Carbon monoxide (CO) - DATA and Publications

MOPITT CO data

MOPITT measurements provide vertical profiles and total column carbon monoxide and are useful to analyze the distribution, transport, sources and sinks on global level.
MOPITT retrievals of carbon monoxide are public available for the period starting March 3, 2000 and continuing to the present.
The current variants (types) of MOPITT CO retrievals (Level 2 and Level 3 products) are: TIR: thermal infrared-only (TIR-only, band near 4.7 μm) product, NIR near infrared-only (NIR-only, band near 2.3 μm) product and TIR&NIR joint or multispectral TIR and NIR product.

DATA:      The MOPITT version V3 product (now outdated) was the first satellite data set for tropospheric CO observation and its characteristics was cover in [Deeter et al. 2003]. Mopitt V4 product use variable a priori  [Deeter et al 2010] and it was found that V4 data are in good agreement with aircraft measurements [Emmons et al 2009] and ground spectrometers  [Yurganov et al 2010] with no instrumental drift after 2002. Version 5 Level 2 and Level 3 products were discontinued at the end of 2016 and Version 6 Level 2 and Level 3 products were discontinued on September 20, 2017. The Version 7 Level 2 and Level 3 products are  available for the entire MOPITT mission, and the newest MOPITT Version 8 product (released in January 2019) is also available for the entire mission (see V8-user-guide).

In May, 2001, one of MOPITT's two coolers failed, effectively disabling channels 1 - 4. After extensive diagnostics and some minor reconfiguration of the Channel 7 PMC , MOPITT resumed operations in August, 2001 with channels 5 - 8 fully functional (cooler in unbalanced mode) . No MOPITT products are available for the period between May 7 and August 24, 2001. Therefore, the retrivals are divided in :
"Phase-I" CO Retrievals (March, 2000 - May, 2001) and "Phase-II" CO Retrievals (August, 2001 - present)
Phase I and Phase II CO retrievals are similar in terms of vertical resolution and information content.

Summary of old and new MOPITT products

 V8      TIR, NIR, TIR&NIR    2018-present                CAM-chem           MERRA2              10

                                * no longer available

          MOPITT products are publicly available from NASA
      NCAR: Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling

 MOPITT data. To download see:   https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt
(  ASDC Data Pool by ftp (V7 and V8, Level 2 and Level 3)

CO  DATA FTP:
ftp://l5ftl01.larc.nasa.gov/MOPITT/  & Data viewer PanoplyNASA

DATA V8 , (full mission) visualization:
Monthly:
https://www.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/MOPITT/data/plots8t/maps_mon.html TIR-only
https://www.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/MOPITT/data/plots8n/maps_mon.html NIR-only
https://www.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/MOPITT/data/plots8j/maps_mon.html TIR & NIR
Daily:
https://www.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/MOPITT/data/plots8t/maps.html TIR-only
https://www.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/MOPITT/data/plots8n/maps.html NIR-only
https://www.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/MOPITT/data/plots8j/maps.html TIR & NIR

MOPITT DATA via Giovanni:  The Bridge Between Data and Science v 4.29
Giovanni for MOPITT analysis :  https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/#service=TmAvMp&starttime=&endtime=&variableFacets=dataFieldMeasurement%3ACO%3B

MOPITT  Near Real-Time DATA   via:   Worldview (imag)
 Near-real-time MOPITT  observations link:
 https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/download-nrt-data/mopitt-nrt

PUBLICATIONS:

 Recent Refs concerning MOPITT data retrival :

[M. N. Deeter, L. K. Emmons, G. L. Francis, D. P. Edwards, J. C. Gille, J. X. Warner, B. Khattatov, D. Ziskin, J.-F. Lamarque, S.-P. Ho, V. Yudin, J.-L. Attié, D. Packman, J. Chen, D. Mao, and J. R. Drummond. Operational carbon monoxide retrieval algorithm and selected results for the MOPITT instrument. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 108:4399, July 2003. 

M. N. Deeter, D. P. Edwards, J. C. Gille, L. K. Emmons, G. Francis, S.-P. Ho, D. Mao, D. Masters, H. Worden, J. R. Drummond, and P. C. Novelli. The MOPITT version 4 CO product: Algorithm enhancements, validation, and long-term stability. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 115:7306, April 2010.

L. K. Emmons, D. P. Edwards, M. N. Deeter, J. C. Gille, T. Campos, P. Nédélec, P. Novelli, and G. Sachse. Measurements of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) validation through 2006. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 9:1795-1803, March 2009.

L. Yurganov, W. McMillan, E. Grechko, and A. Dzhola. Analysis of global and regional CO burdens measured from space between 2000 and 2009 and validated by ground-based solar tracking spectrometers. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 10:3479-3494, April 2010.]

MOPITT refereed papers:
https://www.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/mopitt_ref.shtml

MOPITT publications, user's guides and Algorithm Theoreical Basis Document(s) [ATBD]:
https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/publications

A comprehensive list of publocations which involve the MOPITT instrument can be found here (or  https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/pubs )

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