OMI and MODIS Aerosol Data in GIOVANNI
Pawan Gupta1, Sundar A. Christopher1, Ana Prados2
1UAHuntsville 2UMBC,
JCET
AMS Giovanni Short Course January 11th, 2009
Giovanni Air Quality Tools and Datasets
Available Science Data Sets PM2.5 station data - Acquired at DataFed from EPA AIRNow and then via WCS into Giovanni MODIS TERRA and AQUA total and fine mode Aerosol Optical Depth MISR Aerosol Optical Depth CALIOP Aerosol Feature Mask curtain plots OMI UV Aerosol Index GOCART Model data AOD speciation (2x2.5 degree) Useful Tools for Air Quality Applications AOD/ PM2.5 scatter plots, correlation maps, time series and difference plots AOD and PM2.5 loops for examining long range transport of aerosols
Examples from GIOVANNI
Visualizing Californias Wildfires from Space
Tropospheric NO2
UV Aerosol Index
Aerosol Small Mode Fraction
Cloud Optical Thickness
Total Column CO
Aerosol Mass over Land
Southern California Wildfires
25 October 2007
Aerosol Optical Depths at 0.55 m (550 nm- red) from the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite
Southern California Wildfires
25 October 2007
MODIS on Terra~10:30 am
MODIS on Aqua ~1:30 pm
Aerosol Optical Depths at 0.55 m (550 nm- red)
Southern California Wildfires
25 October 2007 OMI UV Aerosol Index on Aura ~1:38 pm
MODIS on Terra
~10:30 am
MODIS on Aqua, ~1:30 pm
Southern California Wildfires
23-27 October 2007
Multi-day means smear out some spatial features, but allow for more complete coverage for datasparse mapping
OMI Tropospheric NO2
OMI UV Aerosol Index
Southern California Wildfires
OMI Tropospheric NO2
OMI UV Aerosol Index
AIRS Carbon Monoxide (CO)
MODIS Cloud Optical Thickness
MODIS Aerosol Mass over Land
MODIS Small Aerosol Fraction
Instance Landing Page for Gridded data
Description
Spatial Selection Some instances have vertical or wavelength selection
Parameter Selection Temporal Selection Visualization Selection
Outputs: Refine/Modify
Refine constraints and edit plot preferences
Download data files and images here
GIOVANNI data download page HDF, NetCDF, ASCII and KMZs
MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth
Almost two daily observations Terra and Aqua Sensitive to Boundary Layer Industrial, smoke & dust aerosols Well validated over land Fine mode fraction
Air Pollution over China: MODIS AOD via Giovanni
July 4th August 4th, 2008 August 5th August 25th, 2008
Beijing Summer 2007
Beijing Summer 2008
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OMI UV Aerosol Index
Mostly sensitive to absorbing aerosols above the planetary boundary layer (i.e transported smoke, and dust plumes)
GIOVANNI: PM2.5 Gridded Data
PM2.5 data from EPA AirNow (acquired from DataFed via WCS) provided in GIOVANNI framework as 1 degree gridded product, which makes easy to compare with other satellite & ground observation
PM2.5 Air Quality Index
Gridded GIOVANNI PM2.5 (gm-3)
July 31st, 2007
In Canada and the northcentral US, MODIS and OMI show thick aerosols plumes. CALIOP overpass has a plume above the boundary layer
CALIPSO Curtain Plots (A-Train)
July 31, 2007: Smoke and Haze over the U.S OMI contours over MODIS AOD. White lines indicate CALIPSO overpass
Calipso provides vertical aerosol and cloud information
Calipso Curtain Plots: July 31, 2007 Industrial Haze in Southeastern US
AIRNow PM2.5 map in background Yellow: Calipso aerosol flag Blue: cloud flag
Monitor-Satellite Comparisons June 15- July 15th, 2006 MODIS/PM2.5 correlation MODIS/PM2.5 time series
Satellite data is a total column --- not necessarily correlated with PM2.5 concentrations
Summary
Giovanni currently provides several NASA earth science products for visualization and exploration of U.S air quality, including aerosols from MODIS, OMI, and CALIPSO on the ATrain constellation, and gridded EPA AIRNow PM2.5 surface concentrations. Customized data files, plots, and maps by date/range & geographical region. Easy download of KMZ data files for 3D Visualization of US and Global Air Quality.
