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Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Change in NO2:
-47.59
Year:
2016
Average NO2:
9.09
Uncertainty (±%):
7.98
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Philadelphia Pennsylvania Trend Map

OMI versus AQS data for Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The filled circles represent trends for EPA AQS surface monitors.

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Philadelphia Pennsylvania Line Plot

Monthly OMI Nitrogen Dioxide data (top panel) and de-seasonalized data (bottom panel) for Philadelphia Pennsylvania

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Image Credit:

NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio/T. Schindler.

Philadelphia Comparison Imagery

Satellite data showing decreases in nitrogen dioxide between the 2005-2007 (left) and 2009-2011 (right) periods.

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Image Credit:

NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.

Make your own plots!  Download either our ASCII file or our Excel file that contain monthly-averaged OMI NO2 data for a number of US metro areas from 2005 to 2016.  The file can be easily imported into Microsoft Excel, for instance.


Select from the cities below to find data and plots specific to each location. To sort, simply click on one of the column headings.

City State Sort ascending 2016 Average NO2 (10^15 molec cm^-2) Uncertainty (%) Change since 2005 (%)
Madison Wisconsin Wisconsin 2.69 10.42 -19.25
Milwaukee Wisconsin Wisconsin 6.48 10.05 -46.31
Tacoma Washington Washington 5.47 9.85 -44.85
Seattle Washington Washington 5.54 8.36 -51.87
Vancouver Washington Washington 3.74 8.93 -52.73
Spokane Washington Washington 1.80 8.13 -28.54
Norfolk Virginia Virginia 4.10 8.01 -50.25
Richmond Virginia Virginia 4.87 7.87 -46.56
Chesapeake Virginia Virginia 3.57 8.20 -43.71
Newport News Virginia Virginia 3.86 8.43 -46.41
Virginia Beach Virginia Virginia 3.80 9.31 -46.36
Salt Lake City Utah Utah 6.11 18.38 -57.39
McKinney Texas Texas 3.15 9.06 -34.86
Irving Texas Texas 5.15 6.62 -42.28
Fort Worth Texas Texas 4.03 6.46 -40.28
San Antonio Texas Texas 3.14 6.94 -30.71
Grand Prairie Texas Texas 4.50 6.21 -40.65
Amarillo Texas Texas 1.62 8.68 -24.85
Lubbock Texas Texas 1.50 8.83 -17.96
Brownsville Texas Texas 1.18 8.78 -4.67
Plano Texas Texas 4.28 7.55 -36.59
Dallas Texas Texas 4.63 6.53 -40.25
Arlington Texas Texas 4.69 6.26 -40.5
El Paso Texas Texas 2.48 6.41 -33.86
Austin Texas Texas 2.90 7.88 -27.32
Corpus Christi Texas Texas 1.42 11.13 -8.54
Laredo Texas Texas 1.67 8.40 -20.92
Garland Texas Texas 4.23 7.25 -35.18
Houston Texas Texas 5.80 7.39 -40.6
Knoxville Tennessee Tennessee 4.21 8.04 -49.98
Nashville Tennessee Tennessee 4.49 9.45 -45.51
Chattanooga Tennessee Tennessee 3.97 8.03 -49.68
Memphis Tennessee Tennessee 3.41 8.28 -43.01
Sioux Falls South Dakota South Dakota 1.34 11.47 5.15
Providence Rhode Island Rhode Island 4.95 9.66 -36.64
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 9.09 7.98 -47.59
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 9.26 10.39 -50.73
Portland Oregon Oregon 3.97 9.09 -53.9
Oklahoma City Oklahoma Oklahoma 2.82 7.62 -35.63
Tulsa Oklahoma Oklahoma 2.94 7.44 -37.62
Columbus Ohio Ohio 4.90 11.72 -31.84
Toledo Ohio Ohio 6.05 8.44 -40.27
Cleveland Ohio Ohio 6.70 9.59 -42.81
Akron Ohio Ohio 5.47 9.99 -37.92
Cincinnati Ohio Ohio 7.28 7.83 -50.45
Winston Salem North Carolina North Carolina 4.10 7.81 -44.27
Fayetteville North Carolina North Carolina 3.28 8.04 -40.07
Greensboro North Carolina North Carolina 4.50 7.76 -46.85
Charlotte North Carolina North Carolina 4.92 6.78 -48.56
Raleigh North Carolina North Carolina 3.95 7.52 -44.46
Durham North Carolina North Carolina 3.83 7.38 -44.29
Buffalo New York New York 4.17 10.17 -38.17
Yonkers New York New York 11.33 9.04 -50.33
New York New York New York 15.95 7.24 -46.9
Rochester New York New York 3.51 11.21 -33.99
Albuquerque New Mexico New Mexico 2.00 7.21 -49.38
Jersey City New Jersey New Jersey 15.16 7.70 -47.23
Newark New Jersey New Jersey 13.75 8.21 -45.07
North Las Vegas Nevada Nevada 4.00 6.93 -59
