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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2465-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2465-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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22 Feb 2023
Research article |
| 22 Feb 2023
| 22 Feb 2023
Tropospheric NO2 vertical profiles over South Korea and their relation to oxidant chemistry: implications for geostationary satellite retrievals and the observation of NO2 diurnal variation from space
Laura Hyesung Yang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Daniel J. Jacob
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 01238, USA
Nadia K. Colombi
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 01238, USA
Shixian Zhai
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Kelvin H. Bates
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Department of Environmental
Toxicology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Viral Shah
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Science Systems and Applications,
Inc., Lanham, MD 20706, USA
Ellie Beaudry
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Robert M. Yantosca
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Haipeng Lin
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Jared F. Brewer
Department of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota, St.
Paul, MN 55108, USA
Heesung Chong
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge,
MA 02138, USA
Katherine R. Travis
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
James H. Crawford
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Lok N. Lamsal
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Ja-Ho Koo
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
Jhoon Kim
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
Data sets
KORUS-AQ Data KORUS-AQ Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/KORUSAQ/DATA01
The Amsterdam-Granada Light Scattering Database (https://www.iaa.csic.es/scattering/) O. Muñoz, F. Moreno, D. Guirado, D. D. Dabrowska, H. Volten, and J. W. Hovenier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.01.014
Model code and software
geoschem/GCClassic: GEOS-Chem 13.3.4 (13.3.4) The International GEOS-Chem User Community https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5764874
Short summary
A geostationary satellite can now provide hourly NO2 vertical columns, and obtaining the NO2 vertical columns from space relies on NO2 vertical distribution from the chemical transport model (CTM). In this work, we update the CTM to better represent the chemistry environment so that the CTM can accurately provide NO2 vertical distribution. We also find that the changes in NO2 vertical distribution driven by a change in mixing depth play an important role in the NO2 column's diurnal variation.
A geostationary satellite can now provide hourly NO2 vertical columns, and obtaining the NO2...
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