Resources


For useful data archives

  • AerosolWatch: Aerosol-related satellite data mapping by NOAA NESDIS STAR: Center for Satellite Applications and Research
  • AirNow-Tech: A platform for analyzing real-time and historical air quality data from the US monitoring network
  • AirNow-Tech archive: A repository for real-time and historical air quality data from the US monitoring network
  • Copernicus CAMS: Provides global atmospheric composition data, forecasts, and reanalysis from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
  • Copernicus Hub: A portal for accessing satellite imagery and Earth observation data from the Copernicus program
  • EPA AQS API: API intructions for retrieving air quality data collected by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • EPA AQS pre-generated data: A collection of pre-processed air quality datasets available for bulk download
  • EPA PM2.5 tiering tool: A tool for classifying PM2.5 air pollution events based on their severity and regulatory significance
  • IEM ASOS network: Iowa Environmental Mesonet (IEM) Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) Network, "riem" package in R
  • NASA GES DISC: A data archive providing global climate, weather, and atmospheric datasets from NASA missions
  • NASA GSFC: A resource for satellite-based NO2 data from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
  • NASA Giovanni: An online data analysis tool for visualizing and exploring NASA’s atmospheric and climate datasets
  • NASA MERRA-2 archive: A respitory for Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
  • NASA POWER: A website for NASA Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project
  • NOAA GOES-R: A website for NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites—R Series (GOES-R)
  • NOAA GOES-R GG cloud: A Googel Cloud for NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites—R Series (GOES-R)
  • NOAA GOES-R AOD: A respitory for NOAA GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level-2 Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
  • NOAA HRRR: A website for NOAA High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model
  • NOAA HRRR parameters: Parameter descriptions for NOAA High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model
  • TEMIS: Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service (TEMIS)
  • TEMPO: Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
  • TEMPO CosmicDS : Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) CosmicDS NO2 viewer
  • TEMPO EPA : EPA’s Remote Sensing Information Gateway for TEMPO
  • TROPOMI-L2 NOAA: Download TROPOMI Level-2 Data Files from the S5P Data Hub
  • TROPOMI-L2/3 PAL: Copernicus Sentinel-5P Product Algorithm Laboratory (S5P-PAL) Data Portal (Level-2 and Level-3)

For spatial information


For wildfire information

  • NRC: A website for Natural Resources Canada (NRC)
  • NIFC: A website for National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
  • Science Northwest: A blog on environmental science, air quality, and climate change (Dr. Jaffe, UW)
  • WFEIS: Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System (WFEIS) - assessments of historical wildland fire emissions across US, Canada, and global boreal regions

For models

  • EPA AERMOD: A Gaussian air dispersion model used for estimating air pollutant concentrations from industrial sources
  • FLEXPART: FLEXible PARTicle dispersion model (FLEXPART)
  • STILT: Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport Model v2.x (STILT)