A roadmap to estimating agricultural  ammonia volatilization over Europe using  satellite observations and simulation data

Abeed, Rimal; Viatte, Camille; Porter, William C.; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Clerbaux, Cathy; Clarisse, Lieven; Van Damme, Martin; Coheur, Pierre-François; Safieddine, Sarah

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12505-2023

Articles | Volume 23, issue 19

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12505-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12505-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 19

Research article

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09 Oct 2023

Research article |

| 09 Oct 2023

A roadmap to estimating agricultural ammonia volatilization over Europe using satellite observations and simulation data

Rimal Abeed, Camille Viatte, William C. Porter, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Cathy Clerbaux, Lieven Clarisse, Martin Van Damme, Pierre-François Coheur, and Sarah Safieddine

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12505-2023-supplement

Data sets

ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47

EC-Earth-Consortium EC-Earth3-Veg model output prepared for CMIP6 ScenarioMIP EC-Earth Consortium https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.727

NH3R-ERA5 total column from IASI (Level 2) LATMOS-ULB https://iasi.aeris-data.fr/nh3r-era5/

MCD12Q1 MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V006 M. Friedl and D. Sulla-Menashe https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.006

Short summary

Ammonia emissions from agricultural activities will inevitably increase with the rise in population. We use a variety of datasets (satellite, reanalysis, and model simulation) to calculate the first regional map of ammonia emission potential during the start of the growing season in Europe. We then apply our developed method using a climate model to show the effect of the temperature increase on future ammonia columns under two possible climate scenarios.