The OMI Atmospheric Science Data Products

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), will provide measurements in the UV and Visible spectral regions (1560 wavelength bands between 270 and 500 nm with approximately 0.5 nm spectral resolution). OMI will continue the long-term Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) column ozone record and will focus on monitoring the ozone layer, ozone depleting trace gases (BrO and OClO), atmospheric pollutants (tropospheric ozone, NO2, SO2, and HCHO), clouds and aerosols characteristics, and surface spectral UV irradiance and erythemal surface UV-B flux. OMI is a contribution of the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programs (NIVR) in collaboration with the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), to NASA's Aura mission. It will be flown on the Aura spacecraft (early 2004) in a sun-synchronous polar orbit with equator crossing time approximately at 1:38 p.m in the ascending mode. The standard atmospheric chemistry and dynamics products derived from OMI, and from the other two Aura sensors, the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) and the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), will be archived at the NASA GES DAAC. OMI atmospheric data products will provide continuity to the over 30 year long-term ozone data records obtained from the heritage atmospheric data missions including Nimbus-4 BUV and Nimbus-7 SBUV, and a series of TOMS instruments, also archived at the NASA GES DAAC. The standard satellite data sets, as well as regional subsets, related ancillary data sets, and data analysis tools are freely available to the public for the Earth System Science studies, environmental applications, and educational use. This presentation will provide an overview of the OMI instrument, data processing, data products, and the data services provided by the NASA GES DAAC's Upper Atmosphere Data Support team to the user in the areas of accessing data products, documentation, browse, and data analysis software.