TROPOMI XCH4 retrievals from the University of Bremen TROPOMI/CH4-WFMD

TROPOMI XCH4 retrievals from the University of Bremen TROPOMI/CH4-WFMD#

Description#

This plugin reads TROPOMI XCH4 retrievals as provided by the University of Bremen. Data can be downloaded here: `https://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/carbon_ghg/products/tropomi_wfmd/`__.

The data is described in Schneising et al. (2019)

YAML arguments#

The following arguments are used to configure the plugin. pyCIF will return an exception at the initialization if mandatory arguments are not specified, or if any argument does not fit accepted values or type:

Optional arguments#

crop_domain : optional

Domain where to keep data. Data outside are discarded

Argument structure:
xmin : float, mandatory

West boundary

xmax : float, mandatory

East boundary

ymin : float, mandatory

South boundary

ymax : float, mandatory

North boundary

nlayers : float, optional, default 20

Number of layers expected in the averaging kernels

obs_duration : float, optional, default 0.016666666666666666

Duration of each observation

stationID : str, optional, default “TROPOMI”

Name to put in the ‘station’ column of the output parsed datastore

networkID : str, optional, default “WFMD”

Name to put in the ‘network’ column of the output parsed datastore

parameter : str, optional, default “CH4”

Name of the species to put in the ‘parameter’ column of the output parsed datastore

YAML template#

Please find below a template for a YAML configuration:

 1obsparser:
 2  plugin:
 3    name: TROPOMI
 4    version: CH4-WFMD
 5    type: obsparser
 6
 7  # Optional arguments
 8  crop_domain:
 9    xmin: XXXXX  # float
10    xmax: XXXXX  # float
11    ymin: XXXXX  # float
12    ymax: XXXXX  # float
13  nlayers: XXXXX  # float
14  obs_duration: XXXXX  # float
15  stationID: XXXXX  # str
16  networkID: XXXXX  # str
17  parameter: XXXXX  # str