Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere

Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) was successfully launched into sun-synchronous polar orbit aboard Terra, NASA's first Earth Observing System spacecraft on December 18, 1999. The MOPITT instrument was constructed by a consortium of Canadian companies and funded by the Space Science Division of the Canadian Space Agency.

MOPITT measurements yield atmospheric profiles of CO volume mixing ratio and CO total column values using near-infrared radiation at 2.3 µm and thermal-infrared radiation at 4.7 µm. There are no current plans to release a MOPITT methane product.

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Disciplines:   Tropospheric Composition
Collection Disciplines Spatial Temporal
MOP03J_109
MOPITT Beta CO gridded daily means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-25 - Present
MOP03J_8
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03J_9
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03JM_109
MOPITT Beta CO gridded monthly means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-01 - Present
MOP03JM_8
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03JM_9
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03N_109
MOPITT Beta CO gridded daily means (Near Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-25 - Present
MOP03N_8
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Near Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03N_9
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Near Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03NM_109
MOPITT Beta CO gridded monthly means (Near Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-01 - Present
MOP03NM_8
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Near Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03NM_9
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Near Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03T_109
MOPITT Beta CO gridded daily means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-25 - Present
MOP03T_8
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03T_9
MOPITT CO gridded daily means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03TM_109
MOPITT Beta CO gridded monthly means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-01 - Present
MOP03TM_8
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP03TM_9
MOPITT CO gridded monthly means (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
Collection Disciplines Spatial Temporal
MOP02J_109
MOPITT Beta Derived CO (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-25 - Present
MOP02J_8
MOPITT Derived CO (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP02J_9
MOPITT Derived CO (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP02N_109
MOPITT Beta Derived CO (Near Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-25 - Present
MOP02N_8
MOPITT Derived CO (Near Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP02N_9
MOPITT Derived CO (Near Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP02T_109
MOPITT Beta Derived CO (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V109
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2018-03-25 - Present
MOP02T_8
MOPITT Derived CO (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present
MOP02T_9
MOPITT Derived CO (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V009
Tropospheric Composition Spatial Coverage:
(S: -90, N: 90), (W: -180, E: 180)
Temporal Coverage:
2000-03-03 - Present

MOPITT Mission Publications

Anderson, Daniel C.; Duncan, Bryan N.; Nicely, Julie M.; Liu, Junhua; Strode, Sarah A.; Follette-Cook, Melanie B. (2023). Technical note: Constraining the hydroxyl (OH) radical in the tropics with satellite observations of its drivers – first steps toward assessing the feasibility of a global observation strategy.


Ashpole, Ian; Wiacek, Aldona (2023). Differences in MOPITT surface level CO retrievals and trends from Level 2 and Level 3 products in coastal grid boxes.


Martínez-Alonso, Sara; Deeter, Merritt N.; Baier, Bianca C.; McKain, Kathryn; Worden, Helen; Borsdorff, Tobias; Sweeney, Colm; Aben, Ilse (2022). Evaluation of MOPITT and TROPOMI carbon monoxide retrievals using AirCore in situ vertical profiles.


Daskalakis, Nikos; Gallardo, Laura; Kanakidou, Maria; Nüß, Johann Rasmus; Menares, Camilo; Rondanelli, Roberto; Thompson, Anne M.; Vrekoussis, Mihalis (2022). Impact of biomass burning and stratospheric intrusions in the remote South Pacific Ocean troposphere.


Buchholz, Rebecca R.; Worden, Helen M.; Park, Mijeong; Francis, Gene; Deeter, Merritt N.; Edwards, David P.; Emmons, Louisa K.; Gaubert, Benjamin; Gille, John; Martínez-Alonso, Sara; Tang, Wenfu; Kumar, Rajesh; Drummond, James R.; Clerbaux, Cathy; George, Maya; Coheur, Pierre-François; Hurtmans, Daniel; Bowman, Kevin W.; Luo, Ming; Payne, Vivienne H.; Worden, John R.; Chin, Mian; Levy, Robert C.; Warner, Juying; Wei, Zigang; Kulawik, Susan S. (2022). Air pollution trends measured from Terra: CO and AOD over industrial, fire-prone, and background regions.


