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Air Quality Data Access and Tools

NASA has air quality datasets that help researchers characterize the particular makeup of the air we breathe. Access a range of data and data tools such as AppEEARS, FIRMS, and Giovanni to make the most of air quality data.

Air quality comprises a constellation of scientific topics that inform our understanding of this field. Learn more about data and resources focused on aerosol optical depth, aerosol index, trace gases, land surface reflectance, the effect of dust, ash, and smoke, and human dimensions, including natural hazards.

Many NASA observation methods—platforms, instruments, and space geodesy techniques—provide data that improve our understanding of air quality, including NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, featured below. Learn more about how the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) continually acquire data about pollutants.

Air Quality Datasets

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Dataset Sort descending	Version	Platform	Instrument	Temporal Extent	Spatial Extent	Data Format
LISTOS Outer Island Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	Pandora	2018-05-09 to 2018-09-05		ICARTT
LISTOS Queens College Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	GAS SENSORS, HPLC	2018-04-30 to 2019-06-14		ICARTT
LISTOS Rutgers Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	GAS SENSORS, LIDAR, OZONESONDES	2018-05-06 to 2019-06-22		ICARTT
LISTOS Stony Brook Aircraft In-Situ Data	1	Airplane	AIMMS	2018-06-30 to 2019-07-29		ICARTT
LISTOS Surface Mobile Platform In-Situ Data	1	GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS	OZONE SENSOR, CPC, AMS, GAS SENSORS, GC-MS, Teledyne API Ozone Analyzer, Teledyne API Model T200U NO/NO2/NOx Analyzer	2018-05-23 to 2019-07-09		ICARTT
LISTOS University of Maryland Cessna Aircraft In-Situ Data	1	UMD Cessna	GPS, OZONE SENSOR, GAS SENSORS, CRDS, TSI-3563 Neph, AETHALOMETER, PSAP, GC-MS	2017-05-17 to 2019-07-29		ICARTT
LISTOS Westport Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	GAS SENSORS, LIDAR, OZONESONDES, LASERS	2018-05-01 to 2019-09-11		ICARTT
LISTOS Yale Coastal Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	AETHALOMETER, GAS SENSORS	2018-07-01 to 2019-08-01		ICARTT
LMOS Grafton Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	SPECTROMETERS, CEILOMETERS	2017-05-10 to 2017-06-21		ICARTT, ZIP
LMOS Illinois EPA (IEPA) Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	GAS SENSORS	2017-05-17 to 2017-05-30		ICARTT
LMOS Milwaukee Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	SPECTROMETERS, CEILOMETERS	2017-05-10 to 2017-06-15		ICARTT, ZIP
LMOS NOAA Research Vessel In-Situ Ozone Data	1	Ships	GPS, OZONE SENSOR	2017-06-02 to 2017-06-20		ICARTT
LMOS Schiller Park Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS		2017-05-22 to 2017-10-04		ICARTT
LMOS Scientific Aviation In-Situ Data	1	SA Mooney	Aerodyne CAPS, OZONE SENSOR, GAS SENSORS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, PRESSURE SENSORS, HUMIDITY SENSORS	2017-05-22 to 2017-06-24		ICARTT
LMOS Sheboygan Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	LASERS, LIDAR, HSRL, GPS, SPECTROMETERS, GAS SENSORS	2017-05-09 to 2017-06-24		ICARTT, NetCDF-3
LMOS Surface Mobile EPA-GMAP Ozone Data	1	GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS	OZONE SENSOR, GPS	2017-06-06 to 2017-06-13		ICARTT
LMOS Surface Mobile University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Ozone Data	1	GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS	OZONE SENSOR	2017-06-02 to 2017-06-17		ICARTT
LMOS Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) Routine Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	GAS SENSORS	2017-05-22 to 2017-06-08		ICARTT
LMOS Zion Ground Site Data	1	GROUND STATIONS	CIT-ToF-CIMS, GAS SENSORS, PYRANOMETERS, SPECTROMETERS, CEILOMETERS, APS, SMPS, SODAR, GC-MS, OC-EC Analyzer	2017-05-16 to 2017-06-24		ICARTT, NetCDF-3, HDF5
Low Cost Sensors AQ AirQino Data	1	AirQino		2021-06-22 to Present	N: 43.91 S: 43.82 E: 11.15 W: 11.02	ICARTT, PDF
Low Cost Sensors AQ BEACO2N Data	1	BEACO2N		2012-04-06 to Present	N: 56.05 S: -36.93 E: 174.82 W: -122.51	ICARTT, PDF
Low Cost Sensors AQ HAQ Pods Data	1	HAQ Pods		2019-02-18 to Present	N: 40.91 S: 40.69 E: -111.84 W: -112.1	ICARTT, PDF
Low Cost Sensors AQ INSTEP Data	1	INSTEP		2023-06-07 to Present	N: 37.93 S: 33.97 E: -117.14 W: -122.34	ICARTT, PDF
Low Cost Sensors AQ RAMP Data	1	RAMP		2017-01-01 to Present	N: 40.75 S: 40.29 E: -79.82 W: -80.32	ICARTT, PDF
Low Cost Sensors AQ UPC Data	1	UPC		2017-01-08 to Present	N: 42.01 S: 41.32 E: 2.29 W: 2.08	ICARTT, PDF

A visualization of nitrogen dioxide emissions over North America from the TEMPO instrument.

New TEMPO Beta Level 1 Data Products

These new Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) products will aid validation efforts and algorithm development, and will be used to expand the mission’s higher-level products.

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Finding Your TEMPO: An Introduction to the Mission, Products, and Data Services for Air Quality Observations over North America

This webinar provides an overview of the TEMPO mission and its data products and shows how to discover and access TEMPO data products using NASA's Earthdata Search.

A view of atmospheric pollution in the Chicago metropolitan area from the TEMPO mission.

Worldview Adds New Data Layers from NASA's TEMPO Mission

The 14 layers from the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission offer data on clouds, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and more.

This image from the first light release of data from the TEMPO mission shows areas air pollution over the New York City and Washington, DC.

TEMPO Mission Releases Beta Level 1, 2, and 3 Version 03 Data Products

The beta release of Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission data products lets users begin developing applications using these data.

Air Quality Data Tools

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Tool Sort descending	Description	Services
AppEEARS	The The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers users a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes.	Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Customization, Downloading, Visualization
CASEI	The Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations (CASEI) is a comprehensive inventory of contextual information for NASA's Earth Science airborne and field campaigns.	Search and Discovery, Cataloging
FIRMS	The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity.	Access, Visualization
Panoply	Panoply is a cross-platform application that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets.	Visualization, Customization, Reformatting, Subsetting, Comparison
VEDA	NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities.	Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing

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