MOPITT CO: Monthly Gridded Carbon Monoxide Levels from Satellite

MOP03JM_9 contains monthly mean-gridded carbon monoxide (CO) profile and total column retrievals from the MOPITT instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite. The instrument was launched on December 18, 1999, and data collection for this product is ongoing. For this version, averaging kernels associated with each retrieval are also gridded and included in the Level 3 files.

Use Cases

• Modeling global atmospheric carbon monoxide transport based on monthly gridded means.
• Analyzing long-term trends in tropospheric pollution based on data collected since 1999.
• Validating chemical transport models using the included averaging kernels.
• Studying seasonal and regional variations in air quality from satellite radiance data.

Strengths

• Data collection is ongoing, providing a continuous record since the instrument's launch in 1999.
• Includes gridded averaging kernels, which are important for retrieval analysis and validation.
• Produced by NASA, a leading authority in Earth observation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The MOPITT instrument was constructed by Canadian companies and funded by the Canadian Space Agency.

Collection Method

Satellite remote sensing via the MOPITT instrument on the Terra spacecraft.

Time Range

Data collection began after the launch on December 18, 1999, and is ongoing.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-12 23:33:16.048448; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global coverage from a sun-synchronous polar orbit.