MAX-DOAS tropospheric NO2 column measurements in Islamabad, Pakistan (33°N, 73°E) from 2015 to 2019 and comparisons with OMI and TROPOMI satellite data

This data presents an intercomparison of NO₂ retreival settings using Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) and those based on literature published over last 20 years. Moreover, it presents comparison of NO₂ Vertical Column Densities(VCD) obtained from ground based MAX-DOAS in Islamabad, Pakistan with satellite data from 2015-2019. MAX-DOAS has retrieved data at seven elevation angles i.e., 2, 4, 5, 10, 15, 30, 45. On the other hand, VCDs are in molecules per cm². However, in order to collect NO2 dataset, DOASIS was used was used to obtain data from MAX-DOAS and further analyzed using QDOAS. Then geometric approximation was applied to obtain VCDs that are presented in this data set.