The incidence of obesity is rising worldwide at an alarming rate and is becoming a major public health concern with incalculable social and economic costs. Studies have exposed the relationship between the adiposity, inflammation and the development of other metabolic disorders, so dietary factors that influence some or all of these are of interest. Dietary phytochemicals appear to be able to target different stages of the adipocyte (fat cell) lifecycle. For example, several classes of polyphenols have been implicated in suppressing the growth of adipose tissue through modifying the adipocyte lifecycle. Many dietary phytochemicals also have strong anti-inflammatory activity, but the amount present in plants varies and may be affected by processing. In this review we summarise the likely mechanisms of action of plant phytochemicals. We highlight the major vegetable sources of polyphenols, including those with possible synergistic attributes, discuss the variation in polyphenol levels and their distribution in cultivars and outline the effects of food processing. The identification and characterisation of the anti-obesogenic properties of phytochemicals in vegetables, as well as an appreciation of the effect of cooking on phytochemical content provide significant new information supporting dietary guidelines that encourage vegetable consumption for the prevention and management of lifestyle related disease.
NASA deployed the GeoTASO airborne UVvisible spectrometer in May-June 2017 to produce highresolution (approximately 250 m × 250 m) gapless NO 2 datasets over the western shore of Lake Michigan and over the Los Angeles Basin. The results collected show that the airborne tropospheric vertical column retrievals compare well with ground-based Pandora spectrometer column NO 2 observations (r 2 = 0.91 and slope of 1.03). Apparent disagreements between the two measurements can be sensitive to the coincidence criteria and are often associated with large local variability, including rapid temporal changes and spatial heterogeneity that may be observed differently by the sunward-viewing Pandora observations. The gapless mapping strategy executed during the 2017 GeoTASO flights provides data suitable for averaging to coarser areal resolutions to simulate satellite retrievals. As simulated satellite pixel area increases to values typical of TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution), TROPOMI (TRO-POspheric Monitoring Instrument), and OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument), the agreement with Pandora measurements degraded, particularly for the most polluted columns as localized large pollution enhancements observed by Pandora and GeoTASO are spatially averaged with nearby less-polluted locations within the larger area representative of the satellite spatial resolutions (aircraft-to-Pandora slope: TEMPO scale = 0.88; TROPOMI scale = 0.77; OMI scale = 0.57). In these two regions, Pandora and TEMPO or TROPOMI have the potential to compare well at least up to pollution scales of 30 × 10 15 molecules cm −2 . Two publicly available OMI tropospheric NO 2 retrievals are found to be biased low with respect to these Pandora observations. However, the agreement improves when higher-resolution a priori inputs are used for the tropospheric air mass factor calculation (NASA V3 standard product slope = 0.18 and Berkeley High Resolution product slope = 0.30). Overall, this work explores best practices for satellite validation strategies with Pandora direct-sun observations by showing the sensitivity to product spatial resolution and demonstrating how the high-spatial-resolution NO 2 data retrieved from airborne spectrometers, such as GeoTASO, can be used with high-temporal-resolution ground-based column observationsPublished by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 6092 L. M. Judd et al.: Impact of spatial resolution on tropospheric NO 2 column comparisons to evaluate the influence of spatial heterogeneity on validation results.
Abstract. Airborne and ground-based Pandora spectrometer NO2 column
measurements were collected during the 2018 Long Island Sound Tropospheric
Ozone Study (LISTOS) in the New York City/Long Island Sound region, which
coincided with early observations from the Sentinel-5P TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) instrument.
Both airborne- and ground-based measurements are used to evaluate the
TROPOMI NO2 Tropospheric Vertical
Column (TrVC) product v1.2 in this region, which has high spatial and
temporal heterogeneity in NO2. First, airborne and Pandora TrVCs are
compared to evaluate the uncertainty of the airborne TrVC and establish the
spatial representativeness of the Pandora observations. The 171 coincidences
between Pandora and airborne TrVCs are found to be highly correlated
(r2= 0.92 and slope of 1.03), with the largest individual differences
being associated with high temporal and/or spatial variability. These
reference measurements (Pandora and airborne) are complementary with respect
to temporal coverage and spatial representativity. Pandora spectrometers can
provide continuous long-term measurements but may lack areal representativity
when operated in direct-sun mode. Airborne spectrometers are typically only
deployed for short periods of time, but their observations are more
spatially representative of the satellite measurements with the added
capability of retrieving at subpixel resolutions of 250 m × 250 m
over the entire TROPOMI pixels they overfly. Thus, airborne data are more
correlated with TROPOMI measurements (r2=0.96) than Pandora
measurements are with TROPOMI (r2=0.84). The largest outliers between TROPOMI and the reference measurements appear to stem from too spatially coarse a priori surface reflectivity (0.5∘) over bright urban scenes. In this work, this results during cloud-free scenes that, at times, are affected by errors in the TROPOMI cloud pressure retrieval impacting the calculation of tropospheric air mass factors. This
factor causes a high bias in TROPOMI TrVCs of 4 %–11 %. Excluding these
cloud-impacted points, TROPOMI has an overall low bias of 19 %–33 % during
the LISTOS timeframe of June–September 2018. Part of this low bias is caused
by coarse a priori profile input from the TM5-MP model; replacing these profiles
with those from a 12 km North American Model–Community Multiscale Air Quality (NAMCMAQ) analysis results in a 12 %–14 % increase in
the TrVCs. Even with this improvement, the TROPOMI-NAMCMAQ TrVCs have a
7 %–19 % low bias, indicating needed improvement in a priori assumptions in
the air mass factor calculation. Future work should explore additional
impacts of a priori inputs to further assess the remaining low biases in
TROPOMI using these datasets.
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