SIFTER v3 Sun-Induced Fluorescence retrievals from GOME2 (METOP-C)	Sun-Induced Fluorescence
archive GOME-2A:   monthly mean archive GOME-2B:   monthly mean archive GOME-2C:   monthly mean

The dataset presented here is the monthly level-3 record
of the Sun-Induced Fluorescence at a 0.5° by 0.5° grid
for the GOME-2C instrument.

Publication:

Juliëtte C.S. Anema (2026)
Improving solar-induced fluorescence retrieval from GOME-2 and TROPOMI for long-term vegetation monitoring, PhD thesis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands -- Chapter 5.
doi: 10.18174/681681

 

Data citation:

Anema, J. C. S., Boersma, K. F., Tilstra, L. G., and Tuinder, O. N. E. (2026),
SIFTER solar-induced vegetation fluorescence data from GOME-2C (Version 3.0) [Data set],
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).
doi: 10.21944/gome2c-sifter-v3-solar-induced-fluorescence [CC BY license]

 

Data download

Monthly mean files are available for the period January 2019 – November 2024.
Size of individual month files is about 7-9MB and of 'all months' zip file is about 80-100MB

year	individual months	all months
2019	01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12	zip file
2020	01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12	zip file
2021	01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12	zip file
2022	01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12	zip file
2023	01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12	zip file
2024	01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12	zip file

 
 

Acknowledgement

If you use a SIFTER Sun-Induced Fluorescence dataset for a publication (research or otherwise), please refer to the publication by citing the data set DOI as listed above and/or include the following acknowledgment: "We acknowledge the free use of SIFTER Sun-Induced Fluorescence data from the (GOME-2) sensor from www.temis.nl." We would appreciate receiving a copy of your publication, by contacting us via the contact form. The GOME-2 SIF data are provided by KNMI in the framework of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Atmospheric Composition Monitoring (AC SAF).

last modified: 23 July 2026
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