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TR-L2-NO2  

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  • The TROPOMI instrument onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor is a nadir-viewing, imaging spectrometer covering wavelength bands between the ultraviolet and the shortwave infrared. The instrument uses passive remote sensing techniques to attain its objective by measuring, at the Top Of Atmosphere (TOA), the solar radiation reflected by and radiated from Earth. The TROPOMI instrument, single payload onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor, retrieves operationally tropospheric and stratospheric NO2 column products. The TROPOMI NO2 data products pose an improvement over previous NO2 data sets, particularly in their unprecedented spatial resolution, but also in the separation of the stratospheric and tropospheric contributions of the retrieved slant columns, and in the calculation of the air-mass factors used to convert slant to total columns.

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  • Level-2 Nitrogen Dioxide total column

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https://vocab.met.no/mmd/Product_Types/TR-L2-NO2

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