ERIS

The Environmental Research Institute of the States

air monitoring

Finding your TEMPO: An Introduction to the Mission, Products, and Data Services for Air Quality Observations over North America

NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission is the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the continent of North America 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 will provide an overview of the TEMPO mission and its data products and will show 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.

Air Sensor Training: Building a Community Air Monitoring Network

Tracking California will provide an overview of the process involved in developing a community air monitoring network, based on our experience partnering with Comite Civico del Valle to establish a monitoring network that provides real-time information on particulate matter levels in Imperial County. The presentation will highlight a parallel process to the 14 elements laid out by the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) community air monitoring plan and additional considerations from our “Guidebook for Developing a Community Air Monitoring Network.”