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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
LISTOS Outer Island Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS Pandora 2018-05-09 to 2018-09-04

N: 41.25 S: 41.24 E: -72.76 W: -72.77

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LISTOS Queens College Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS GAS SENSORS, HPLC 2018-04-30 to 2019-06-13

N: 40.74 S: 40.73 E: -73.82 W: -73.83

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LISTOS Rutgers Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS GAS SENSORS, LIDAR, OZONESONDES 2018-05-07 to 2019-06-21

N: 40.47 S: 40.46 E: -74.42 W: -74.44

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LISTOS Stony Brook Aircraft In-Situ Data 1 Airplane AIMMS 2018-06-30 to 2019-07-29

N: 41.4 S: 39.95 E: -72.24 W: -74.02

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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

N: 42.68 S: 40.58 E: -72.32 W: -74.19

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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

N: 42.01 S: 38.97 E: -71.25 W: -77.08

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LISTOS Westport Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS GAS SENSORS, LIDAR, OZONESONDES, LASERS 2018-05-01 to 2019-09-10

N: 41.12 S: 41.11 E: -73.33 W: -73.34

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LISTOS Yale Coastal Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS AETHALOMETER, GAS SENSORS 2018-07-01 to 2019-08-30

N: 45 S: 35 E: 75 W: -80

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LMOS Grafton Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS SPECTROMETERS, CEILOMETERS 2017-05-10 to 2017-06-21

N: 43.35 S: 43.31 E: -87.92 W: -87.96

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LMOS Illinois EPA (IEPA) Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS GAS SENSORS 2017-05-17 to 2017-05-30

N: 45.45 S: 45.44 E: -94.71 W: -94.72

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LMOS Milwaukee Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS SPECTROMETERS, CEILOMETERS 2017-05-10 to 2017-06-15

N: 43.07 S: 43.03 E: -87.9 W: -87.92

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LMOS NOAA Research Vessel In-Situ Ozone Data 1 Ships GPS, OZONE SENSOR 2017-06-02 to 2017-06-20

N: 43.84 S: 42.46 E: -86.33 W: -87.91

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LMOS Schiller Park Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS 2017-05-22 to 2017-09-17

N: 41.97 S: 41.96 E: -87.87 W: -87.88

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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

N: 44.01 S: 41.6 E: -85.48 W: -88.74

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LMOS Sheboygan Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS LASERS, LIDAR, HSRL, GPS, SPECTROMETERS, GAS SENSORS 2017-05-09 to 2017-06-23

N: 43.75 S: 43.74 E: -87.7 W: -87.71

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LMOS Surface Mobile EPA-GMAP Ozone Data 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS OZONE SENSOR, GPS 2017-06-06 to 2017-06-13

N: 42.79 S: 42.45 E: -87.75 W: -87.93

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LMOS Surface Mobile University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Ozone Data 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS OZONE SENSOR 2017-06-02 to 2017-06-17

N: 43.77 S: 43.33 E: -87.7 W: -87.93

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LMOS Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) Routine Ground Site Data 1 GROUND STATIONS GAS SENSORS 2017-05-22 to 2017-06-08

N: 43.5 S: 41.95 E: -87.8 W: -87.96

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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

N: 46 S: 40 E: 95 W: -95

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

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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 City of Madison Data 1 City of Madison Air Quality 2023-06-10 to Present

N: 37.93 S: 33.97 E: -117.14 W: -122.34

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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

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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

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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

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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 Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers 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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