Whaley, Cynthia H.; Mahmood, Rashed; von Salzen, Knut; Winter, Barbara; Eckhardt, Sabine; Arnold, Stephen; Beagley, Stephen; Becagli, Silvia; Chien, Rong-You; Christensen, Jesper; Damani, Sujay Manish; Dong, Xinyi; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Faluvegi, Gregory; Flanner, Mark; Fu, Joshua S.; Gauss, Michael; Giardi, Fabio; Gong, Wanmin; Hjorth, Jens Liengaard; Huang, Lin; Im, Ulas; Kanaya, Yugo; Krishnan, Srinath; Klimont, Zbigniew; Kühn, Thomas; Langner, Joakim; Law, Kathy S.; Marelle, Louis; Massling, Andreas; Olivié, Dirk; Onishi, Tatsuo; Oshima, Naga; Peng, Yiran; Plummer, David A.; Popovicheva, Olga; Pozzoli, Luca; Raut, Jean-Christophe; Sand, Maria; Saunders, Laura N.; Schmale, Julia; Sharma, Sangeeta; Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt; Skov, Henrik; Taketani, Fumikazu; Thomas, Manu A.; Traversi, Rita; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Tsyro, Svetlana; Turnock, Steven; Vitale, Vito; Walker, Kaley A.; Wang, Minqi; Watson-Parris, Duncan; Weiss-Gibbons, Tahya (2022). Model evaluation of short-lived climate forcers for the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme: a multi-species, multi-model study.


Deeter, Merritt; Francis, Gene; Gille, John; Mao, Debbie; Martínez-Alonso, Sara; Worden, Helen; Ziskin, Dan; Drummond, James; Commane, Róisín; Diskin, Glenn; McKain, Kathryn (2021). The MOPITT Version 9 CO product: sampling enhancements and validation.


Zhang, Xun; Liu, Jane; Han, Han; Zhang, Yongguang; Jiang, Zhe; Wang, Haikun; Meng, Lingyun; Li, Yi Chen; Liu, Yi (2021). Satellite-Observed Variations and Trends in Carbon Monoxide over Asia and Their Sensitivities to Biomass Burning.


Park, Mijeong; Worden, Helen M.; Kinnison, Douglas E.; Gaubert, Benjamin; Tilmes, Simone; Emmons, Louisa K.; Santee, Michelle L.; Froidevaux, Lucien; Boone, Chris D. (2021). Fate of Pollution Emitted During the 2015 Indonesian Fire Season.


Edwards, David P.; Worden, Helen M.; Neil, Doreen; Francis, Gene; Valle, Tim; Arellano Jr., Avelino F. (2021). The CHRONOS mission: capability for sub-hourly synoptic observations of carbon monoxide and methane to quantify emissions and transport of air pollution.


Strode, Sarah A.; Liu, Junhua; Lait, Leslie; Commane, Róisín; Daube, Bruce; Wofsy, Steven; Conaty, Austin; Newman, Paul; Prather, Michael (2021). Forecasting carbon monoxide on a global scale for the ATom-1 aircraft mission: insights from airborne and satellite observations and modeling.


Buchholz, R. R.; Hammerling, D.; Worden, H. M.; Deeter, M. N.; Emmons, L. K.; Edwards, D. P.; Monks, S. A. (2021). Links Between Carbon Monoxide and Climate Indices for the Southern Hemisphere and Tropical Fire Regions.


Wang, Shuo; Cohen, Jason Blake; Lin, Chuyong; Deng, Weizhi (2021). Constraining the relationships between aerosol height, aerosol optical depth and total column trace gas measurements using remote sensing and models.


Wang, Kai; Zhang, Yang; Yu, Shaocai; Wong, David C.; Pleim, Jonathan; Mathur, Rohit; Kelly, James T.; Bell, Michelle (2021). A comparative study of two-way and offline coupled WRF v3.4 and CMAQ v5.0.2 over the contiguous US: performance evaluation and impacts of chemistry–meteorology feedbacks on air quality.


Desservettaz, Maximilien J.; Fisher, Jenny A.; Luhar, Ashok K.; Woodhouse, Matthew T.; Bukosa, Beata; Buchholz, Rebecca R.; Wiedinmyer, Christine; Griffith, David W. T.; Krummel, Paul B.; Jones, Nicholas B.; Deutscher, Nicholas M.; Greenslade, Jesse W. (2020). Australian Fire Emissions of Carbon Monoxide Estimated by Global Biomass Burning Inventories: Variability and Observational Constraints.


Zheng, Bo; Chevallier, Frederic; Yin, Yi; Ciais, Philippe; Fortems-Cheiney, Audrey; Deeter, Merritt N.; Parker, Robert J.; Wang, Yilong; Worden, Helen M.; Zhao, Yuanhong (2020). Global atmospheric carbon monoxide budget 2000–2017 inferred from multi-species atmospheric inversions.


Buchholz, Rebecca R.; Park, Mijeong; Worden, Helen M.; Tang, Wenfu; Edwards, David P.; Gaubert, Benjamin; Deeter, Merritt N.; Sullivan, Thomas; Ru, Muye; Chin, Mian; Levy, Robert C.; Zheng, Bo; Magzamen, Sheryl (2020). New seasonal pattern of pollution emerges from changing North American wildfires.


