MOPITT Satellite Carbon Monoxide Profiles V109 Beta

Ongoing data collection since the MOPITT instrument launched aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft on December 18, 1999, provides a long-term record of atmospheric carbon monoxide. This beta version 109 dataset contains geo-located retrieved carbon monoxide profiles, total column amounts, ancillary surface and cloud data, and estimated retrieval errors. The instrument was constructed by a consortium of Canadian companies and funded by the Canadian Space Agency.

Use Cases

• Analyzing global tropospheric carbon monoxide concentrations and transport patterns using geo-located retrieved profiles.
• Studying surface property and cloud condition influences on carbon monoxide retrieval accuracy via ancillary data.
• Assessing long-term trends in atmospheric carbon monoxide pollution from a continuous satellite record.
• Validating atmospheric chemistry and transport models with satellite-derived total column carbon monoxide amounts.

Strengths

• Provides a continuous global record of atmospheric carbon monoxide measurements since the instrument launch in December 1999.
• Includes estimated error values for each carbon monoxide retrieval, supporting uncertainty analysis.
• Contains ancillary data on surface properties and cloud conditions, enabling analysis of retrieval quality.

Limitations

• Dataset is an unvalidated beta product subject to recalibration, indicating data is provisional and not final.
• Key metadata such as row count, column names, and dataset size are unknown across all sources.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date, reporting both 2025-02-01 and 2026-03-12.

Provenance

Source

NASA Terra spacecraft MOPITT instrument, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.

Collection Method

Satellite remote sensing using thermal infrared radiances.

Time Range

1999-12-18 to present (ongoing)

Freshness

2026-03-12 23:20:36.168292

Geography

Global coverage from sun-synchronous polar orbit.