NO<sub><i>x</i></sub> lifetimes and emissions of cities and power plants in polluted  background estimated by satellite observations

Liu, Fei; Beirle, Steffen; Zhang, Qiang; Dörner, Steffen; He, Kebin; Wagner, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5283-2016

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28 Apr 2016

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NO_x lifetimes and emissions of cities and power plants in polluted background estimated by satellite observations

Fei Liu, Steffen Beirle, Qiang Zhang, Steffen Dörner, Kebin He, and Thomas Wagner

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Data sets

Tropospheric NO2 TVCDs (DOMINO v2.0) Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service (TEMIS) http://www.temis.nl/airpollution/no2.html

ERA-Interim wind reanalysis data European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis/era-interim

Emission data for US power plants United States Environmental Protection Agency, Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) https://www.epa.gov/energy/egrid

Emission data for Chinese cities Multi-resolution Emission Inventory for China (MEIC) http://www.meicmodel.org

Emission data for US cities Joint Research Centre, Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=42

Sounding measurements University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Science http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

GTOPO30 elevation data US Geological Survey https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/GTOPO30

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We present a new method to quantify NO_x emissions and corresponding atmospheric lifetimes from OMI NO₂ observations together with ECMWF wind fields without further model input for sources located in polluted background. The derived NO_x emissions show generally good agreement with bottom-up inventories for power plants and cities. Global inventory significantly underestimated NO_x emissions in Chinese cities, most likely due to uncertainties associated with downscaling approaches.

NOx lifetimes and emissions of cities and power plants in polluted background estimated by satellite observations

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NO_x lifetimes and emissions of cities and power plants in polluted background estimated by satellite observations