ASDC | MOP03TM

MOPITT Level 3

Entry Title: MOPITT Beta CO gridded monthly means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109

Entry ID: MOP03TM_109

Tropospheric Composition

Description

MOP03TM_109 is the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) Beta CO gridded monthly means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) version 109 product. It is an unvalidated beta product subject to recalibration, contains monthly mean gridded versions of the daily Level 2 CO profile and total column retrievals. The averaging kernels associated with each retrieval are also gridded and included in the Level 3 files. Version 109 products are beta versions for version 9 products, they are unvalidated beta products subject to recalibration. V9 is an improvement over V8 because of several scientific enhancements. These include: A revision of the cloud filter to allow through a much higher number of pixels that were previously considered cloudy, a minor correction to the Forward Model to account for long-term drift of the pressure in the gas cell, and a careful analysis of the NIR calibration process which reduces discontinuities associated with calibration events. Data collection for this product is ongoing.

For a description of the file contents, refer to the File Spec Document. The MOPITT Level 2 Data Quality Statement contains additional information about the quality and the limitations of the retrievals. [From the MOPITT version 3 Level 3 Data Quality Summary] 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.

DOI

10.5067/TERRA/MOPITT/MOP03TM_L3.109

Citation Styles for this Dataset

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

NASA EOS ATB Documents: MOPITT

DATA QUALITY

ASDC List of MOPITT Quality Statements

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

ASDC Data and Information for MOPITT
Overview of MOPITT Data at the ASDC

HOW-TO

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®

MICRO ARTICLE

Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: On The Trail of Global Pollution Drift

PUBLICATIONS

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)

USER'S GUIDE

MOPITT Version 9 Product User's Guide

From GCMD Science Keywords:

AIR QUALITY
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS
ATMOSPHERIC CARBON MONOXIDE > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS

Carbon Monoxide (CO)

Data Distribution

File Format(s):

HDF-EOS5

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal Vertical
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

GLOBAL

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2018-03-01 - Present

Platforms

Earth Observation Satellites

Terra

Earth Observing System, TERRA (AM-1)

MOPITT

Measurements of Pollution In The Troposphere

2.3um Radiometer 2.4um Radiometer 4.7um Radiometer

Metadata Dates

Created on 2020-12-23

Last updated on 2022-06-16