Quantifying the diurnal variation in atmospheric NO2 from Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) observations
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Published:2024-08-15
Issue:15
Volume:24
Page:8943-8961
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ISSN:1680-7324
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Container-title:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Atmos. Chem. Phys.
Author:
Edwards David P.ORCID, Martínez-Alonso SaraORCID, Jo Duseong S.ORCID, Ortega IvanORCID, Emmons Louisa K.ORCID, Orlando John J., Worden Helen M.ORCID, Kim JhoonORCID, Lee Hanlim, Park JunsungORCID, Hong Hyunkee
Abstract
Abstract. The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) over Asia is the first geostationary Earth orbit instrument in the virtual constellation of sensors for atmospheric chemistry and composition air quality research and applications. For the first time, the hourly observations enable studies of diurnal variation in several important trace gas and aerosol pollutants including nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which is the focus of this work. NO2 is a regulated pollutant and an indicator of anthropogenic emissions in addition to being involved in tropospheric ozone chemistry and particulate matter formation. We present new quantitative measures of NO2 tropospheric column diurnal variation which can be greater than 50 % of the column amount, especially in polluted environments. The NO2 distribution is seen to change hourly and can be quite different from what would be seen by a once-a-day low-Earth-orbit satellite observation. We use GEMS data in combination with TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) satellite and Pandora ground-based remote sensing measurements and Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols (Version 0, MUSICAv0) 3D chemical transport model analysis to examine the NO2 diurnal variation in January and June 2023 over Northeast Asia and Seoul, South Korea, study regions to distinguish the different emissions, chemistry, and meteorological processes that drive the variation. Understanding the relative importance of these processes will be key to including pollutant diurnal variation in models aimed at determining true pollutant exposure levels for air quality studies. The work presented here also provides a path for investigating similar NO2 diurnal cycles in the new Earth Venture Instrument-1 Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) data over North America, and later over Europe with Sentinel-4.
Funder
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
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