MOPITT Level 2
Entry Title: MOPITT Derived CO (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008
Entry ID: MOP02T_8
Tropospheric Composition
Description
MOP02T_8 is the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) Derived Carbon Monoxide (CO) (Thermal Infrared Radiances) version 8 product. It consists of geo-located, retrieved CO profiles and total column amounts for CO. Ancillary data concerning surface properties and cloud conditions at the locations of the retrieved parameters are also included. Each retrieval is accompanied by an estimated error. MOPITT was successfully launched into sun-synchronous polar orbit aboard Terra, NASA's first Earth Observing System spacecraft, on December 18, 1999. The MOPITT instrument was constructed by a consortium of Canadian companies and funded by the Space Science Division of the Canadian Space Agency. Data collection for this product was completed in March of 2020.
Publications which Cite this Collection
Rodionova, N. V. (2023). Optical Characteristics of Aerosol and Carbon Monoxide Content in the Atmosphere over Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia in 2010–2021.
Martínez-Alonso, Sara; Deeter, Merritt N.; Baier, Bianca C.; McKain, Kathryn; Worden, Helen; Borsdorff, Tobias; Sweeney, Colm; Aben, Ilse (2022). Evaluation of MOPITT and TROPOMI carbon monoxide retrievals using AirCore in situ vertical profiles.
Buchholz, Rebecca R.; Worden, Helen M.; Park, Mijeong; Francis, Gene; Deeter, Merritt N.; Edwards, David P.; Emmons, Louisa K.; Gaubert, Benjamin; Gille, John; Martínez-Alonso, Sara; Tang, Wenfu; Kumar, Rajesh; Drummond, James R.; Clerbaux, Cathy; George, Maya; Coheur, Pierre-François; Hurtmans, Daniel; Bowman, Kevin W.; Luo, Ming; Payne, Vivienne H.; Worden, John R.; Chin, Mian; Levy, Robert C.; Warner, Juying; Wei, Zigang; Kulawik, Susan S. (2022). Air pollution trends measured from Terra: CO and AOD over industrial, fire-prone, and background regions.
Deeter, Merritt; Francis, Gene; Gille, John; Mao, Debbie; Martínez-Alonso, Sara; Worden, Helen; Ziskin, Dan; Drummond, James; Commane, Róisín; Diskin, Glenn; McKain, Kathryn (2021). The MOPITT Version 9 CO product: sampling enhancements and validation.
Martínez-Alonso, Sara; Deeter, Merritt; Worden, Helen; Borsdorff, Tobias; Aben, Ilse; Commane, Róisin; Daube, Bruce; Francis, Gene; George, Maya; Landgraf, Jochen; Mao, Debbie; McKain, Kathryn; Wofsy, Steven (2018). 1.5 years of TROPOMI CO measurements: comparisons to MOPITT and ATom.
Resources and Documentation
DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE
MOPITT Level 2 Viewer Tool Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar)
GET RELATED VISUALIZATION
GOTO WEB TOOL
MOPITT Search and Subsetting Web Application
PROFESSIONAL HOME PAGE
University of Toronto MOPITT Overview
PROJECT HOME PAGE
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
- NASA EOS ATB Documents: MOPITT
ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)
- ASDC List of MOPITT Quality Statements
- Quality Summary: MOPITT Level 2, Version 8 (V8; L2V18.0.x), first released December, 2018
DATA QUALITY
- ASDC Data and Information for MOPITT
- Overview of MOPITT Data at the ASDC
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
- Examples on how to access and visualize various NASA HDF/HDF-EOS files using Python (pyhdf/h5py), NCL, MATLAB®, and IDL®, NCL, MATLAB®, and IDL®
- L3 Harris Geospatial Forum: Reading multiple HDF/NCDF files in IDL running under Fedora 13
HOW-TO
- Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: On The Trail of Global Pollution Drift
MICRO ARTICLE
PUBLICATIONS
- MOPITT Version 8 Product User's Guide
USER'S GUIDE
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- ATMOSPHERIC CARBON MONOXIDE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
- SURFACE PRESSURE
- ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
- WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
- CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
- WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Data Distribution
File Format(s):
HDF-EOS5
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Spatial Information
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal Vertical
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian
Locations
GEOGRAPHIC REGION GLOBAL
Temporal Information
Temporal Coverage: 2000-03-03 - Present