The CM SAF ATOVS data record: overview of methodology and evaluation of total column water and profiles of tropospheric humidity

Courcoux, N.; Schröder, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-397-2015

Articles | Volume 7, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-397-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-397-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 2

Review article

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08 Dec 2015

Review article |

| 08 Dec 2015

The CM SAF ATOVS data record: overview of methodology and evaluation of total column water and profiles of tropospheric humidity

N. Courcoux and M. Schröder

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RC C55: 'Paper needs better balanced presentation of the data products', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Apr 2015
- AC C223: 'Answers to anonymous referee #1', Nathalie Courcoux, 17 Aug 2015
RC C61: 'The CM SAF ATOVS tropospheric water vapour and temperature data record: Overview of methodology and evaluation', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Apr 2015
- AC C238: 'Answers to Anonymous Referee #2', Nathalie Courcoux, 17 Aug 2015

Short summary

Despite its great importance for the climate, the behaviour and content of water vapour in the troposphere is insufficiently known. The ATOVS instruments onboard polar-orbiting satellites allow the retrieval of water vapour at different altitudes and on global scale. Here a consistent reprocessing of water vapour products derived from the ATOVS instrument from 1999 to 2011 is presented and compared to time series derived from other instruments. The data are freely available at www.cmsaf.eu/wui.