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OMPS_NPP_LP_L1G_EV·v2.6·dataset

Raw light by altitude for ozone profiling (Suomi-NPP)

OMPS-NPP L1G LP Radiance EV Wavelength-Altitude Grid swath orbital 3slit V2.6 (OMPS_NPP_LP_L1G_EV) at GES DISC
land NASA GES_DISC Level 1B active
In plain English

What it measures. Calibrated readings of the light coming from Earth's atmosphere, organized by both wavelength and altitude, spanning ultraviolet through near-infrared. These are raw light measurements, not finished ozone amounts.

How it's made. Collected by the OMPS Limb-Profiler on the Suomi-NPP satellite, which looks sideways at the edge of the atmosphere to sample profiles from the ground up to about 80 km.

How & where you'd use it. A foundational input for building vertical ozone profiles; people typically use the derived ozone products rather than this raw light-by-altitude data.

What's measured

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › ULTRAVIOLET WAVELENGTHS › ULTRAVIOLET RADIANCESPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS › VISIBLE RADIANCESPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › INFRARED WAVELENGTHS › INFRARED RADIANCE

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2011-11-07 → ongoing
  • Measured bySuomi-NPP (OMPS)
  • Processing levelLevel 1B
  • Spatial extent-180, -84, 180, 84
  • StatusACTIVE

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

The OMPS-NPP L1G LP Radiance EV Wavelength-Altitude Grid swath orbital 3slit product contains the calibrated earth-viewing radiances measured by the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Limb-Profiler (LP) sensor on the Suomi-NPP satellite. The LP L1G product measures radiances in the wavelength region from 280 nm to 1000 nm. Each granule contains data from the daylight portion of each orbit measured for a full day. Spatial coverage is global (-90 to 90 degrees latitude), and there are about 14.5 orbits per day each measuring three limb profiles spaced approximately 250 km in the cross-track direction. The profiles are measured from the ground up to about 80 km with a vertical resolution of the retrieved profiles of approximately 1-2 km. The data are written using the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 or HDF5.

Get the data

omps_npp_lp_l1g_ev_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="OMPS_NPP_LP_L1G_EV",
    version="2.6",
    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
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