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sentinel-5p-l2-o3-pr-offl·dataset

Vertical ozone profile, standard product (Copernicus)

Sentinel-5P Level 2 Ozone Profile (OFFL)
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In plain English

What it measures. Gives ozone amounts at 33 layers of the atmosphere, showing how the gas is stacked from low to high altitude.

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

How & where you'd use it. Supports research distinguishing harmful ground-level ozone from the protective high-altitude ozone layer.

What's measured

SentinelCopernicusESASatelliteGlobalAtmosphereL2O3-PROFFLEUEC

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 O3 PR products, which contains ozone concentration for 33 levels in the atmosphere.

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-o3-pr-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.