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Air Quality: Carbon Monoxide

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an important atmospheric trace gas for understanding 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.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Air pollution
  • SDG13 Climate Action
Language
  • English
Use limitations The use of Sentinel data is governed by the Copernicus Sentinel Data Terms and Conditions: https://sentinel.esa.int/documents/247904/690755/Sentinel_Data_Legal_Notice.
Dataset reference date March 25, 2021
Temporal extent's start date March 14, 2021
Temporal extent's end date March 20, 2021
GeoNames
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Indonesia
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Malaysia
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand
  • Viet Nam
West bounding coordinates 86.37301456809199
East bounding coordinates 119.86220836006775
South bounding coordinates -6.4813447749223485
North bounding coordinates 30.15644408789234
Spatial Reference System WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) (CRS:84)
Completeness The data is completed.
Process Step The data was processed via Google Earth Engine platform by calculating the mean between the period. Then the result was resized to 1000 meter resolution and downloaded from the platform.
Lineage Sentinel-5P: (https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/COPERNICUS_S5P_OFFL_L3_CO#image-properties)
License Other (Open)
Copyright Yes
Version March 2021
Keywords sentinel 5p,air quality,carbon monoxide,CO
Date uploaded March 26, 2021, 01:51 (UTC)
Date modified February 10, 2022, 04:38 (UTC)