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TRPSYL2O3OMIFS·v1·dataset

Ozone in the air, quick summary (Aura)

TROPESS OMI-Aura L2 Ozone for Forward Stream, Summary Product V1 (TRPSYL2O3OMIFS) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 2 active
In plain English

What it measures. A condensed summary of how ozone is distributed from the ground up through the atmosphere, layer by layer, along with how confident the measurement is.

How it's made. Retrieved from the OMI instrument on NASA's Aura satellite using an optimal-estimation method that combines the raw signal with prior knowledge to reconstruct the vertical profile.

How & where you'd use it. Supports studies of air quality and atmospheric chemistry by showing where ozone sits in the air column over any spot on Earth.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › OXYGEN COMPOUNDS › ATMOSPHERIC OZONE

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2004-10-01 → ongoing
  • Measured byAura (OMI)
  • 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 TROPESS OMI-Aura L2 Ozone for Forward Stream, Summary Product contains the vertical distribution of the retrieved atmospheric state of ozone (O3), and formal uncertainties measured by the OMI instrument on the EOS Aura satellite. The forward stream standard product is global for the time period from 2021-02-01 to present. The NASA TRopospheric Ozone and Precursors from Earth System Sounding (TROPESS) project, uses an optimal estimation algorithm, known as the MUlti-SpEctra, MUlti-SpEcies, Multi-SEnsors (MUSES). The data files are written in the netCDF version 4 file format, and each file contains one day of data. The data have a spatial resolution of 13 km x 24 km (OMI nadir FOV), and are reported at 26 vertical levels from the surface to 0.1 hPa. The principal investigator for the TROPESS project is Kevin W. Bowman.

Get the data

trpsyl2o3omifs_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="TRPSYL2O3OMIFS",
    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.