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Description

The OMPS-NPP L2 NM Formaldehyde (HCHO) Total Column swath orbital product provides formaldehyde measurements from the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Nadir-Mapper (NM) instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite. The total column HCHO amount is derived from radiances at wavelengths between 328.5 and 356.5 nm.

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. Each has typically 400 swaths. The swath width of the NM is about 2800 km with 36 scenes, or pixels, with a footprint size of 50 km x 50 km at nadir. The files are written in the new netCDF version 4 format.

Product Summary

Platforms
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
OMPS
Spatial Extent

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

Geographic Region
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2012-01-04 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
C2477579430-GES_DISC
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
62561
Processing Level
2
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Formaldehyde

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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Nowlan, C. (2022). OMPS-NPP L2 NM Formaldehyde (HCHO) Total Column swath orbital V1 [Data set]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/IIM1GHT07QA8 Date Accessed: 2025-12-13

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