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JPL-o3 -hourly-v1·dataset

Hourly Ozone Levels From NASA JPL

JPL Ozone (O3
atmosphere NASA VEDA active COG
In plain English

What it measures. Hourly amounts of ozone (a gas in the atmosphere) across the mapped area.

How it's made. Produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and delivered as efficient cloud-friendly map files.

How & where you'd use it. Helps researchers track ozone, which affects both air quality near the ground and protection from harmful sunlight high up.

What's measured

JPLo3 hourly

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span— → ongoing
  • Spatial extent-130, -60, 20, 50
  • FormatsCOG

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

The JPL data provides ozone (O3) hourly. Data are stored in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format for efficient access.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("JPL-o3 -hourly-v1")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).