GOME Activities

Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME)

The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) was launched in 1995 aboard the ESA ERS-2 polar platform. The objectives of this nadir-looking hyper-spectral UV-visible spectrometer cover a wide range of scientific fields, spanning from stratospheric ozone and climate change studies to atmospheric pollution monitoring.

The broad spectral range (240-790 nm) covered by its four medium-resolution spectrometers (0.2-0.4 nm) enables the measurement of key geophysical quantities such as ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), bromine monoxide (BrO), chlorine dioxide (OClO), sulphur dioxide (SO2), formaldehyde (HCHO), clouds, surface reflectivity, and aerosols. Its nadir-looking geometry makes it particularly suited for vertical column and tropospheric observations. Its polar orbit associated with a swath width of 960 km across track yield global coverage in less than three days.

GOME is the successful predecessor of a series of new generation sensors like SCIAMACHY aboard ESA's ENVISAT (operating since 2002), OMI aboard NASA's EOS-Aura, and GOME-2 aboard the EUMETSAT METOP series of meteorological satellites. Among major achievements, GOME demonstrated the feasibility of tropospheric trace species observations from space. It is also the first satellite providing global, continuous measurement of NO2, BrO, HCHO and SO2. GOME, followed recently by SCIAMACHY, have started a unique long-term ozone data record extending those initiated in the late 70s by TOMS/SBUV missions.

GOME Research at BIRA-IASB

For nearly two decades, the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy BIRA-IASB has developed expertise in UV-visible remote sensing of atmospheric composition from the ground and from space. BIRA-IASB has developed its own spectral analysis algorithms for the retrieval of geophysical data from GOME radiometric measurements. It has also been involved in the development, the geophysical validation and the exploitation of GOME data generated by international collaborators.

This web site illustrates a few aspects of GOME research carried out at BIRA-IASB :


	Photograph of Etna volcano: courtesy of Jean-Louis Piette
Retrieval of total BrO	Retrieval of total SO₂	Geophysical validation of O₃ and NO₂

Research Teams

General contact information
Postal address:	BIRA-IASB Ringlaan/Avenue Circulaire 3 B-1180 Brussels, BELGIUM
Telephone:	+32-2-373.0, followed by extension (see below)
Fax:	+32-2-374.84.23
BrO Team
	Fayt, Caroline Telephone-extension: 416
	Van Roozendael, Michel Telephone-extension: 416
SO₂ Team
	De Smedt, Isabelle Telephone-extension: 406
	Theys, Nicolas Telephone-extension: 406
Geophysical Validation Team
	De Clercq, Coralie Telephone-extension: 412
	Lambert, Jean-Christopher Telephone-extension: 468

Publications and References

2003

Khaikin, S. M., V. M. Dorokhov, D. V. Ignatiev, A. Mieville, F. Goutail, J-P. Pommereau, and J-C. Lambert, Investigation of the influence of geophysical factors on satellite-based GOME total O3 and NO2 measurements; Comparison with ground-based observations with SAOZ in polar latitudes, Issledovaniya Zemli iz Kosmosa (in Russian),Vol. 3, 2003 (in press).

Valks, P.J.M., A.J.M. Piters, J.-C. Lambert, C. Zehner, and H. Kelder, A Fast Delivery System for the retrieval of near-real time ozone columns from GOME data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 24, pp. 423-436, 2003.

2002

Lambert, J.-C., G. Hansen, V. Soebijanta, W. Thomas, M. Van Roozendael, D. S. Balis, C. Fayt, P. Gerard, J. F. Gleason, J. Granville, J-C. Lambert, G. Labow, D. Loyola, J. H. G. van Geffen, R. F. van Oss, C. Zehner, and C. S. Zerefos, ERS-2 GOME GDP3.0 Implementation and Validation, ESA Technical Note ERSE-DTEX-EOAD-TN-02-0006, 138 pp., Ed. by J.-C. Lambert (IASB), November 2002.

Ionov, D.V., Yu. M. Timofeyev, A. M. Shalamiansky, and J.C. Lambert, Comparison of satellite total ozone measurements with a data of multiyear observations of Russian ground-based network, in Proc. International Radiation Symposium of NIS countries, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 18-21 June 2002, pp. 98-99, 2002 (in Russian).

