STANDARDIZED DATA ACCESS SERVICES FOR GOME-2/METOP ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GAS PRODUCTS

Established for land use applications, standardized data access services such as the Web Map Service (WMS) and the Web Coverage Service (WCS) are widely used to provide interoperable access to any kind of earth observation data and any other kind of geo-referenced information. These existing service standards come along with multiple data sources and software tools, making the interpretation and combination of different data layers for various purposes at global and regional scale very easy. However, the use of these standards in the atmospheric data domain is still very restricted. This paper presents DLR's initiative of developing standardized data access services for atmospheric trace gas data products continuously processed from GOME-2/MetOp data.