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Description
The OMPS-NPP L2 NM Ozone (O3) Total Column swath orbital product provides total ozone measurements from the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Nadir-Mapper (NM) instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite. The total column ozone amount is derived from normalized radiances using 2 wavelength pairs 317.5 and 331.2 nm under most conditions, and 331.2 and 360 nm for high ozone and high solar zenith angle conditions. Additionally, this data product contains measurements of UV aerosol index and reflectivity at 331 nm.
Each granule contains data from the daylight portion of each orbit measured for a full day. Spatial coverage is global (-90 to 90 degrees latitude), and there are about 14.5 orbits per day, each has typically 400 swaths. The swath width of the NM is about 2800 km with 36 scenes, or pixels, with a footprint size of 50 km x 50 km at nadir. The files are written using the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 or HDF5.
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/GESDI
Concept ID
C1386443916-GES_DISC
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
71550
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Atmospheric Ozone
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Mcpeters, R. D. (2017). OMPS-NPP L2 NM Ozone (O3) Total Column swath orbital V2 [Dataset]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/0WF4HAAZ0VHK Date Accessed: 2026-10-03
@misc{mcpeters_2017,
title={OMPS-NPP L2 NM Ozone (O3) Total Column swath orbital V2},
url={https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/OMPS_NPP_NMTO3_L2_2.html},
DOI={10.5067/0WF4HAAZ0VHK},
publisher={NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center},
author={Mcpeters, Richard D.},
year={2017},
}
Mcpeters, R. D. (2017). OMPS-NPP L2 NM Ozone (O3) Total Column swath orbital V2 [Dataset]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/0WF4HAAZ0VHK Date Accessed: 2026-10-03
Mcpeters, Richard D. “OMPS-NPP L2 NM Ozone (O3) Total Column Swath Orbital V2.” NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, 2017, https://doi.org/10.5067/0WF4HAAZ0VHK. Date Accessed: 2026-10-03
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