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TRPSCRECOBM2D·v1·dataset

Carbon monoxide from wildfires near the ground, monthly

TROPESS Chemical Reanalysis Surface Biomass Burning CO emissions Monthly 2-dimensional Product V1 (TRPSCRECOBM2D) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 4 active
In plain English

What it measures. Monthly estimates of how much carbon monoxide is released near the ground specifically from biomass burning, such as wildfires and agricultural fires.

How it's made. Not a direct satellite snapshot; it comes from a chemical reanalysis that blends measurements from multiple satellite sensors into a computer model to estimate emissions, covering 2005 to 2021.

How & where you'd use it. Useful for studying air pollution from fires, tracking how fire emissions have changed year to year, and supplying realistic inputs to air-quality and climate models.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS › ATMOSPHERIC CARBON MONOXIDE

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2005-01-01 → ongoing
  • Measured byREANALYSIS MODELS (NOT APPLICABLE)
  • Processing levelLevel 4
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90
  • StatusCOMPLETE

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 TROPESS Chemical Reanalysis Surface Biomass Burning CO emissions Monthly 2-dimensional Product contains carbon monoxide emissions from biomass burning sources. The data are part of the Tropospheric Chemical Reanalysis v2 (TCR-2) for the period 2005-2021. TCR-2 uses JPL's Multi-mOdel Multi-cOnstituent Chemical (MOMO-Chem) data assimilation framework that simultaneously optimizes both concentrations and emissions of multiple species from multiple satellite sensors. The data files are written in the netCDF version 4 file format, and each file contains a year of data at monthly resolution, and a spatial resolution of 1.125 x 1.125 degrees. The principal investigator for the TCR-2 data is Miyazaki, Kazuyuki.

Get the data

trpscrecobm2d_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="TRPSCRECOBM2D",
    version="1",
    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.