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OMUFPITMET·v003·dataset

Weather conditions paired with ozone readings (Aura)

GEOS-5 FP-IT Assimilation Geo-colocated to OMI/Aura UV-2 1-Orbit L2 Support Swath 13x24km V3 (OMUFPITMET) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 2 active
In plain English

What it measures. Bundles weather and atmospheric background conditions, such as surface pressure, temperature at different heights, winds, and the height of the tropopause, matched in space and time to ozone-instrument observations.

How it's made. Produced by taking NASA's GEOS-5 weather model output and lining it up with the OMI instrument's path on the Aura satellite, then trimming the file size for convenience.

How & where you'd use it. A building-block input designed mainly for the OMI team's own processing and for researchers using those products, rather than something most people would open on its own.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE › PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHTATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE › PRESSURE THICKNESSATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE › SURFACE PRESSUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE › UPPER AIR TEMPERATUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WINDS › SURFACE WINDS › U/V WIND COMPONENTSATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WINDS › UPPER LEVEL WINDS › U/V WIND COMPONENTS

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2004-10-01 → ongoing
  • Measured byAura (OMI) · GEOS-5 (NOT APPLICABLE)
  • Processing levelLevel 2
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • StatusACTIVE

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 GEOS-5 FP-IT Assimilation Geo-colocated to OMI/Aura UV-2 1-Orbit L2 Support Swath 13x24km (OMUFPITMET) provides selected parameters from GEOS-5 Forward Processing for Instrument Teams (FP-IT) assimilated product produced by the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) co-located in space and time with the OMI UV-2 swath. The fields in this product include surface pressure, vertical temperature profiles, surface and vertical wind profiles, tropopause pressure, boundary layer top pressure, and surface geopotenial. The OMI team also provides a corresponding product for the OMI VIS swath, OMVFPITMET. The product has been generated for convenient use by the OMI/Aura team in their L2 algorithms, and for research where those L2 products are used. The original GEOS-5 FP-IT data are reported on a 0.625 deg longitude by 0.5 deg latitude grid, whereas the OMI UV-2 spatial resolution is 13km x 24km at nadir. To reduce the size of each orbital file, FP-IT data fields with a vertical dimension of 72 layers have been reduced to 47 layers in OMUFPITMET by combining layers above the troposphere. The OMUFPITMET files are in netCDF4 format which is compatible with most HDF5 readers and tools. Each file is approximately 45mb in size. The lead for this product is Zachary Fasnacht of SSAI. Joanna Joiner is the responsible NASA official.

Get the data

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

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="OMUFPITMET",
    version="003",
    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.