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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 Version Platform Instrument Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
MISR Level 3 FIRSTLOOK Component Global Aerosol Product covering a day V002 002 Terra MISR 1999-12-18 to 2017-11-30

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

0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees HDF-EOS2
MISR Level 3 FIRSTLOOK Component Global Aerosol Product covering a month V002 002 Terra MISR 1999-12-18 to 2017-10-31

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

0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees HDF-EOS2
MISR Level 3 FIRSTLOOK Component Global Albedo product covering a day V002 002 Terra MISR 1999-12-18 to Present

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

HDF-EOS2
MISR Level 3 FIRSTLOOK Component Global Albedo product covering a month V002 002 Terra MISR 1999-12-18 to Present

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

HDF-EOS2
MISR Level 3 FIRSTLOOK Global Aerosol product in netCDF format covering a day V002 002 Terra MISR 1999-12-18 to Present

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

netCDF-4
MISR Level 3 FIRSTLOOK Global Aerosol product in netCDF format covering a month V002 002 Terra MISR 1999-12-18 to Present

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

netCDF-4
MISR Level 3 FIRSTLOOK Global Albedo product in netCDF format covering a day V002 002 Terra MISR 1999-12-18 to Present

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

netCDF-4
MISR Level 3 FIRSTLOOK Global Albedo product in netCDF format covering a month V002 002 Terra MISR 1999-12-18 to Present

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

netCDF-4
MODIS/Aqua Temperature and Water Vapor Profiles 5-Min L2 Swath 5km - NRT 6.1NRT Aqua MODIS 2017-10-20

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

5 Kilometers x 5 Kilometers HDF-EOS
MOOSE Aerodyne Mobile Laboratory Measurements 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS GC-EI-TOF, Aerodyne Mini-TILDAS, Aerodyne CAPS, LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM, 2B Technologies 2021-05-20 to 2021-07-01

N: 43.12 S: 41.9 E: -82.42 W: -83.77

ICARTT
MOOSE NASA G-3 Aircraft GEO-CAPE Airborne Simulator (GCAS) Remotely Sensed Data 1 G-III GCAS 2021-06-05 to 2021-06-29

N: 43.62 S: 36.88 E: -72.11 W: -85.32

NetCDF-4
MOPITT Beta CO gridded daily means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109 109 Terra MOPITT 2018-03-25 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT Beta CO gridded daily means (Near Infrared Radiances) V109 109 Terra MOPITT 2018-03-25 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT Beta CO gridded daily means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109 109 Terra MOPITT 2018-03-25 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT Beta CO gridded monthly means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109 109 Terra MOPITT 2018-03-01 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT Beta CO gridded monthly means (Near Infrared Radiances) V109 109 Terra MOPITT 2018-03-01 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT Beta CO gridded monthly means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109 109 Terra MOPITT 2018-03-01 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009 9 Terra MOPITT 2000-03-03 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Near Infrared Radiances) V009 9 Terra MOPITT 2000-03-03 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009 9 Terra MOPITT 2000-03-03 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009 9 Terra MOPITT 2000-03-03 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Near Infrared Radiances) V009 9 Terra MOPITT 2000-03-03 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009 9 Terra MOPITT 2000-03-03 to 2025-02-01

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

HDF-EOS5
MSAQSO2L4 version 1 is superseded by newer version, DOI: 10.5067/MEASURES/SO2/DATA406 1 Aura, Suomi-NPP, Nimbus-7, EP-TOMS OMI, OMPS, TOMS 2005-01-01 to 2018-12-31

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

Multi-Satellite Air Quality Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Database Long-Term L4 Global V2 (MSAQSO2L4) at GES DISC 2 Aura, Suomi-NPP, Sentinel-5P, NOAA-20 OMI, OMPS, TROPOMI 2005-01-01 to 2025-12-31

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

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Featured Air Quality Observation Method: TEMPO

NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) instrument provides hourly measurements of O3, NO2, and other key elements of air pollution.

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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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Air Quality Data Tools

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Tool 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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