Estimating global surface ammonia concentrations inferred from satellite retrievals

Liu, Lei; Zhang, Xiuying; Wong, Anthony Y. H.; Xu, Wen; Liu, Xuejun; Li, Yi; Mi, Huan; Lu, Xuehe; Zhao, Limin; Wang, Zhen; Wu, Xiaodi; Wei, Jing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12051-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12051-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12051-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 18

Research article

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26 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 26 Sep 2019

Estimating global surface ammonia concentrations inferred from satellite retrievals

Lei Liu, Xiuying Zhang, Anthony Y. H. Wong, Wen Xu, Xuejun Liu, Yi Li, Huan Mi, Xuehe Lu, Limin Zhao, Zhen Wang, Xiaodi Wu, and Jing Wei

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12051-2019-supplement

Data sets

Version 2 of the IASI NH3 neural network retrieval algorithm: near-real-time and reanalysed datasets M. Van Damme, S. Whitburn, L. Clarisse, C. Clerbaux, D. Hurtmans, and P.-F. Coheur https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4905-2017

Industrial and agricultural ammonia point sources exposed, M. Van Damme, L. Clarisse, S. Whitburn, J. Hadji-Lazaro, D. Hurtmans, C. Clerbaux, and P.-F. Coheur https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0747-1

Field inter-comparison of eleven atmospheric ammonia measurement techniques K. von Bobrutzki, C. F. Braban, D. Famulari, S. K. Jones, T. Blackall, T. E. L. Smith, M. Blom, H. Coe, M. Gallagher, M. Ghalaieny, M. R. McGillen, C. J. Percival, J. D. Whitehead, R. Ellis, J. Murphy, A. Mohacsi, A. Pogany, H. Junninen, S. Rantanen, M. A. Sutton, and E. Nemitz https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-3-91-2010

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Agricultural production has greatly increased emissions of ammonia (NH₃) to the atmosphere. Sparse measurements of surface NH₃ concentrations make it challenging and difficult to understand the global distribution of surface NH₃ concentrations in both time and space. Estimating surface NH₃ concentrations is critically important for modeling the dry deposition of NH₃, which has important impacts on the natural environment. This paper provides the satellite-based global assessment of surface NH₃.