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, and M. De Mazière, Development, validation, and exploitation of ERS-2 GOME satellite data: Overview and perspectives for Envisat, in Space Research in Belgium, Ed. by the Prime Minister's Services - Federal Office for Scientific, technical and Cultural Affairs, Vol. III Part 3, 47-66, 2002.

Lambert, J.-C., M. De Mazière, and M. Van Roozendael, Satellite remote sensing of tropospheric chemistry, in Space Research in Belgium, Ed. by the Prime Minister's Services - Federal Office for Scientific, technical and Cultural Affairs, Vol. III Part 3, 41-45, 2002.

Van Roozendael, M., T. Wagner, A. Richter, I. Pundt, D. W. Arlander, J. P. Burrows, M. Chipperfield, C. Fayt, P. V. Johnston, J.-C. Lambert, K. Kreher, K. Pfeilsticker, U. Platt, J.-P. Pommereau, B.-M. Sinnhuber, K. K. Tørnkvist, and F. Wittrock, Intercomparison of BrO Measurements From ERS-2 GOME, Ground-based and Balloon Platforms, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 29, pp. 1661-1666, 2002.

Van Roozendael, M., C. Fayt, C. Hermans, and J.-C. Lambert, Retrieval of tropospheric BrO ad NO2 from UV-visible Observations, in the Annual Report 2001-TROPOSAT: The Use and Usability of Satellite Data for Tropospheric Research, EUROTRAC-2 International Scientific Secretariat (ISS), GSF-National Research Centre for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany, pp. 67-71, May 2002.

2001

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, and P. C. Simon, Six years of ground-based support to the GOME mission : Overview and perspectives for ENVISAT, in Proc. Pre-launch Workshop on the Atmospheric Chemistry Validation of Envisat (ACVE), ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands, 16-18 May 2001, ESA WPP-186, 2001.

Valks, P. J. M., A. J. M. Piters, J.-C. Lambert, and C. Zehner, Improved near-real time GOME ozone column retrieval, in Looking Down to Earth in the New Millennium, Proc. ERS-Envisat Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-20 October 2000, ESA SP-461, 2001.

2000

Lambert, J.-C., J. Granville, M. Van Roozendael, J.-F. Müller, F. Goutail, J.-P. Pommereau, A. Sarkissian, P. V. Johnston, and J. M. Russell III, Global Behaviour of Atmospheric NO2 as Derived from the Integrated Use of Satellite, Ground-based Network and Balloon Observations, in Atmospheric Ozone - Proc. 19th Quad. Ozone Symp., Sapporo, Japan, 2000, Ed. by NASDA, pp. 201-202, 2000.

Van Roozendael, M., D.W. Arlander, J.P. Burrows, M. Chipperfield, C. Fayt, F. Hendrick, C. Hermans, P.V. Johnston, R.L. Jones, K. Kreher, J.-C. Lambert, N.M. Tahrin, D. Newnham, K. Pfeilsticker, U. Platt, J.-P. Pommereau, I. Pundt, A. Richter, B.M. Sinnhuber, A. South, K. K. Tørnkvist, and T. Wagner, Lessons learned from 2 years of coordinated multi-platform UV-visible observations of atmospheric bromine monoxide, in Atmospheric Ozone - Proc. 19th Quad. Ozone Symp., Sapporo, Japan, 2000, Ed. by NASDA, pp. 157-158, 2000.

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, P.C. Simon, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, J.F. Gleason, S.B. Andersen, D.W. Arlander, N.A. Bui Van, H. Claude, J. de La Noë, M. De Mazière, V. Dorokhov, P. Eriksen, A. Green, K. Karlsen Tørnkvist, B.A. Kåstad Høiskar, E. Kyrö, J. Leveau, M.-F. Merienne, G. Milinevsky, H.K. Roscoe, A. Sarkissian, J.D. Shanklin, J. Staehelin, C. Wahlstrøm Tellefsen, and G. Vaughan, Combined characterisation of GOME and TOMS total ozone measurements from space using ground-based observations from the NDSC, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 26, pp. 1931-1940, 2000.

