AC SAF institutes
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
- Leading entity
- Products / services:
- Processing of offline surface UV products
- Validation of offline surface UV products
- Validation of offline total water vapour column product
- Archiving and dissemination of offline coarse/high-resolution ozone profiles, surface UV and aerosol products
- Central helpdesk and user services
- AC SAF web pages
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
- Co-operating entity
- Products / services:
- Development of total and/or tropospheric O3, NO2, SO2, BrO, HCHO, H2O, OClO and CHOCHO products
- Processing of GOME-2 NRT total and tropospheric column products
- Processing of GOME-2 offline total and tropospheric column products
- Dissemination of the above products
- Archiving of offline total and tropospheric column products
- User services
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), the Netherlands
- Co-operating entity
- Products / services:
- Development of GOME-2 ozone profile products (coarse/high-resolution)
- Processing of GOME-2 NRT and offline ozone profile products
- Processing of GOME-2 NRT and offline aerosol products
- Processing of GOME-2 assimilated total ozone
- Validation of the above products
- Dissemination of NRT ozone profile products
Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Denmark
- Co-operating entity
- Products / services:
- Processing, validation and dissemination of NRT UV products
German Weather Service (DWD), Germany
- Co-operating entity
- Products / services:
- Validation of GOME-2 and IASI ozone profile products with lidar and microwave radiometers and quality assurance
Royal Meteorological Institute (KMI), Belgium
- Co-operating entity
- Products / services:
- Validation of GOME-2 and IASI ozone profile products with balloon soundings
- Validation of GOME-2 offline tropospheric ozone, NO2, HCHO and aerosol products and quality assurance
- NRT quality assurance service
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece
- Co-operating entity
- Products / services:
- Validation and quality assurance of GOME-2 and IASI total ozone products
- Validation and quality assurance of GOME-2 and IASI SO2 products
- WWW user service of total ozone products
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Belgium
- Co-operating entity
- Products / services:
- Development of total and/or tropospheric O3, NO2, BrO, SO2, OClO, HCHO, HCOHCO products
- Validation and quality assurance of NO2, BrO, OClO, HCHO, CHOCHO and IASI SO2 and HNO3 products
- Quality assurance WWW service for users
Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), France
- Co-operating entity
- Products / services:
- IASI codes and algorithms
- Support for IASI ozone, ozone profile, CO, SO2 and HNO3 implementation
- Validation and quality assurance of IASI SO2, CO and HNO3 products
- IASI support to EUMETSAT processing
- IASI-GOME-2 ozone profile research
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
- Sub-entity, working with LATMOS
- Products / services:
- IASI codes and algorithms
- Support for IASI ozone, ozone profile, CO, SO2 and HNO3 implementation
- Validation and quality assurance of IASI SO2, CO and HNO3 products
- IASI support to EUMETSAT processing
- IASI-GOME-2 ozone profile research
Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation (MKF), Greece
- Sub-entity, working with AUTH
- Products / services:
- Total ozone and ozone profile validation and quality assurance
- User services for WMO bulletins and Ozone assessments
S&T Corporation, the Netherlands
- Sub-contractor for FMI
- Products / services:
- Development and updates of BEAT and VISAN interfaces for GOME-2 and IASI L1 and L2 data
- User services of these interfaces