MOPITT Level 2
Entry Title: MOPITT Derived CO (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009
Entry ID: MOP02T_9
Tropospheric Composition
Description
MOP02T_9 is the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) Derived Carbon Monoxide (CO) (Thermal Infrared Radiances) version 9 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 is ongoing.
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
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
- NASA Earth Observatory Article: Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia : Natural Hazards - Data taken by the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite have been combined for 6 days from January 15-20, 2003
- NASA Earth Observatory Article: Carbon Monoxide from Tropical Fires : Natural Hazards - The Terra MOPITT sensor observed large plumes of carbon monoxide produced by biomass burning in South America and Africa in early August 2004.
- NASA Earth Observatory Article: Fires and Thick Smoke over South America : Natural Hazards - Places where MOPITT could not collect enough data to make an estimate of carbon monoxide (probably due to clouds) are gray.
- NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT First Light Image : Image of the Day - MOPITT measures radiances in several channels to determine the amount of carbon monoxide (CO) and methane in the atmosphere.
- NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT Views Carbon Monoxide Concentration, there were widespread wildfires across Montana and Idaho.
- NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT Views North America : Image of the Day - Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere, MOPITT, measures two important pollutants in the Earth's atmosphere—carbon monoxide (CO) and methane.
- NASA Earthdata Article: Nature's contribution: Researchers investigate how much wildfires contribute to pollution, and how far this pollution can travel - By Jane Beitler
- NASA Langley Article: Fourteen Years of Carbon Monoxide from MOPITT, which has truly unlocked a pathway for groundbreaking studies of air pollution transport and atmospheric chemical processes.
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Article: Unexpected slowdown of US pollutant emission reduction in the past decade (Ground and satellite observations show that air pollution regulations in the United States (US) have resulted in substantial reductions in emissions and corresponding improvements in air quality over the last several decades)
PUBLICATIONS
- MOPITT Version 9 Product User's Guide
USER'S GUIDE
Keywords
From GCMD Science Keywords:
- SURFACE TEMPERATURE
- SURFACE PRESSURE
- WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
- CARBON MONOXIDE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
- ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
- CARBON DIOXIDE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
- CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
- ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
- 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