1999

Lambert, J.-C., P. Peeters, A. Richter, N. A. J. Schutgens, Y. M. Timofeyev, T. Wagner, J. P. Burrows, N. F. Elansky, A. S. Elokhov, P. Gerard, J. Granville, A. M. Gruzdev, D. V. Ionov, V. V. Ionov, R. B. A. Koelemeijer, A. Ladstätter-Weißenmayer, C. Leue, D. Loyola, U. Platt, O. V. Postylyakov, A. M. Shalamiansky, P. C. Simon, P. Stammes, W. Thomas, M. Van Roozendael, M. Wenig, and F. Wittrock, ERS-2 GOME Data Products Delta Characterisation Report 1999, Validation Report for GOME Data Processor Upgrade: Level-0-to-1 Version 2.0 and Level-1-to-2 Version 2.7, Ed. by J.-C. Lambert and P. Skarlas (IASB), 104 pp., November 1999.

Richter, A., M. Van Roozendael, T. Wagner, J.-C. Lambert, D.W. Arlander, J. Burrows, C. Fayt, P.V. Johnston, R. Jones, K. Karlsen Tørnkvist, K. Kreher, K. Pfeilsticker, U. Platt, I. Pundt, A. South, and F. Wittrock, BrO measurement from GOME and from the ground: An intercomparison study, in Stratospheric Ozone 1999, N.R.P. Harris, M. Guirlet, and G.T. Amanatidis (Eds.), Air Pollution Research Report 73 (CEC DG XII), pp. 324-327, 1999.

Van Roozendael, M., C. Fayt, J.-C. Lambert, I. Pundt, T. Wagner, A. Richter, and K. Chance, Development of a bromine oxide product from GOME, in Proc. European Symposium on Atmospheric Measurements from Space (ESAMS), ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands, 18-21 January 1999, ESA WPP-161, Vol. 2, 543-547, 1999.

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, J. Granville, P. Gerard, P.C. Simon, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, and A. Sarkissian, Geophysical validation of ERS-2 GOME ozone products by means of correlative observations from the NDSC, in Proc. European Symposium on Atmospheric Measurements from Space (ESAMS), ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands, 18-21 January 1999, ESA WPP-161, Vol. 2, 595-601, 1999.

Lambert, J.-C., J. Granville, M. Van Roozendael, J.-F. Müller, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, and A. Sarkissian, A pseudo-global correlative study of ERS-2 GOME NO2 data with ground-, balloon-, and space-based observations, in Proc. European Symposium on Atmospheric Measurements from Space (ESAMS), ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands, 18-21 January 1999, ESA WPP-161, Vol. 1, 217-224, 1999.

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, M. De Mazière, P.C. Simon, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, A. Sarkissian, and J.F. Gleason, Investigation of pole-to-pole performances of spaceborne atmospheric chemistry sensors with the NDSC, J. Atmos. Sci., 56, pp. 176-193, 1999.

1998

Lambert, J.-C., and P.C. Simon, Geophysical Comparison of the GOME Data Processors GDP 2.0 and 2.3 by Means of Ground-based Networks, in GOME Data Improvement Validation Report, B. Greco (Eds.) - ESA/ESRIN APP/AEF/17/GB (58 pp.), pp. 34-42, August 1998.

Lambert, J.-C. , M. Van Roozendael, P.C. Simon, M. De Mazière, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, A. Sarkissian, S.B. Andersen, P. Eriksen, B.A. Kåstad Høiskar, W. Arlander, K. Karlsen Tørnkvist, V. Dorokhov, and E. Kyrö, GOME and TOMS Total Ozone in Northern Winter 1996/1997: Comparison with SAOZ/UV-visible Ground-based Measurements in the Arctic and at Middle Latitude, in Polar Stratospheric Ozone 1997, N.R.P. Harris, I. Kilbane-Dawe, and G.T. Amanatidis (Eds.), Air Pollution Research Report 66 (CEC DG XII), 696-699, 1998.

Lambert, J.-C., and M. De Mazière, Satellite observations of tropospheric ozone-related constituents, in Proc. OSTC Workshop on Ozone in the Troposphere: Research and Politics, June 26, 1998, Brussels, Belgium, Ed. by the Prime Minister's Services - Federal Office for Scientific, technical and Cultural Affairs, D/1999/1191/3, pp. 83-90, 1998.

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, P.C. Simon, M. De Mazière, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, and A. Sarkissian, Pole-to-pole validation of GOME level-2 products with ground-based networks, ESA Earth Observation Quarterly, 58, 6-8, March 1998.