Reno Nevada Nevada 1.97 9.50 -51.96
Henderson Nevada Nevada 4.16 7.08 -58.31
Las Vegas Nevada Nevada 4.24 6.98 -57.67
Omaha Nebraska Nebraska 2.58 10.19 -27.96
Lincoln Nebraska Nebraska 1.85 10.62 -15
Kansas City Missouri Missouri 4.21 7.59 -53.72
St. Louis Missouri Missouri 5.25 7.73 -42.72
Jackson Mississippi Mississippi 2.10 9.75 -23.89
Minneapolis Minnesota Minnesota 5.25 10.74 -39.41
Saint Paul Minnesota Minnesota 5.30 10.60 -38.2
Detroit Michigan Michigan 8.26 9.47 -44.21
Grand Rapids Michigan Michigan 4.33 13.65 -33.04
Boston Massachusetts Massachusetts 6.29 9.54 -43.19
Worcester Massachusetts Massachusetts 4.07 12.04 -29.67
Baltimore Maryland Maryland 8.57 6.74 -49.14
Shreveport Louisiana Louisiana 2.52 8.36 -34.35
Baton Rouge Louisiana Louisiana 3.63 7.94 -36.1
New Orleans Louisiana Louisiana 2.97 8.19 -26.54
Lexington Kentucky Kentucky 3.79 9.44 -37.44
Louisville Kentucky Kentucky 5.53 9.28 -44.91
Wichita Kansas Kansas 1.93 8.99 -20.37
Overland Park Kansas Kansas 3.52 8.18 -47.23
Des Moines Iowa Iowa 2.20 9.50 -25.86
Indianapolis Indiana Indiana 5.54 8.79 -41.03
Fort Wayne Indiana Indiana 3.47 11.44 -17.51
Aurora Illinois Illinois 7.04 9.75 -33.83
Chicago Illinois Illinois 11.42 9.63 -47.49
Boise Idaho Idaho 1.91 11.35 -40.95
Honolulu Hawaii Hawaii 0.94 7.05 -26.7
Columbus Georgia Georgia 2.30 8.80 -32.59
Augusta Georgia Georgia 2.93 8.16 -39.49
Atlanta Georgia Georgia 6.45 7.20 -57.71
Cape Coral Florida Florida 1.54 8.08 -31.69
Pembroke Pines Florida Florida 2.86 6.43 -45.42
Hialeah Florida Florida 3.02 6.95 -40.4
Port St. Lucie Florida Florida 1.82 7.62 -21.41
Miami Florida Florida 3.02 8.08 -36.7
St. Petersburg Florida Florida 2.86 8.24 -48.35
Jacksonville Florida Florida 3.54 7.50 -42.88
Tampa Florida Florida 3.50 7.31 -53.1
Fort Lauderdale Florida Florida 2.88 7.16 -46.7
Tallahassee Florida Florida 1.63 8.77 -22.62
Orlando Florida Florida 3.57 5.91 -37.17
Washington D.C. District of Columbia 8.65 6.80 -50.72
Aurora Colorado Colorado 5.42 7.41 -43.2
Colorado Springs Colorado Colorado 2.32 8.00 -37.77
Denver Colorado Colorado 5.42 7.41 -43.2
Chula Vista California California 4.88 7.97 -50.27
Riverside California California 11.42 5.95 -64.84
Garden Grove California California 12.41 6.94 -58.59
Ontario California California 15.09 5.38 -66.51
Santa Ana California California 11.84 6.71 -61
Anaheim California California 13.45 5.93 -63.61
Irvine California California 8.30 7.42 -61.53
Fontana California California 12.37 5.43 -63.87
Stockton California California 4.28 7.50 -61.29
Fresno California California 3.09 10.39 -58.82
San Jose California California 4.19 9.42 -61.65
Moreno Valley California California 9.75 6.12 -64.18
Glendale California California 15.15 5.40 -65.69
Fremont California California 5.26 8.70 -63.43
San Francisco California California 4.33 10.15 -46.94
Oxnard California California 2.86 10.28 -49.47
Elk Grove California California 4.15 7.53 -54.8
Rancho Cucamonga California California 12.78 5.37 -65.25
Bakersfield California California 4.25 7.80 -62.53
Oceanside California California 3.33 10.99 -53.91
Sacramento California California 4.34 7.07 -54.89
San Diego California California 4.08 9.07 -54.16
Modesto California California 3.98 8.23 -58.1
Santa Rosa California California 1.53 11.09 -28.41
Huntington Beach California California 8.78 8.42 -52.19
Los Angeles California California 13.32 6.01 -62.44
Oakland California California 5.32 8.15 -54.3
San Bernardino California California 9.49 5.54 -58.45
Santa Clarita California California 4.95 6.54 -64.02
Long Beach California California 15.81 6.71 -58.01
Little Rock Arkansas Arkansas 2.57 8.66 -34.03
Tucson Arizona Arizona 2.25 6.50 -52.29
Tempe Arizona Arizona 4.84 6.59 -59.28
Glendale Arizona Arizona 6.76 7.25 -62.86
Scottsdale Arizona Arizona 4.92 7.14 -61.05
Mesa Arizona Arizona 4.45 6.59 -56.11
Gilbert Arizona Arizona 3.95 6.64 -54.07
Phoenix Arizona Arizona 6.79 7.00 -64.26
Chandler Arizona Arizona 3.51 7.15 -52.62
Anchorage Alaska Alaska 1.50 12.60 -57.43
Birmingham Alabama Alabama 4.08 7.09 -53.35
Montgomery Alabama Alabama 2.59 7.97 -37.03
Huntsville Alabama Alabama 2.84 8.85 -36.41
Mobile Alabama Alabama 2.87 8.09 -29.88