OMI/Aura Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Total and Tropospheric Column 1-orbit L2 Swath 13x24 km V004 (OMNO2)

The major V5.0 updates include the use of: (1) improved Collection 4 Level-1B radiance and irradiance data in the retrieval of NO2 and O2-O2 slant columns; (2) a-priori NO2 profiles and other model-derived information from a high-resolution (~25 km) Global Modeling Initiative (GMI) simulation; (3) a new algorithm for improved de-striping and data flagging to correct for cross-track artifacts and row-anomaly; (4) updated geometry dependent surface Lambertian Equivalent Reflectivity (GLER) and consistently-retrieved O2-O2 cloud products; and (5) improved snow/ice database and treatment in the GLER, cloud, and NO2 algorithms.

The details can be found in the updated OMNO2 readme document (see Documentation). The OMNO2 product contains NO2 slant column density (SCD), total NO2 vertical column density (VCD), the stratospheric and tropospheric VCDs, air mass factors (AMFs), scattering weights for AMF calculation, and other ancillary data used in the OMNO2 algorithm. The OMI NO2 files are stored in version 5 EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5).