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The OMI science team produces this Level-3 Aura/OMI Global OMSO2e Data Products (0.25 degree Latitude/Longitude grids). In this Level-3 daily global SO2 data product, each grid contains only one observation of Total Column Density of SO2 from the GEOS-5 profile, based on an improved Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Algorithm. This single observation is the "best pixel", selected from all "good" L2 pixels of OMSO2 that overlap this grid and have UTC time between UTC times of 00:00:00 and 23:59:59.999. In addition to the SO2 Vertical column value some ancillary parameters, e.g., cloud fraction, terrain height, scene number, solar and satellite viewing angles, row anomaly flags, and quality flags have been also made available corresponding to the best selected SO2 data pixel in each grid.

The OMSO2e files are stored in the version 5 EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5) using the grid model.

Product Summary

Platforms
Aura
Instruments
OMI
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2004-10-01 to Present
Data Partner
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
C3756242136-GES_DISC
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
7873
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Sulfur Dioxide

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Krotkov, N. A., Li, C., & Leonard, P. (2025). OMI/Aura Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Total Column Daily L3 1 Day Best Pixel in 0.25 degree x 0.25 degree [Data set]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AURA/OMI/DATA3408 Date Accessed: 2026-05-31

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on distribution of inorganic pollutants in selected cities of Nigeria Fuwape, I. A., Okpalaonwuka, C. T., Ogunjo, S. T. Nitrogen Dioxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Reflectance, Sulfur Dioxide
Revisiting the levels of Aerosol Optical Depth in south-southeast Asia, Europe and USA amid the COVID-19 pandemic using satellite observations Acharya, Prasenjit, Barik, Gunadhar, Gayen, Bijoy Krishna, Bar, Somnath, Maiti, Arabinda, Sarkar, Ashis, Ghosh, Surajit, De, Sikhendra Kisor, Sreekesh, S. Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
Reduction of surface radiative forcing observed from remote sensing data during global COVID-19 lockdown Mazhar, Usman, Jin, Shuanggen, Bilal, Muhammad, Arfan Ali, Md., Khan, Rehana Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
COVID-19 lockdowns improve air quality in the South-East Asian regions, as seen by the remote sensing satellites Metya, Abirlal, Dagupta, Panini, Halder, Santanu, Chakraborty, S., Tiwari, Yogesh K. Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide
Evolution of SO2 and NOx Emissions from Several Large Combustion Plants Constantin, Daniel-Eduard, Bocaneala, Corina, Voiculescu, Mirela, Rosu, Adrian, Merlaud, Alexis, Roozendael, Michel Van, Georgescu, Puiu Lucian Sulfur Dioxide
Development of the global atmospheric chemistry general circulation model BCC-GEOS-Chem v1. 0: model description and evaluation Lu, Xiao, Zhang, Lin, Wu, Tongwen, Long, Michael S., Wang, Jun, Jacob, Daniel J., Zhang, Fang, Zhang, Jie, Eastham, Sebastian D., Hu, Lu, Zhu, Lei, Liu, Xiong, Wei, Min Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
Changes in Atmospheric, Meteorological, and Ocean Parameters Associated Jing, Feng, Chauhan, Akshansha, P Singh, Ramesh, Dash, Prasanjit Sulfur Dioxide, Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone
New strategies for vertical transport in chemistry transport models: Lachatre, Mathieu, Mailler, Sylvain, Menut, Laurent, Turquety, Solene, Sellitto, Pasquale, Guermazi, Henda, Salerno, Giuseppe, Caltabiano, Tommaso, Carboni, Elisa Sulfur Dioxide
