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© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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06 Mar 2020
Research article |
| 06 Mar 2020
Comparison of tropospheric NO2 columns from MAX-DOAS retrievals and regional air quality model simulations
Anne-Marlene Blechschmidt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, IUP-UB, Bremen, Germany
Joaquim Arteta
Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Adriana Coman
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, CNRS/INSU UMR7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil et Université Paris Diderot, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Lyana Curier
TNO, Climate Air and Sustainability Unit, Utrecht, the Netherlands
now at: Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Biobased Materials, Maastricht University, Geleen, the Netherlands
Henk Eskes
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Gilles Foret
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, CNRS/INSU UMR7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil et Université Paris Diderot, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Clio Gielen
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, BIRA-IASB, Brussels, Belgium
Francois Hendrick
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, BIRA-IASB, Brussels, Belgium
Virginie Marécal
Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Frédérik Meleux
Institut National de l'Environnement et des RISques industriels, INERIS, Verneuil-en-Halatte, France
Jonathan Parmentier
Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Enno Peters
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, IUP-UB, Bremen, Germany
Gaia Pinardi
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, BIRA-IASB, Brussels, Belgium
Ankie J. M. Piters
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Matthieu Plu
Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Andreas Richter
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, IUP-UB, Bremen, Germany
Arjo Segers
TNO, Climate Air and Sustainability Unit, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Mikhail Sofiev
Finnish Meteorological Institute, FMI, Helsinki, Finland
Álvaro M. Valdebenito
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, MetNo, Oslo, Norway
Michel Van Roozendael
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, BIRA-IASB, Brussels, Belgium
Julius Vira
Finnish Meteorological Institute, FMI, Helsinki, Finland
Tim Vlemmix
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
John P. Burrows
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, IUP-UB, Bremen, Germany
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Short summary
MAX-DOAS tropospheric NO2 vertical column retrievals from a set of European measurement stations are compared to regional air quality models which contribute to the operational Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). Correlations are on the order of 35 %–75 %; large differences occur for individual pollution plumes. The results demonstrate that future model development needs to concentrate on improving representation of diurnal cycles and associated temporal scalings.
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