc Schroeder, 22 May 2018

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.