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Mapping Carbon Monoxide

Map of global carbon monoxide concentrations
Source: NASA's Earth Observatory
Published: December 18, 2014

MOPITT's monthly average of global concentrations of tropospheric carbon monoxide at an altitude of about 12,000 feet, in April 2000 (left) and April 2014.

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