SCIAMACHY Validation Support

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SCIAMACHY Validation Support

• Ankie Piters, KNMI

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SCIAVALIG

• SCIAMACHY Validation and Interpretation Group
  subgroup of SCIAMACHY Science Advisory Group
  (SSAG advising national agencies and ESA).
• Chairs Hennie Kelder, Ulrich Platt, Paul Simon
• Overall coordination Ankie Piters
• National coordination
• Klaus Bramstedt Berit Kirchhoff (D)
• Ankie Piters (NL)
• Jean-Christopher Lambert (B)
• No formal connection to ESA-ACVT, but adapting
  the activities to be complementary

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Who to contact

• SCIAVALIG has
• Support office website and questions
• URL http//www.sciamachy-validation.org
• E-mail sciavalig_at_knmi.nl
• National coordinators
• For general issues on SCIAMACHY validation
• SCIAMACHY validation product coordinators
• For specific product issues. Report your
  validation results to them. They report to
  SCIAVALIG and SSAG
• ESA has
• Helpdesk (eohelp_at_esa.int) all questions on
  operational products and reporting of problems
• ACVT more general issues contact Paul Snoeij

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Finding SCIAMACHY products

• All scientific products listed on validation
  website
• Information on algorithms, available data, and
  data access
• Available operational products
• E.g. Use SCIAMACHY metadata files in Netherlands
  SCIAMACHY Data Centre
• ASCII files with for each state
  timecoordinates software version (level 0,1,2)
• Decontamination, SCIA off, Envisat off
• SOST website

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Reading/analysing

• BEAT software open source
• Tools on validation website
• Colocation tools
• Reading tools
• Trajectory tools

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Feedback

• Improve products
• Feedback to/from product developers (scientific
  products) and eohelp (operational products)
• Compare results
• Feedback to/from product coordinators
• Share results
• Posting and discussion on validation website
• Joint publications
• Individual support
• E-mail to national coordinators, or
  sciavalig_at_knmi.nl

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Website

• http//www.sciamachy-validation.org
• Should guide you to all information relevant for
  validation of SCIA products.
• Please let us know what you miss (now or later)!