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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory, 2 (OCO-2) provides the most complete dataset tracking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂), the main driver of climate change. Since its launch (July 2014), OCO-2 measures sunlight reflected from Earth’s surface to infer the dry-air column-averaged CO2 mixing ratio and provides around 100,000 cloud-free observations.

However, the OCO-2 data as observed by the on-board instrument have large data gaps in coverage due to the narrow 10-km ground track and an inability to see through clouds and aerosols. To provide a gap-filled view of Earth’s carbon cycle and atmosphere NASA’s Global and Modeling Assimilation Office (GMAO) ingests OCO-2 retrievals every 6 hours with a modeling and assimilation technique and derives the Gridded Monthly OCO-2 Carbon Dioxide/OCO-2 GEOS Level 3 product.
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The visualizations on this page feature the Gridded Monthly OCO-2 Carbon Dioxide assimilated dataset and demonstrate the global distribution and variation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for the period January 2015-February 2022. One obvious feature that we see in the data visualization is a continual increase in carbon dioxide with time, as seen in the shift in the color of the map from dark purple towards light yellow as time progresses. Another feature is the seasonal variation of carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere, which is governed by the growth cycle of plants. This can be seen as a pulsing in the colors, with a shift towards lighter colors starting in April/May each year and a shift towards darker as the end of each growing season passes into winter. The seasonal cycle is more pronounced in the northern hemisphere than the southern hemisphere since most of the land mass is in the north.
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The visualization includes a data-driven spatial map of global carbon dioxide (CO₂) that is paired with a date legend (monthly timestep) and an animated colormap that includes the monthly global mean value of carbon dioxide from OCO-2.

The rest of this page offers visualization assets, layers in plate carrée and mollweide projections and a custom version for Science on a Sphere displays.

Assets for plate carrée projection
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Assets for mollweide projection
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Science on a Sphere (SOS) content
The following section contains assets designed for Science On a Sphere and related displays.
SOS playlist file: playlist.sos
SOS label file: labels.txt
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Colormap
The following section contains colormap information.
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Countries with emissions, seen here in red, appear to pop from the page, compared to countries with removals, seen in green. ", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 5024, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5024/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "20 years of AIRS Global Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) measurements (2002-October 2022)", "description": "Data visualization of global carbon dioxide (CO₂) for the period September 2002-October 2022, showcasing data products from NASA's Aqua mission. 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Each frame represents a montly timestep for the period September 2002-October 2022.The CO2_frames_dates_values.csv can be used to sync frame number, date and CO₂ values.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 5025, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5025/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "20 years of AIRS Global Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) measurements (2002-May 2022)", "description": "Data visualization of global carbon dioxide (CO₂) for the period September 2002-May 2022, showcasing data products from NASA's Aqua mission. 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