Atmospheric measurements in the context of protection and conservation of cultural heritage objects Rosu, Adrian, Constantin, Daniel-Eduard, Arseni, Maxim, Timofti, Mihaela Atmospheric Ozone, Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), Nitrogen Dioxide, Ultraviolet Radiation
Limited Regional Aerosol and Cloud Microphysical Changes Despite Diamond, Michael S., Wood, Robert Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
Study of mixing ratios of SO2 in a tropical rural environment in south India Renuka, K, Gadhavi, Harish, Jayaraman, A, Rao, S V Bhaskara, Lal, S Sulfur Dioxide
Variation of industrial air pollution emissions based on VIIRS thermal anomaly data Sun, Shuang, Li, Lingjun, Wu, Zhihong, Gautam, Atul, Li, Jinxiang, Zhao, Wenji Sulfur Dioxide
Distribution of sulfur dioxide over Indian subcontinent: Remote sensing observations and model reanalysis Chutia, Lakhima, Ojha, Narendra, Girach, Imran A., Pathak, Binita, Sahu, Lokesh K., Bhuyan, Pradip Kumar Sulfur Dioxide
Long-term satellite-based estimates of air quality and premature mortality in Equatorial Asia through deep neural networks Bruni Zani, N, Lonati, G, Mead, M I, Latif, M T, Crippa, P Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Ultraviolet Radiation
Inverse modeling of SO2 and NOx emissions over China using multisensor satellite data Part 1: Formulation and sensitivity analysis Wang, Yi, Wang, Jun, Xu, Xiaoguang, Henze, Daven K., Qu, Zhen, Yang, Kai Nitrogen Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
Measurement report: Statistical modelling of long-term trends of atmospheric inorganic gaseous species within proximity of the pollution hotspot in South ... Swartz, Jan-Stefan, van Zyl, Pieter G., Beukes, Johan P., Galy-Lacaux, Corinne, Ramandh, Avishkar, Pienaar, Jacobus J. Sulfur Dioxide
Spatial Assessment of Health Economic Losses from Exposure to Ambient Pollutants in China Wang, Kun, Wang, Wen, Wang, Weijia, Jiang, Xiaoqun, Yu, Tao, Ciren, Pubu Nitrogen Dioxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness
Why is the Indo-Gangetic Plain the region with the largest NH3 column in the globe during pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons? Wang, Tiantian, Song, Yu, Xu, Zhenying, Liu, Mingxu, Xu, Tingting, Liao, Wenling, Yin, Lifei, Cai, Xuhui, Kang, Ling, Zhang, Hongsheng, Zhu, Tong Sulfur Dioxide
Estimating ground-level concentrations of multiple air pollutants and their health impacts in the Huaihe River Basin in China Zhang, Deying, Bai, Kaixu, Zhou, Yunyun, Shi, Runhe, Ren, Hongyan Nitrogen Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
Evolution of anthropogenic air pollutant emissions in Guangdong Province, China, from 2006 to 2015 Bian, Yahui, Huang, Zhijiong, Ou, Jiamin, Zhong, Zhuangmin, Xu, Yuanqian, Zhang, Zhiwei, Xiao, Xiao, Ye, Xiao, Wu, Yuqi, Yin, Xiaohong, Li, Cheng, Chen, Liangfu, Shao, Min, Zheng, Junyu Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
Extended database of SO2 column densities over Pakistan by exploiting satellite observations Jabeen, Zunaira, Khokhar, Muhammad Fahim Sulfur Dioxide
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Decadal Trends in Wet Sulfur Deposition in China Estimated From OMI SO2 Zhang, X. Y., Chuai, X. W., Liu, L., Zhang, W. T., Lu, X. H., Zhao, L. M., Chen, D. M. Sulfur Dioxide
A 15-year record (20012015) of the ratio of nitrate to non-sea-salt sulfate in precipitation over East Asia Itahashi, Syuichi, Yumimoto, Keiya, Uno, Itsushi, Hayami, Hiroshi, Fujita, Shin-ichi, Pan, Yuepeng, Wang, Yuesi Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
A new method for deriving trace gas emission inventories from satellite observations: The case of SO2 over China Kourtidis, Konstantinos, Georgoulias, Aristeidis K., Mijling, Bas, van der A, Ronald, Zhang, Qiang, Ding, Jieying Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide
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