Glyretro - GLYoxal Retrievals from TROPOMI

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The GLYRETRO activity is one of the seven themes from the ESA S5p innovation (S5p+I) project, which aims at further exploiting the capability of the S5p/TROPOMI instrument with the development of a number of new scientific products. 

The project, proposed by both the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy and the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen, started on 1 July 2019 and ran for 2 years.

The objectives were to:

  1. develop a scientific glyoxal (CHOCHO) tropospheric column product,
  2. collect independent data sets in order to validate the satellite observations,
  3. pave the way towards an operationalization of the developed S5p glyoxal product and
  4. demonstrate the added-value of the S5p glyoxal product for the user community.

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The project produced a TROPOMI Glyoxal dataset for the years 2018-2022 (Lerot, C. & Danckaert, T. (2021). TROPOMI glyoxal tropospheric columns (Version V4) [Data set]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021069). 

The glyoxal retrieval algorithm developed within the project was transferred to the ESA S5P-PAL system, and a continuously updated glyoxal dataset spanning the entire S5p mission time is available at CHOCHO product on the S5P-PAL Data Portal.

 
For more information on the project, contact Thomas Danckaert