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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
| Dataset Sort descending | Version | Platform | Instrument | Temporal Extent | Spatial Extent | Spatial Resolution | Data Format |
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| NARSTO EPA Supersite (SS) Pittsburgh Particulate Matter (PM) Composition Data | 1 | LABORATORY | SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, ICP-MS, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS | 2001-06-29 to 2002-09-29 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO EPA Supersite (SS) Pittsburgh Rapid Single-Particle Mass Spectrometer Data | 1 | FIELD SURVEYS | RSMS | 2001-09-20 to 2001-12-27 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO EPA_SS_HOUSTON TEXAQS2000 Washburn Tunnel Air Quality Monitoring Data | 1 | LABORATORY, GROUND STATIONS | FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, AEROSOL COLLECTORS, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS | 2000-08-29 to 2000-09-01 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO ICARTT NEAX 2004 DOE G-1 Air Chemistry, Aerosol, and Met Data | 1 | AIRCRAFT | BAROMETERS, UV OZONE DETECTORS, PYRANOMETERS, HYGROMETERS, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS, ANEMOMETERS, THERMISTORS | 2004-07-24 to 2004-08-11 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO PAC2001 CFS Cessna VOC, Particle Count, Ozone, and Meteorological Data | 1 | CESSNA 188 | BAROMETERS, TEMPERATURE PROBES, UV OZONE DETECTORS, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, WIND VANES, HUMIDITY SENSORS, OPC | 2001-08-14 to 2001-08-31 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO Pacific 2001 Air Quality Study (PAC2001) Cassiar Tunnel Gaseous and Particle Mass and Composition Data | 1 | LABORATORY, FIELD SURVEYS | GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, XRF, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS, DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY ANALYZERS | 2001-08-08 to 2001-08-15 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO Pacific 2001 Air Quality Study (PAC2001) Golden Ears Gaseous and Particulate Matter (PM) Data | 1 | GROUND STATIONS | AETHALOMETER, TEMPERATURE PROBES, UV OZONE DETECTORS, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, XRF, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY ANALYZERS, WIND MONITOR, PRESSURE SENSORS | 2001-08-03 to 2001-08-11 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO Pacific 2001 Air Quality Study (PAC2001) Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) and and Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CAPMoN) Supplemental Air Quality Data | 1 | GROUND STATIONS | TEMPERATURE PROBES, UV OZONE DETECTORS, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, TEOM, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, WIND MONITOR | 2001-01-01 to 2002-01-01 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO SOS99 Nashville WP-3D Orion Air Chemistry Data | 1 | GROUND STATIONS | BAROMETERS, LOPC-PMS, HPLC, HYGROMETERS, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, GPS, SPECTRORADIOMETERS, THERMISTORS | 1999-06-26 to 1999-07-19 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO SOS99NASH DOE G-1 Air Chemistry Data | 1 | G-1 AIRCRAFT | BAROMETERS, AEROSOL COLLECTORS, HYGROMETERS, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, GUST PROBES, SPECTRORADIOMETERS | 1999-06-26 to 1999-06-26 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO Supersite Transboundary Intensive Field Study (STIFS) Particulate Matter (PM) Inorganic Volatile Organic Compounds Data | 1 | LABORATORY | GC-MS, BALANCE, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS | 2001-06-25 to 2002-01-22 | ASCII | ||
| NARSTO_EPA_SS_ST_LOUIS Air Chemistry, Particulate Matter, Met Data | 1 | GROUND STATIONS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS | AETHALOMETER, RAIN GAUGES, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, ANEMOMETERS, AA-Particle, PRESSURE SENSORS | 2000-06-22 to 2003-07-20 | ASCII | ||
| OMI/Aura Ozone (O3) Total Column 1-Orbit L2 Swath 13x24 km V003 NRT | 003 | Aura | 2004-07-15 | ||||
| OMI/Aura Ozone (O3) Total Column Daily L3 Global 0.25deg Lat/Lon Grid NRT | 003 | Aura | OMI | 2004-07-15 | |||
| OMPS-NPP L2 NM Ozone (O3) Total Column swath orbital NRT | 2 | Suomi-NPP | OMPS | 2011-10-28 | |||
| OMPS-NPP L2 NP Ozone (O3) Vertical Profile swath orbital NRT | 2 | Suomi-NPP | OMPS | 2011-10-28 | |||
| OMPS/NPP PCA SO2 Total Column 1-Orbit L2 Swath 50x50km V2 (OMPS_NPP_NMSO2_PCA_L2) at GES DISC | 2 | Suomi-NPP | OMPS | 2012-01-26 to Present |
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| ORACLES Merge Data Files | 1 | NASA P-3, NASA ER-2 | Computer | 2016-07-28 to 2019-03-23 | NetCDF-4 | ||
| ORACLES Trace Gas Aircraft InSitu Data | 1 | NASA P-3 | 4STAR, LGR, OZONE MONITORS | 2016-08-24 to 2018-10-23 | ICARTT | ||
| OWLETS-1 NASA GSFC Pandora Spectrometer Project Data | 1 | GROUND STATIONS | Pandora | 2017-06-30 to 2017-10-16 | ICARTT | ||
| OWLETS-1 Ozonesonde Data | 1 | GROUND STATIONS | OZONESONDES | 2017-07-06 to 2017-09-13 | ICARTT | ||
| OWLETS-1 Sherpa Aircraft Data | 1 | C-23 Sherpa, UC-12B | GC-MS, CHEMILUMINESCENCE, LGR, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, GPS, HYGROMETERS, PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS, PITOT-STATIC SYSTEM, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, CAFE, 2B Technologies, GeoTASO | 2017-07-07 to 2017-09-12 | HDF5 | ||
| OWLETS-2 NASA GSFC Pandora Spectrometer Project Data | 1 | GROUND STATIONS | Pandora | 2018-05-08 to 2019-03-15 | ICARTT | ||
| OWLETS-2 Ozonesonde Data | 1 | GROUND STATIONS | OZONESONDES | 2018-06-07 to 2018-07-11 | ICARTT | ||
| OWLETS-2 SERC Research Vessel Data | 1 | R/V SERC | Pandora | 2018-06-29 to 2018-07-02 | ICARTT |
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.
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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This webinar provides an overview of the TEMPO mission and its data products and shows how to discover and access TEMPO data products using NASA's Earthdata Search.
The 14 layers from the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission offer data on clouds, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and more.
The beta release of Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission data products lets users begin developing applications using these data.
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