Niu, Hewen; Kang, Shichang; Wang, Yuhang; Sarangi, Chandan; Rupakheti, Dipesh; Qian, Yun (2020). Measurements of light-absorbing impurities in snow over four glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau.


Koenig, Alkuin Maximilian; Magand, Olivier; Laj, Paolo; Andrade, Marcos; Moreno, Isabel; Velarde, Fernando; Salvatierra, Grover; Gutierrez, René; Blacutt, Luis; Aliaga, Diego; Reichler, Thomas; Sellegri, Karine; Laurent, Olivier; Ramonet, Michel; Dommergue, Aurélien (2019). Seasonal patterns of atmospheric mercury in tropical South America as inferred by a continuous total gaseous mercury record at Chacaltaya station (5240 m) in Bolivia.


Myriokefalitakis, Stelios; Daskalakis, Nikos; Gkouvousis, Angelos; Hilboll, Andreas; van Noije, Twan; Williams, Jason E.; Le Sager, Philippe; Huijnen, Vincent; Houweling, Sander; Bergman, Tommi; Nüß, Johann Rasmus; Vrekoussis, Mihalis; Kanakidou, Maria; Krol, Maarten C. (2019). Description and evaluation of a detailed gas-phase chemistry scheme in the TM5-MP global chemistry transport model (r112).


Buchholz, Rebecca R.; Deeter, Merritt N.; Worden, Helen M.; Gille, John; Edwards, David P.; Hannigan, James W.; Jones, Nicholas B.; Paton-Walsh, Clare; Griffith, David W. T.; Smale, Dan; Robinson, John; Strong, Kimberly; Conway, Stephanie; Sussmann, Ralf; Hase, Frank; Blumenstock, Thomas; Mahieu, Emmanuel; Langerock, Bavo (2019). Validation of MOPITT carbon monoxide using ground-based Fourier transform infrared spectrometer data from NDACC.


Pouyaei, Arman; Sadeghi, Bavand; Choi, Yunsoo; Jung, Jia; Souri, Amir H.; Zhao, Chun; Song, Chul Han (2019). Development and Implementation of a Physics‐Based Convective Mixing Scheme in the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling Framework.


Martínez-Alonso, Sara; Deeter, Merritt; Worden, Helen; Borsdorff, Tobias; Aben, Ilse; Commane, Róisin; Daube, Bruce; Francis, Gene; George, Maya; Landgraf, Jochen; Mao, Debbie; McKain, Kathryn; Wofsy, Steven (2018). 1.5 years of TROPOMI CO measurements: comparisons to MOPITT and ATom.


Chong, Heesung; Lee, Seoyoung; Cho, Yeseul; Kim, Jhoon; Koo, Ja-Ho; Pyo Kim, Yong; Kim, Younha; Woo, Jung-Hun; Hyun Ahn, Dha (2016). Assessment of air quality in North Korea from satellite observations.


Albores, I.S.; Buchholz, R.R.; Ortega, I.; Emmons, L.K.; Hannigan, J.W.; Lacey, F.; Pfister, G.; Tang, W.; Worden, H.M. (2016). Continental-scale Atmospheric Impacts of the 2020 Western U.S. Wildfires.


Bhardwaj, Piyush; Ki, Seo J.; Kim, Youn H.; Woo, Jung H.; Song, Chang K.; Park, Soon Y.; Song, Chul H. (2016). Recent changes of trans-boundary air pollution over the Yellow Sea: Implications for future air quality in South Korea.


Liu, Junhua; Strode, Sarah A.; Liang, Qing; Oman, Luke D.; Colarco, Peter R.; Fleming, Eric L.; Manyin, Michael E.; Douglass, Anne R.; Ziemke, Jerald R.; Lamsal, Lok N.; Li, Can (2015). Change in Tropospheric Ozone in the Recent Decades and Its Contribution to Global Total Ozone.


Daniels, William S.; Buchholz, Rebecca R.; Worden, Helen M.; Ahamad, Fatimah; Hammerling, Dorit M. (2015). Interpretable Models Capture the Complex Relationship Between Climate Indices and Fire Season Intensity in Maritime Southeast Asia.


Asatar G, Nair P (2010). Spatial distribution of near-surface CO over bay of Bengal during winter: role of transport. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72 (17), 1241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.07.025


Barret B, DeMazière M, Mahieu E (2003). Ground-based FTIP measurements of CO from Jungfraujoch: characterisation and comparison with in situ surface and MOPITT data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 3 (6), 2217. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-3-2217-2003