Sentinel-5P L2 CO
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an important atmospheric trace gas for our understanding of tropospheric chemistry. In certain urban areas, it is a major atmospheric pollutant. Main sources of CO are combustion of fossil fuels, biomass burning, and atmospheric oxidation of methane and other hydrocarbons.
Whereas fossil fuel combustion is the main source of CO at Northern mid-latitudes, the oxidation of isoprene and biomass burning play an important role in the tropics. TROPOMI on the Sentinel 5 Precursor (S5P) satellite observes the CO global abundance exploiting clear-sky and cloudy-sky Earth radiance measurements in the 2.3 µm spectral range of the shortwave infrared (SWIR) part of the solar spectrum. TROPOMI clear sky observations provide CO total columns with sensitivity to the tropospheric boundary layer. For cloudy atmospheres, the column sensitivity changes according to the light path.
The figure shows the S5P/TROPOMI CO total column mixing ratio averaged from November 13th to 19th, 2017 (from Borsdorff et al., GRL 2018). The data show clearly CO enhancements by wildfires in Brazil, Africa, Madagascar, and Australia as well as anthropogenic air pollution in India and China.
Availability
- Germany: 2017-10 - now
- Europe: 2017-10 - now
- Global: 2017-10 - now
Usage requirements
There are certain requirements that must be met for use. Some data or services require an individual application. For more information, please contact CODE-DE Support.
| Required? | Remark | |
| Registration on CODE-DE | No | --- |
| Cloud resources on CODE-DE | No | --- |
| Individual request | No | --- |
Access
Depending on the environment and the intended use, there are several ways to access the data:
- EO Browser: Sentinel-5P
- Data Explorer:
- Data Catalogue: CODE-DE
- Collection: Sentinel-5P
- Processing Level: Level 2
- Instrument: TROPOMI
- Path to repository on a Virtual Machine:
- /codede/Sentinel-5P/TROPOMI/L2__CO____
- /eodata/Sentinel-5P/TROPOMI/L2__CO____
More information
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Terms of use
Use of the product is subject to the following terms of use:
