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Description

The OMPS-NPP L2 LP Ozone (O3) Vertical Profile swath daily 3slit collection contains ozone measured by the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Limb-Profiler (LP) sensor on the Suomi-NPP satellite. The LP ozone product measures the vertical distribution of ozone in the stratosphere and lower mesosphere. The algorithm derives ozone profile values along with errors in the UV from 29.5 km and 52.5 km, and in the visible from cloud top to 37.5 km (when there are no clouds the lower limit is 12.5 km).

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, the data from the center of the LP three slits are used to make a vertical profile. The profile is measured from the ground up to about 60 km with a vertical resolution of the retrieved profiles of approximately 1.8 km.

The data are written using the Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 or HDF5.

Product Summary

Platforms
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
OMPS
Spatial Extent

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

Location
GLOBAL ,
MESOSPHERE ,
STRATOSPHERE ,
Troposphere
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2012-02-07 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
C1410181089-GES_DISC
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
4361
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Atmospheric Ozone

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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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DeLand, M. (2017). OMPS-NPP L2 LP Ozone (O3) Vertical Profile swath daily 3slit V2.5 [Data set]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/X1Q9VA07QDS7 Date Accessed: 2026-05-02

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Validation of SNPP OMPS limb profiler version 2.6 ozone profile retrievals against correlative satellite and ground based measurements Richards, Nigel A. D., Kramarova, Natalya A., Frith, Stacey M., Davis, Sean M., Jia, Yue Atmospheric Ozone
SAGE III/ISS ozone and NO2 validation using diurnal scaling factors Strode, Sarah A., Taha, Ghassan, Oman, Luke D., Damadeo, Robert, Flittner, David, Schoeberl, Mark, Sioris, Christopher E., Stauffer, Ryan Atmospheric Ozone
Exceptional loss in ozone in the Arctic winter/spring of 2019/2020 Kuttippurath, Jayanarayanan, Feng, Wuhu, Muller, Rolf, Kumar, Pankaj, Raj, Sarath, Gopikrishnan, Gopalakrishna Pillai, Roy, Raina Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles
Ozone profile retrievals from TROPOMI: Implication for the variation of tropospheric ozone during the outbreak of COVID-19 in China Zhao, Fei, Liu, Cheng, Cai, Zhaonan, Liu, Xiong, Bak, Juseon, Kim, Jae, Hu, Qihou, Xia, Congzi, Zhang, Chengxin, Sun, Youwen, Wang, Wei, Liu, Jianguo Atmospheric Ozone
Validation of ozone profile retrievals derived from the OMPS LP version 2.5 algorithm against correlative satellite measurements Kramarova, Natalya A., Bhartia, Pawan K., Jaross, Glen, Moy, Leslie, Xu, Philippe, Chen, Zhong, DeLand, Matthew, Froidevaux, Lucien, Livesey, Nathaniel, Degenstein, Douglas, Bourassa, Adam, Walker, Kaley A., Sheese, Patrick Atmospheric Ozone
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