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The Collection 4, Version 5.0, Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Standard Product (OMNO2) is now available from the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. The major V5.0 updates include the use of: (1) improved Collection 4 Level-1B radiance and irradiance data in the retrieval of NO2 and O2-O2 slant columns; (2) a-priori NO2 profiles and other model-derived information from a high-resolution (~25 km) Global Modeling Initiative (GMI) simulation; (3) a new algorithm for improved de-striping and data flagging to correct for cross-track artifacts and row-anomaly; (4) updated geometry dependent surface Lambertian Equivalent Reflectivity (GLER) and consistently-retrieved O2-O2 cloud products; and (5) improved snow/ice database and treatment in the GLER, cloud, and NO2 algorithms. The details can be found in the updated OMNO2 readme document (see Documentation). The OMNO2 product contains NO2 slant column density (SCD), total NO2 vertical column density (VCD), the stratospheric and tropospheric VCDs, air mass factors (AMFs), scattering weights for AMF calculation, and other ancillary data used in the OMNO2 algorithm.
The OMI NO2 files are stored in version 5 EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5). The short name for the Level-2 swath type column NO2 products is OMNO2. Each Level-2 file contains data from the day lit portion of an orbit (~53 minutes). There are approximately 14 orbits per day. The maximum file size for the OMNO2 is ~21 MB. Other OMNO2-associated NO2 products include the Level-2 gridded column product, OMNO2G, and the Level-3 gridded column product, OMNO2d.
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
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Krotkov, N. A., & Veefkind, P. (2021). OMI/Aura Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Total and Tropospheric Column 1-orbit L2 Swath 13x24 km [Data set]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AURA/OMI/DATA2417 Date Accessed: 2026-05-15
Krotkov, Nickolay A., and Pepijn Veefkind. “OMI/Aura Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Total and Tropospheric Column 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x24 Km.” NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, 2021. doi:10.5067/AURA/OMI/DATA2417. Date Accessed: 2026-05-15
Krotkov, Nickolay A., and Pepijn Veefkind. OMI/Aura Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Total and Tropospheric Column 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x24 Km. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, 2021, doi:10.5067/AURA/OMI/DATA2417. Date Accessed: 2026-05-15
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