A 16-year global climate data record of total column water vapour generated from OMI observations in the visible blue spectral range

Borger, Christian; Beirle, Steffen; Wagner, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3023-2023

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Data description paper |

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A 16-year global climate data record of total column water vapour generated from OMI observations in the visible blue spectral range

Christian Borger, Steffen Beirle, and Thomas Wagner

Data sets

MPIC OMI Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) Climate Data Record Christian Borger, Steffen Beirle, and Thomas Wagner https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7973889

Short summary

This study presents a long-term data set of monthly mean total column water vapour (TCWV) based on measurements of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) covering the time range from January 2005 to December 2020. We describe how the TCWV values are retrieved from UV–Vis satellite spectra and demonstrate that the OMI TCWV data set is in good agreement with various different reference data sets. Moreover, we also show that it fulfills typical stability requirements for climate data records.