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  1. Sentinel-5P average abundance of methane for 2022 over China
  2. Sentinel-5P average abundance of methane for 2021 over China
  3. Sentinel-5P average abundance of methane for 2020 over China
  4. Sentinel-5P average abundance of methane for 2019 over China

Monitoring our atmosphere with Sentinel-5P

From pitch-black in 2020 to light red in 2022. This map clearly shows it: the sky over Beijing is slowly brightening. Since 2013, the city has made significant investments to improve the city’s air quality. The Beijing Municipal Government launched a set of urgent measures to tackle air pollution including transforming its transport sector by switching to cleaner modes of transport.

How we monitor the health of our atmosphere? With the Sentinel-5 Precursor, first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. Sentinel-5P carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument which enables us - and governments - to map polluting gases, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate.
Today, the satellite is celebrating its sixth birthday. Sentinel-5P was launched into orbit on 13 October 2017 onboard the Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia and has a minimum life of seven years.

Easily access Sentinel-5P data

Here’s the coolest part: you can easily access Sentinel-5P data through the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. Combined with the layers from the Terrascope platform, you can easily access several air quality data products. Soon, these air quality layers will also be available at the openEO platform, granting you access to even more valuable data.

These Sentinel-5P images show the averaged abundance of NO2 over one year of 2019 and 2022 in China.