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Earthdata resources for users working with NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) data include tutorials and other learning resources, news announcements such as instrument updates and data releases, user guides and related documents, and frequently asked questions.

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Comparison of TEMPO UVAI vs DSCOVR EPIC UVAI

This notebook illustrates a comparison of ultra-violet aerosol index (UVAI) between the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument and DSCOVR EPIC UVAI.
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Jupyter Notebook
April 10, 2026
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Work With TEMPO Data via Harmony-py

This notebook demonstrates how to retrieve and visualize TEMPO data, using harmony-py to subset the data in the cloud, prior to downloading files.
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GitHub Repository
May 27, 2025
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Work With TEMPO Data via earthaccess

This notebook retrieves TEMPO data, inspects characteristics of the data such as array shapes and quality flags, and then creates a visualization of total column nitrogen dioxide concentrations.
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GitHub Repository
May 27, 2025
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TEMPO UVAI vs DSCOVR (Spatial)

This notebook illustrates a comparison of ultra-violet aerosol index (UVAI) between TEMPO and DSCOVR EPIC.
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TEMPO News

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Dr. Gonzalo González Abad, an Atmospheric Physicist at the Center for Astrophysics, sits at a desk in his office. He is wearing a green collared shirt and behind him is a computer monitor showing code used to manipulate data.

Dr. Gonzalo González Abad

NASA Earth science data help Dr. Gonzalo González Abad produce retrievals of formaldehyde and other atmospheric trace gases.
Data User Story
Oct. 26, 2023
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TEMPO Launch

The TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution) mission aims to answer this question more precisely than ever by creating a revolutionary new dataset of atmospheric chemistry measurements from space. TEMPO will be the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent every daylight hour at high spatial resolution.
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April 5, 2023
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