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Methane across the whole planet

Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Methane (mirrored at GES DISC)
GES DISC (mirror; original at ESA Copernicus) S5P_L2_CH4 cloud-native 5.5 × 7 km daily NetCDF atmospheregreenhouse-gases

Daily global methane column at moderate resolution. The widely-used complement to EMIT (high-res but sparse) for global methane budgeting.

Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Methane (mirrored at GES DISC)

Daily global methane column at moderate resolution. The widely-used complement to EMIT (high-res but sparse) for global methane budgeting.

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Gotchas

  • Mirror of ESA product; the ESA Copernicus catalog has the primary source
  • 5.5×7 km is coarse for point-source attribution; complement with EMIT
  • v2.4 is current
  • Other datasets: d007
  • Questions: q02

Sources

The access details, code, and sources below are kept in the original English for technical accuracy.

Quick access (cloud-direct)

s5p_l2_ch4_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="S5P_L2__CH4____",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream from GES DISC (mirror; original at ESA Copernicus)
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.

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