Quantitative analysis of NOx emissions from Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment satellite image sequences

Leue, Carsten; Wenig, Mark; Wagner, Thomas; Klimm, Oliver; Platt, U.; Jähne, Bernd

doi:10.1029/2000jd900572

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“…Satellite data from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) (Burrows et al, 1999) confirm that, on a climatological basis, NO x is highly concentrated in its major source regions, implying an average NO x lifetime in the atmosphere of about 1 day (Leue et al, 2001). Nevertheless, two episodes where GOME showed ICT of NO x were recently described.…”

Section: Long-range No X Transportmentioning

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Rapid intercontinental air pollution transport associated with a meteorological bomb

Stohl

Huntrieser²,

Richter

et al. 2003

Atmos. Chem. Phys.

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Abstract.Intercontinental transport (ICT) of trace substances normally occurs on timescales ranging from a few days to several weeks. In this paper an extraordinary episode in November 2001 is presented, where pollution transport across the North Atlantic took only about one day. The transport mechanism, termed here an intercontinental pollution express highway because of the high wind speeds, was exceptional, as it involved an explosively generated cyclone, a so-called meteorological "bomb". To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study describing pollution transport in a bomb. The discovery of this event was based on tracer transport model calculations and satellite measurements of NO 2 , a species with a relatively short lifetime in the atmosphere, which could be transported that far only because of the high wind speeds produced by the bomb. A 15-year transport climatology shows that intercontinental express highways are about four times more frequent in winter than in summer, in agreement with bomb climatologies. The climatology furthermore suggests that intercontinental express highways may be important for the budget of short-lived substances in the remote troposphere. For instance, for a substance with a lifetime of 1 day, express highways may be responsible for about two thirds of the total ICT. We roughly estimate that express highways connecting North America with Europe enhance the average NO x mixing ratios over Europe, due to North American emissions, by about 2-3 pptv in winter.

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Section: Long-range No X Transportmentioning

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Rapid intercontinental air pollution transport associated with a meteorological bomb

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Richter

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“…As a result of the short lifetime of NO 2 in the planetary boundary layer, observations from satellite show NO 2 to be strongly correlated to emission regions (Leue et al, 2001; …”

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Systematic analysis of tropospheric NO2 long-range transport events detected in GOME-2 satellite data

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Abstract.Intercontinental long-range transport (LRT) events of NO 2 relocate the effects of air pollution from emission regions to remote, pristine regions. We detect transported plumes in tropospheric NO 2 columns measured by the GOME-2/MetOp-A instrument with a specialized algorithm and trace the plumes to their sources using the HYSPLIT Lagrangian transport model. With this algorithm we find 3808 LRT events over the ocean for the period 2007 to 2011. LRT events occur frequently in the mid-latitudes, emerging usually from coastal high-emission regions. In the free troposphere, plumes of NO 2 can travel for several days to the polar oceanic atmosphere or to other continents. They travel along characteristic routes and originate from both continuous anthropogenic emission and emission events such as bush fires. Most NO 2 LRT events occur during autumn and winter months, when meteorological conditions and emissions are most favorable. The evaluation of meteorological data shows that the observed NO 2 LRT is often linked to cyclones passing over an emission region.

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“…GOME, SCIAMACHY, and OMI) provide valuable data for identifying and evaluating NO x emissions from surface sources [Leue et al, 2001, Martin et al, 2003Lamsal et al, 2011]. Martin et al [2003] described an inverse based top-down approach to estimate NO x emissions on a global scale using tropospheric NO 2 retrievals from GOME.…”

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Satellite constraints of Nitrogen Oxide (NOX) emissions from India based on OMI observations and WRF-Chem simulations

Ghude

Pfister

Jena

et al. 2012

Geophys. Res. Lett.

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[1] In this work, we map and develop for the first time an independent satellite constrained NO x emission inventory for India for 2005 using an inverse technique and iterative procedure. We used OMI tropospheric NO 2 column retrievals over the Indian region, with tropospheric NO 2 columns simulated by the WRF-Chem model using the INTEX-B emission inventory. We determined the local relationship between modeled emissions and tropospheric columns and iteratively apply this relationship to OMI observations to derive an optimized NOx emission inventory on a 0.5°×0.5°grid. The optimized total NO x emissions for India amount to 1.9 TgN/y and agree within 25% with EDGARv4.1 and the INTEX-B estimate. Our top-down inventory captures many of the missing hotspots in the original inventory and suggests that the INTEX-B inventory overestimates emissions over the Western and Eastern Indo-Gangetic region and underestimates point sources. We further evaluate the effect of the top-down inventory on surface ozone, which clearly indicates significant changes in spatial distribution. Citation: Ghude, S.

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Quantitative analysis of NO_x emissions from Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment satellite image sequences

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Rapid intercontinental air pollution transport associated with a meteorological bomb

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Satellite constraints of Nitrogen Oxide (NOX) emissions from India based on OMI observations and WRF-Chem simulations

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Quantitative analysis of NOx emissions from Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment satellite image sequences

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Rapid intercontinental air pollution transport associated with a meteorological bomb

Rapid intercontinental air pollution transport associated with a meteorological bomb

Systematic analysis of tropospheric NO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; long-range transport events detected in GOME-2 satellite data

Satellite constraints of Nitrogen Oxide (NOX) emissions from India based on OMI observations and WRF-Chem simulations

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Quantitative analysis of NO_x emissions from Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment satellite image sequences

Systematic analysis of tropospheric NO<sub>2</sub> long-range transport events detected in GOME-2 satellite data