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GOME_MINDS_NO2·v1.1·dataset

Nitrogen dioxide pollution at different altitudes (GOME)

GOME/ERS-2 NO2 Tropospheric, Stratospheric and Total Columns MINDS 1-Orbit L2 Swath 40 km x 320 km V1.1 (GOME_MINDS_NO2) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 2
In plain English

What it measures. Amounts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air, split into the lower atmosphere (troposphere), the upper atmosphere (stratosphere), and the total column, from the GOME instrument. Each measurement covers a large patch of sky roughly 40 by 320 kilometers.

How it's made. Derived from the GOME instrument on the ERS-2 satellite as part of a NASA effort to build consistent, decades-long pollution records by applying a common algorithm across many satellites.

How & where you'd use it. Supports long-term studies of how nitrogen-oxide pollution has changed over the past few decades, as part of a multi-satellite record designed for reliable trend analysis.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › NITROGEN COMPOUNDS › ATMOSPHERIC NITRIC ACIDATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › NITROGEN COMPOUNDS › NITRIC OXIDEATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › NITROGEN COMPOUNDS › NITROGEN DIOXIDEATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › NITROGEN COMPOUNDS › NITROGEN OXIDESATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › NITROGEN COMPOUNDS › NITROUS OXIDE

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1995-06-30 → 2003-06-22
  • Measured byERS-2 (GOME)
  • Processing levelLevel 2
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

As part of the NASA's Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, this project entitled “Multi-Decadal Nitrogen Dioxide and Derived Products from Satellites (MINDS)” will develop consistent long-term global trend-quality data records spanning the last two decades, over which remarkable changes in nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions have occurred. The objective of the project Is to adapt Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) operational algorithms to other satellite instruments and create consistent multi-satellite L2 and L3 nitrogen dioxide (NO2) columns and value-added L4 surface NO2 concentrations and NOx emissions data products, systematically accounting for instrumental differences. The instruments include Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME, 1996-2003), SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY, 2002-2012), OMI (2004-present), GOME-2 (2007-present), and TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI, 2018-present). The quality assured L2-L4 products will be made available to the scientific community via the NASA GES DISC website in Climate and Forecast (CF)-compliant Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5) and netCDF formats.

Get the data

gome_minds_no2_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="GOME_MINDS_NO2",
    version="1.1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from GES_DISC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.