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sentinel-5p-l2-cloud-rpro·dataset

Cloud data, reprocessed for consistency (Copernicus)

Sentinel-5P Level 2 Cloud (RPRO)
atmosphere ESA ESA Copernicus active
In plain English

What it measures. Captures cloud properties (such as amount and altitude) seen by the satellite, as technical parameters.

How it's made. Produced from the TROPOMI sensor on ESA Copernicus's Sentinel-5P satellite, reprocessed as a Level-2 product so the archive is uniform over time.

How & where you'd use it. Primarily a behind-the-scenes input used to clean up the satellite's pollution measurements where clouds interfere.

What's measured

3500mAtmosphereCLOUDCopernicusECESAEUGlobalL2L2__CLOUD_RPROSatelliteSentinelSentinel-5

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2018-04-30 → ongoing
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90

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

This Collection provides Sentinel-5P Level-2 Cloud products, which contains high-resolution imagery of cloud parameters.

Get the data

copernicus_access.py
# ESA Copernicus Data Space — open STAC API (free account)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1")
search = cat.search(
    collections=["sentinel-5p-l2-cloud-rpro"],   # add _cog or _nc for a format variant
    bbox=(-10, 35, 30, 60),             # your area (W,S,E,N)
    datetime="2024-01-01/2024-12-31",
)
items = list(search.items())            # then read assets with rioxarray / xarray
Browsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.