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Global carbon monoxide map, standard product (Copernicus)

Sentinel-5P Level 2 Carbon Monoxide (OFFL)
atmosphere ESA ESA Copernicus active
In plain English

What it measures. Shows how much carbon monoxide is in the atmosphere worldwide, at high spatial detail.

How it's made. Built from the TROPOMI instrument on ESA Copernicus's Sentinel-5P satellite as a Level-2 offline product, processed for improved accuracy.

How & where you'd use it. Used to monitor air pollution and combustion sources, and to study how carbon monoxide travels around the globe.

What's measured

SentinelCopernicusESASatelliteGlobalAtmosphereL2COOFFLEUEC

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2018-04-01 → 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 CO products, which contains high-resolution imagery of carbon monoxide concentrations.

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-co-offl"],   # 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.