Nitrogen Dioxide in the Neighborhood

A team of scientists mapped nitrogen dioxide in California’s air at the neighborhood scale and found hotspots of the air pollutant near high-rise buildings and food processing facilities.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from Lee, H.J., Liu, Y., & Chatfield, R.B. (2023). TROPOMI NO₂ data can be accessed via NASA’s Earthdata Search and at NASA’s Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) via cooperative agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA). Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published March 7, 2023
Data acquired 2018 - 2019

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Sentinel-5P

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Air Quality

Applied Sciences