1997

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, P. Peeters, P.C. Simon, G. Braathen, H. Claude, J. de La Noë, F. Goutail, J.-P. Pommereau, M.-F. Merienne, A. Barbe, J. Staehelin and G. Vaughan, Validation of the ERS-2 GOME ozone products with the NDSC/Alpine stations, Proc. 3rd ESA ERS Scientific Symposium, Florence, Italy, 17-20 March 1997, ESA SP-414, Vol. 2, 729-732, 1997.

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, M. De Mazière, P.C. Simon, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, A. Sarkissian, L. Denis, V. Dorokhov, P. Eriksen, E. Kyrö, J. Leveau, H.K. Roscoe, C.W. Tellefsen, and G. Vaughan, Pole to pole Validation of the ERS-2 GOME Level 2 Products with the SAOZ Ground-based Network, Proc. 3rd ESA ERS Scientific Symposium, Florence, Italy, 17-20 March 1997, ESA SP-414, Vol. 2, 629-636, 1997.

Van Roozendael, M., J.-C. Lambert, P.C. Simon, G. Hansen, A. Dahlback, D. De Muer, E. Schoubs, R. Koopman, H. Vanderwoerd, A. Piters, A. Barbe, H. Claude, J. de La Noë, M.-F. Merienne and J. Staehelin, Ground-based validation of GOME total ozone measurements by means of Dobson, Brewer and GUV instruments, in Atmospheric Ozone - Proc. 18th Quad. Ozone Symp., L'Aquila, Italy, 1996, R. Bojkov and G. Visconti (Eds.), Vol. II, pp. 665-668, 1997.

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, J. Granville, P. Gerard, P. Peeters, P.C. Simon, H. Claude and J. Staehelin, Comparison of the GOME ozone and NO2 total amounts at mid-latitude with ground-based zenith-sky measurements, in Atmospheric Ozone - Proc. 18th Quad. Ozone Symp., L'Aquila, Italy, 1996, R. Bojkov and G. Visconti (Eds.), Vol. I, pp. 301-304, 1997.

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, P.C. Simon, M. De Mazière, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, A. Sarkissian, L. Denis, V. Dorhokov, P. Eriksen, E. Kyrö, J. Leveau, H.K. Roscoe, C. W. Tellefsen, and G. Vaughan, Validation of the ERS-2 GOME total ozone measurements with the SAOZ ground-based network during the period: 28 June-17 August 1996, in Atmospheric Ozone - Proc. 18th Quad. Ozone Symp., L'Aquila, Italy, 1996, R. Bojkov and G. Visconti (Eds.), Vol. I, pp. 297-300, 1997.

1996

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, P.C. Simon, M. De Mazière, J.-P. Pommereau, F. Goutail, A. Sarkissian, L. Denis, V. Dorhokov, P. Eriksen, E. Kyrö, J. Leveau, H.K. Roscoe, G. Vaughan and C. Wahlstrøm, GOME Products Validation with the SAOZ Network, Proc. GOME Geophysical Validation Final Results Workshop, 24-26 January 1996, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, ESA WPP-108, 123-131, 1996.

Lambert, J.-C., M. Van Roozendael, P. Peeters, P.C. Simon, M.F. Merienne, A. Barbe, H. Claude, J. de La Noë and J. Staehelin, GOME Ozone Total Amounts Validation by Ground-based Observations Performed at the NDSC/Alpine Stations, Proc. GOME Geophysical Validation Final Results Workshop, 24-26 January 1996, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, ESA WPP-108, 115-121, 1996.

Links

BIRA-IASB Homepage
	The Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (IASB/BIRA, Belgium)
GOME related sites
	The DLR/DFD (Germany)
	The European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN,Italy)
	GOME website of the European Space Agency
	GOME Documentation of the European Space Agency (ESA)
	The GOME Fast Delivery Service of the KNMI (KNMI ,The Netherlands)
	The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (SAO, USA)
	The Network for Detection of Stratospheric Change
	NILU (Norwegian Institute for Air Research), Kjeller, Norway
	Belgian Federal Office for Science Policy (BELSPO)
	QUILT project
	Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI, The Netherlands)
	The Space Research Organization Netherlands (SRON, The Netherlands)
	St.-Petersburg State University (SPbSU)
	TEMIS project
	TROPOSAT project
	The University of Bremen (IUP/IFE, Germany)
	The University of Heidelberg (IUP Heidelberg, Germany)