Oxford-RAL IASI Group

Meeting Notes

2014 [1] [2]; 2015 [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]; 2016 [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]; 2017 [21]; 2018 [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] 2020 [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33]

Next Meeting #34: tbd

Publications

Taylor, I. et al (2018)

Exploring the Utility of IASI for Monitoring Volcanic SO2 Emissions

J. Geophys. Res (Atmos) , 123, 5588–5606

doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027109

Siddans, R. et al (2017)

Global height-resolved methane retrievals from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) on MetOp

Atmos. Meas. Tech. 10 2687–2702

doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2687-2017

Vincent, R. A. and A. Dudhia (2017)

Fast Retrievals of tropospheric carbonyl sulfide with IASI

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 2981–3000

doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2981-2017

Vincent, R. A. and A. Dudhia (2017)

Fast radiative transfer using monochromatic look-up tables

J.Q.S.R.T., 186 254–264

doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.04.011

Carboni, E. et al (2016)

The Vertical Distribution of Volcanic SO2 Plumes measured by IASI

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 4343–4367

doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4343-2016

Ventress, L. et al (2016)

Retrieval of Ash Properties from IASI Measurements

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5407–5422

doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5407-2016

Vincent, R. A. et al (2015)

Vertical level selection for temperature and trace gas profile retrievals using IASI

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 2359–1369 Vincent et al, AMTD, doi:10.5194/amtd-8-2591-2015

doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2359-2015

Reports

• Global Distribution of Carbonyl Sulphide with IASI (E Phua, MPhys project, May 2020)
• Scaled Linear Retrieval (A Dudhia, 12 Mar 2020)
• Representing Systematic Errors in Retrievals (A Dudhia, 4 Jan 2018).

Tools

• Atmospheric Infrared Spectrum Atlas
• RFM (Reference Forward Model)
• read_l1c (IDL procedure to read IASI L1C .nat)
• read_l2_v6 (IDL procedure to read v6 IASI L2 .nat, Oct'14 onwards)

Data

• IASI NRT SO2 (live web-page)
• IASI CH4 2007-present (CEDA catalogue)

Documents

Local versions of EUMETSAT documentation

Generic Product Format Specification v7E (EPS.GGS.SPE.96167 30Nov10)

Describes generic data structures and formats

IASI Level 1: Product Guide v4C (EUM/OPS-EPS/MAN/04/0032 3Dec14)

Gives v4/v5 measurement data record structure

IASI Level 1 Product Format Specification v9E (EUM.EPS.SYS.SPE.990003 14Dec11)

Gives most information on IASI L1C file structure

IASI Level 2: Product Format Specification (EPS.MIS.SPE.980760 8Jun17)

Describes v6 native format L2 data structure

IASI Level 2 Product Guide v3E (EUM/OPS-EPS/MAN/04/0033 11Jul17)

Describes v6 native format L2 data (since Oct 2014)

IASI Level 2 Product Guide v2G (EUM/OPS-EPS/MAN/04/0033 19Jul12)

Describes v5 native format L2 data (up to Sep 2014)

NRT IASI CO Product User Manual (SAF/O3M/ULB/PUM/001 6Feb17)

Description of FORLI CO component of L2 data

NRT IASI Brescia SO2 Product User Manual (SAF/AC/ULB/PUM/002 26Mar18)

Description of Brescia SO2 component of L2 data