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MOP02J·v9·dataset

Carbon monoxide pollution in the air (MOPITT)

MOPITT Derived CO (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009
atmosphere NASA LARC_CLOUD Level 2 HDF-EOS5
In plain English

What it measures. Maps carbon monoxide, a common air pollutant, both as vertical profiles through the atmosphere and as total amounts in a column of air, each with an error estimate.

How it's made. Derived from the MOPITT instrument on NASA's Terra satellite, which jointly uses its near-infrared and thermal-infrared channels to retrieve the carbon monoxide values.

How & where you'd use it. Helps track pollution from fires, traffic, and industry, and shows how carbon monoxide spreads and travels through the atmosphere over time.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRYATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDSATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE › SURFACE TEMPERATUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC PRESSUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE › SURFACE PRESSUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPORATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR › WATER VAPOR INDICATORSATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR › WATER VAPOR INDICATORS › WATER VAPORATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS › ATMOSPHERIC CARBON MONOXIDE › CARBON MONOXIDE PROFILES

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2000-03-03 → 2025-02-01
  • Measured byTerra (MOPITT)
  • Processing levelLevel 2
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • FormatsHDF-EOS5
  • 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

MOP02J_9 is the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) Derived Carbon Monoxide (CO) (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) version 9 product. The "J" refers to the Joint use of the Thermal (T) and NIR (N) channels in the retrieval. 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. An estimated error accompanies each retrieval. 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.

Get the data

mop02j_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="MOP02J",
    version="9",
    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 LARC_CLOUD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.