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U.S. NO2 Over Industrial Hotspots vs Industrial Production
Change from a year earlier, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, processed by KNMI (TEMIS). Monthly mean tropospheric NO2 from TROPOMI on Sentinel-5P, averaged by Palanor over Natural Earth boundaries. NO2 is far higher in winter than in summer. Hotspots: the tenth of each place's area with the highest NO2 in 2019, its cities, industry and power plants. Industrial production: Federal Reserve Board via FRED.
Two independent reads on U.S. industry: one from a satellite, one from the Federal Reserve. The satellite month is in within days; weather makes it far noisier month to month, so look at where the two lines agree over several months.
What this chart reads
- NO2 Pollution Hotspots: Contiguous U.S., Change vs Year Earlier (%)as “NO2 over U.S. hotspots (Sentinel-5P)”latest 2026-09-01
- Industrial Productionas “U.S. industrial production”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
NO2 Pollution Hotspots: Contiguous U.S., Change vs Year Earlier (%). Source: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018–2026), processed by KNMI: monthly mean tropospheric NO2 from TROPOMI on Sentinel-5P, TEMIS service (temis.nl). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Palanor calculation. Refreshed.
Industrial Production. Source: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System publishes this series monthly. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API nightly.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.