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Research article
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11 Apr 2017
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| 11 Apr 2017
OMI air-quality monitoring over the Middle East
Michael P. Barkley
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth Observation Science Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Gonzalo González Abad
Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Thomas P. Kurosu
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA
Robert Spurr
RT Solutions Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Sara Torbatian
Air Quality Meteorologist, Air Quality Control Company (AQCC), Tehran, Iran
Christophe Lerot
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Brussels, Belgium
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Using Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) trace gas vertical column observations of NO2, HCHO, SO2, and CHOCHO, we have conducted a robust and detailed time series analysis to assess changes in local air quality for over 1000 locations (focussing on urban, oil refinery, oil port, and power plant targets) over the Middle East for 2005–2014. We find that for many locations in the Middle East, OMI observes a degradation in air quality during this time period.
Using Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) trace gas vertical column observations of NO2, HCHO,...
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