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The Version-3 Aura/OMI Pixel Corner Product, OMPIXCOR, is now available from the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)for the public access.(http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aura/OMI/ompixcor_v003.shtml ) (The shortname for this Level-2 OMI product is OMPIXCOR) The algorithm lead for this product is the US OMI scientists Dr. Thomas Kurosu (tkurosu@cfa.harvard.edu) from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center, Cambridge, MA. The OMPIXCOR product contains ground locations of the OMI pixel corners in the global scanning mode and other ancillary informations. OMPIXCOR files are stored in EOS Hierarchical Data Format (HDF-EOS5). Each file contains data from the day lit portion of an orbit (~53 minutes) . There are approximately 14 orbits per day. The average file size for the OMPIXCOR data product is about 5 Mbytes.