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OMI NO2 observations of boreal
forest fires
OMI NO2 observations of boreal
forest fires
Nicolas Bousserez,Randall V. Martin, Lok Lamsal,
and the ARCTAS team
Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova Scotia
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ARCTAS experimentSpring/Summer 2008ARCTAS experimentSpring/Summer 2008
Summer phase (June, 18 - July, 13)
Boreal forest fires over center Canada
DC-8 measurements:
NOx concentrations
Aerosols optical properties
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Boreal fires emissions over ‘Alberta’ domainBoreal fires emissions over ‘Alberta’ domain
OMI (DOMINO KNMI) NO2 tropospheric columns
OMI (DOMINO KNMI) NO2 tropospheric columns
MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
MODIS fire pixelsMODIS fire pixels
ARCTAS summer phase averaged NO2 and AOD
tropospheric columns
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DC-8 NODC-8 NO22 tropospheric columns & AOD tropospheric columns & AOD
Summer Phase (18/06 to 13/07)
Tropospheric AODNO2 Tropospheric Columns
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GEOS-Chem ARCTAS GEOS-Chem ARCTAS NRT SimulationsNRT Simulations
GEOS-Chem v8-01-01
Modifications:
David Streets 2006 emissions over SE Asia & China
FLAMBE daily biomass burning emissions
GEOS-5 Metfields
Horizontal Grid: 2º lat x 2.5º lon
Vertical Grid: Reduced 47 layers
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NONO22 vs Aerosol Extinction vs Aerosol Extinction
in biomass burning plumesin biomass burning plumes
Bias in GC
GC
DC-8
NO2 (pptV)
Ext
inct
ion
coef
ficie
nt (
550n
m)
(Mm
-1)
-DC-8 criteria:
HCN > 500 pptVNOx/NOy > 40%
-GC criteria:
CObb > 90% Total CO(sensitivity runs)
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Impact of aerosols and GC NO2 profiles on
NO2 retrievals?
Impact of aerosols and GC NO2 profiles on
NO2 retrievals?
AMF with explicit aerosols and clouds correction (LIDORT model)
GEOS-Chem provides NO2 profiles (shape factor) and aerosol optical properties (scattering
weights calculation)
Ωv = Ωs / AMF
Shape factorScattering weights
Ωs = Slant Column
Ωv = Vertical Column
AMF = Air Mass Factor
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AMF sensitivity to aerosols & shape factorAMF sensitivity to aerosols & shape factor
AMF Aerosol Correction Factor ~ + 7.5 %
AMF Shape Factor Correction Factor ~ - 35 %
Shape factor impact dominates
AMF/AMFw/o aerosols
AMF/AMFw/o bb emissions
SSA
Mostly Scattering Aerosols
DC-8
GC
Single Scattering Albedo(SSA)
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Significant improvement of the NOSignificant improvement of the NO22/AOD /AOD
relationship using GC shape factorsrelationship using GC shape factors
DC-8
GC
KNMI(DOMINO)
KNMI_gc(w/ GC profiles)
Correction over boreal fires: NO2 KNMI_GC ~ 2*NO2 KNMI
BB criteria:data points close to MODIS
hot spot pixels(r < 10 km)
NO2
AO
D (
MO
DIS
)
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OMI NO2 / GCstd NO2
AM
F c
orre
cted
/ A
MF
sta
ndar
d
Linear relationship between AMF correction factor and OMI NO2/GCstd NO2 ratio?
Real-time correction to measured NO2 columns over boreal fires areas
In practice, exclude data when AMFcorrected/AMFstandard < 0.2
Proposed correction for OMI tropospheric NO2 Proposed correction for OMI tropospheric NO2 columns over boreal firescolumns over boreal fires
OMI NO2 - GCstd NO2 > 0.5 x GCstd NO2 r = -0.68y = -0.10 x + 0.76nb pts = 11
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