Version 9 data product contains daily mean-gridded versions of Level 2 carbon monoxide profile and total column retrievals. The instrument was constructed by Canadian companies and funded by the Canadian Space Agency. MOPITT was launched aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft on December 18, 1999.
Use Cases
- Analyze daily mean-gridded carbon monoxide total column retrievals across the globe.
- Study the spatial distribution of tropospheric CO profiles from the gridded Level 2 data.
- Utilize the included averaging kernels for each retrieval to assess retrieval sensitivity.
- Monitor long-term trends in carbon monoxide concentrations using the daily time-series.
- Combine Thermal and NIR channel retrievals for a joint analysis of CO levels.
Strengths
- Data originates from the MOPITT instrument aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft, a long-term Earth Observing System platform.
- Includes averaging kernels gridded in the Level 3 files, providing information on retrieval quality.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and file size are unknown.
- The raw description indicates a Data Quality Statement exists, suggesting inherent limitations in the retrievals are documented but not detailed here.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA Earthdata platform, provided by LARC_CLOUD.
- Collection Method
- Data gathered by the MOPITT instrument via satellite remote sensing of near and thermal infrared radiances.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global coverage from a sun-synchronous polar orbit.