Finding your TEMPO: Intro. to the Mission, Products, and Data Services for Air Quality Observations

NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission is the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent every daylight hour at high spatial resolution.

TEMPO is an ultraviolet and visible spectrometer that sits on a commercial satellite in a geostationary orbit about 22,000 miles above Earth's equator. This vantage point enables TEMPO to monitor daily variations in ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and other key elements of air pollution from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Mexico City and the Yucatan Peninsula to the Canadian oil sands.

This webinar provides an overview of the TEMPO mission and its data products and shows you how to discover and access TEMPO data products using NASA's Earthdata Search. This includes finding documentation, performing searches and filtering, using subsetting/concatenation services in Earthdata Search, and utilizing the Earthdata Forum.

Presentation slide deck: https://go.nasa.gov/4dZt313

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
03:22 Agenda
04:14 TEMPO Mission Introduction
12:11 Overview of TEMPO Data Products
21:34 How to Find, Access, and Download TEMPO Data Using NASA's Earthdata Search
41:12 Basic Overview of Programmatic Access using Harmony
44:49 Opening and Working with TEMPO Files using Panoply
52:53 TEMPO Resources at ASDC
59:30 Question-and-Answer Session