TRPSYL2COAIRSFS: Global Carbon Monoxide Vertical Profiles from AIRS-Aqua

TROPESS AIRS-Aqua L2 Carbon Monoxide data provides the vertical distribution of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations and their formal uncertainties. It is a global, daily satellite product from February 1, 2021, to the present, with a spatial resolution of 13.5 km and profiles reported at 14 vertical levels. The data is generated using the MUSES optimal estimation algorithm from the AIRS instrument on NASA's EOS Aqua satellite.

Use Cases

• Tracking global CO pollution transport based on daily, global satellite coverage.
• Validating atmospheric chemistry models using vertical profiles at 14 pressure levels.
• Analyzing long-term trends in tropospheric CO concentrations from the 2021-present time series.
• Studying spatial patterns of CO emissions with the 13.5 km nadir spatial resolution.

Strengths

• Provides vertical profile data at 14 specific levels from the surface to 0.1 hPa.
• Offers a consistent global daily record from February 1, 2021, to the present.
• Data is processed using the sophisticated MUSES optimal estimation algorithm.
• Has a defined spatial resolution of 13.5 km at the satellite's nadir field of view.

Limitations

• Specific column names and data volume (size/rows) are not documented in the provided metadata.
• License is ambiguously described as 'other-license-specified' without clear terms.
• The principal investigator is named, but the author and organization fields are inconsistently reported or null across sources.

Provenance

Source

NASA TROPESS project, AIRS instrument on the EOS Aqua satellite.

Collection Method

Satellite remote sensing data processed with the MUSES optimal estimation algorithm.

Time Range

2021-02-01 to present

Freshness

2026-04-09 21:39:07.760989

Geography

Global