WHIPS is an open-source program designed to make satellite-derived air quality data more usable. WHIPS interpolates level 2 satellite retrievals onto a user-defined fixed grid, in effect creating custom-gridded level 3 satellite product. You might be interested in WHIPS if you...
Run an air quality model and want to validate it against satellite measurements. Plan to compare satellite data to ground-based measurements. Need to compare multiple satellites on a common grid. Want to boost the horizontal resolution of your satellite data by averaging over time.
Output is flexible in resolution and projection, and can accommodate both equi-rectangular and lambert conic conformal projections. Currently, WHIPS can process the following data products:
OMI NO2 (NASA retrieval) OMI NO2 (KNMI retrieval) OMI HCHO (NASA retrieval) OMI SO2 (NASA retrieval) MOPITT CO (NASA retrieval) MODIS AOD (NASA retrieval)