Water vapour profiles from WAVAS SAtellite component in HARmonized format (WAVAS_SAHAR) - Version 2

This is the Version 2 of databank of satellite vertical profiles of the water vapour, that have participated in SPARC WAVAS assessment, in a harmonized format, WAVAS_SAHAR. All vertically-resolved satellite measurements of the tropospheric and stratospheric water vapour in the time period between 1984 and 2018 are included. The databank consists of water vapour profiles retrieved from each instrument, which are screened for invalid data according to recommendations of instruments’ teams, then transformed into a common unit and interpolated on a common grid. The data versions included are those existing at the moment of WAVAS exercise, hence not always the most recent at the time of publishing. The only difference of version 2 of the databank to the initial version of WAVAS-SAHAR is the MLS entry on ALT grid : in the version 2 the regridding was performed using the geometrical altitudes from Derived Meteorological Products (DMPs) for MLS profiles.