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SCIAMACHY Validation Support. Ankie Piters, KNMI. 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
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SCIAMACHY Validation Support Ankie Piters, KNMI
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
Who to contact SCIAVALIG has: • Support office: website and questions URL: http://www.sciamachy-validation.org E-mail: sciavalig@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@esa.int): all questions on operational products and reporting of problems • ACVT: more general issues: contact Paul Snoeij
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: time+coordinates+ software version (level 0,1,2) • Decontamination, SCIA off:, Envisat off: • SOST website
Reading/analysing • BEAT software: open source • Tools on validation website: • Colocation tools • Reading tools • Trajectory tools
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@knmi.nl
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)!