MOPITT Derived CO (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008

Description

MOP02T_8 is the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) Derived Carbon Monoxide (CO) (Thermal Infrared Radiances) version 8 product. It consists of geo-located, retrieved CO profiles and total column amounts for CO. Ancillary data concerning surface properties and cloud conditions at the locations of the retrieved parameters are also included. Each retrieval is accompanied by an estimated error. MOPITT was successfully launched into sun-synchronous polar orbit aboard Terra, NASA's first Earth Observing System spacecraft, on December 18, 1999. The MOPITT instrument was constructed by a consortium of Canadian companies and funded by the Space Science Division of the Canadian Space Agency. Data collection for this product was completed in March of 2020.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 NASA Worldview https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
21 Examples on how to access and visualize various NASA HDF/HDF-EOS files using Python (pyhdf/h5py), NCL, MATLAB®, and IDL®, NCL, MATLAB®, and IDL® https://hdfeos.org/zoo/
21 L3 Harris Geospatial Forum: Reading multiple HDF/NCDF files in IDL running under Fedora 13 https://www.harrisgeospatial.com/Support/Forums/aft/2540
21 MOPITT Search and Subsetting Web Application https://subset.larc.nasa.gov/mopitt/
33 MOPITT Version 8 Product User's Guide - December 2018 https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/mopitt/v8_users_guide_201812.pdf
33 Quality Summary: MOPITT Level 2, Version 8 (V8; L2V18.0.x), first released December, 2018 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/mopitt/quality_summaries/MOPV8_L2_DQ_statement.pdf
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Carbon Monoxide from Tropical Fires : Natural Hazards - The Terra MOPITT sensor observed large plumes of carbon monoxide produced by biomass burning in South America and Africa in early August 2004. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/13721/carbon-monoxide-from-tropical-fires
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FTERRA%2FMOPITT%2FMOP02T_L2.008
21 NASA EOS ATB Documents: MOPITT https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd-category/48
21 U.S. MOPITT project home page https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt
21 DOI data set landing page for MOP02T_8 https://doi.org/10.5067/TERRA/MOPITT/MOP02T_L2.008
21 ASDC Data and Information for MOPITT https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/MOPITT
21 NASA Earthdata Forum - MOPITT Project Specific Forum https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/MOPITT
33 Overview of MOPITT Data at the ASDC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/mopitt/guide/ASDC_MOPITT_Overview_2015.pdf
21 Terra Instrument home page https://terra.nasa.gov/
21 University of Toronto MOPITT Overview https://mopitt.physics.utoronto.ca/
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for MOP02T_8 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/MOPITT/MOP02T.008/
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT Views Carbon Monoxide Concentration, there were widespread wildfires across Montana and Idaho. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/852/mopitt-views-carbon-monoxide-concentration
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT Views North America : Image of the Day - Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere, MOPITT, measures two important pollutants in the Earth's atmosphere—carbon monoxide (CO) and methane. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/559/mopitt-views-north-america
21 NASA Earthdata Article: Nature's contribution: Researchers investigate how much wildfires contribute to pollution, and how far this pollution can travel - By Jane Beitler https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/nature-s-contribution
21 MOPITT Level 2 Viewer Software Readme File https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/mopitt/tools/README_MOPITT_L2Viewer.txt
45 MOPITT Level 2 Viewer Tool Software Package - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/mopitt/tools/MOPITT_L2Viewer.tar
21 ASDC List of MOPITT Quality Statements https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/mopitt/mopitt_quality_statements.html
21 MOPITT Visualizations https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/visualization
21 TERRA Overview https://terra.nasa.gov/?section=60
21 Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: On The Trail of Global Pollution Drift https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/on-the-trail-of-global-pollution-drift
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Fires and Thick Smoke over South America : Natural Hazards - Places where MOPITT could not collect enough data to make an estimate of carbon monoxide (probably due to clouds) are gray. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/19011/fires-and-thick-smoke-over-south-america
21 Earthdata Search for MOP02T_8 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1575974115-LARC
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT First Light Image : Image of the Day - MOPITT measures radiances in several channels to determine the amount of carbon monoxide (CO) and methane in the atmosphere. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/533/mopitt-first-light-image
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia : Natural Hazards - Data taken by the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite have been combined for 6 days from January 15-20, 2003 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/10775/bushfires-raging-in-southeast-australia
21 Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC): Giovanni - Interactive Visualization and Analysis software https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/
21 OPeNDAP data access for MOP02T_8 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/MOPITT/MOP02T.008/contents.html
21 NASA Langley Article: Fourteen Years of Carbon Monoxide from MOPITT, which has truly unlocked a pathway for groundbreaking studies of air pollution transport and atmospheric chemical processes. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/longstanding-carbon-monoxide-measuring-instrument-mopitt-celebrated/
21 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Article: Unexpected slowdown of US pollutant emission reduction in the past decade (Ground and satellite observations show that air pollution regulations in the United States (US) have resulted in substantial reductions in emissions and corresponding improvements in air quality over the last several decades) https://www.pnas.org/content/115/20/5099

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  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-chemistry
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • earth-science

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