Effect of Megacities on the Transport and Transformation of Pollutants at Regional and Global Scales (EMeRGe) (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI)(ACP/AMT inter-journal SI)
Effect of Megacities on the Transport and Transformation of Pollutants at Regional and Global Scales (EMeRGe) (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI)(ACP/AMT inter-journal SI)
Editor(s): ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Andreas Petzold and Manabu Shiraiwa | Co-organizers: Lola Andrés Hernández and Helmut Ziereis Special issue jointly organized between Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
The project Effect of Megacities on the Transport and Transformation of Pollutants on the Regional and Global Scales, EMeRGe, was created to experimentally investigate the transport and transformation of air plumes coming from major population centres, MPCs. It comprises a set of unique airborne measurement campaigns carried out in two parts of the world having MPCs of very different characteristics and emissions. The two measurement campaigns using the HALO research aircraft (http://www.halo-spp.de/) were conducted in Europe in summer 2017 and in East Asia during the intermonsoon period in March-April 2018. The initial scientific team of EMeRGe, comprising scientists from four German universities and four research centres in 2016 (http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/emerge/home/home.html), was extended within the EMeRGe international membership, incorporating more than 50 research partners from 16 different countries. The combined and synergetic set of information obtained from airborne and ground-based data, satellite products, and their comparison with models enables the patterns of atmospheric composition and meteorological parameters observed during the campaigns to be constrained and thereby our understanding of the emissions, their transport, and physico-chemical transformation of the outflow from MPC emissions to be tested and assessed.

The EMeRGe special issue aims to publish the scientific results achieved by the project EMeRGe. This comprises contributions of the partners of the national and international EMeRGe scientific community. It solicits all relevant submissions addressing the EMeRGe science objectives.

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14 Jul 2023
Airborne observations of peroxy radicals during the EMeRGe campaign in Europe
Midhun George, Maria Dolores Andrés Hernández, Vladyslav Nenakhov, Yangzhuoran Liu, John Philip Burrows, Birger Bohn, Eric Förster, Florian Obersteiner, Andreas Zahn, Theresa Harlaß, Helmut Ziereis, Hans Schlager, Benjamin Schreiner, Flora Kluge, Katja Bigge, and Klaus Pfeilsticker
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 7799–7822, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7799-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7799-2023, 2023
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24 Feb 2023
Effects of transport on a biomass burning plume from Indochina during EMeRGe-Asia identified by WRF-Chem
Chuan-Yao Lin, Wan-Chin Chen, Yi-Yun Chien, Charles C. K. Chou, Chian-Yi Liu, Helmut Ziereis, Hans Schlager, Eric Förster, Florian Obersteiner, Ovid O. Krüger, Bruna A. Holanda, Mira L. Pöhlker, Katharina Kaiser, Johannes Schneider, Birger Bohn, Klaus Pfeilsticker, Benjamin Weyland, Maria Dolores Andrés Hernández, and John P. Burrows
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 2627–2647, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2627-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2627-2023, 2023
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03 Feb 2023
Chemical and dynamical identification of emission outflows during the HALO campaign EMeRGe in Europe and Asia
Eric Förster, Harald Bönisch, Marco Neumaier, Florian Obersteiner, Andreas Zahn, Andreas Hilboll, Anna B. Kalisz Hedegaard, Nikos Daskalakis, Alexandros Panagiotis Poulidis, Mihalis Vrekoussis, Michael Lichtenstern, and Peter Braesicke
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 1893–1918, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1893-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1893-2023, 2023
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18 Jan 2023
Optical receiver characterizations and corrections for ground-based and airborne measurements of spectral actinic flux densities
Birger Bohn and Insa Lohse
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 209–233, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-209-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-209-2023, 2023
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06 Jul 2022
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Black carbon aerosol reductions during COVID-19 confinement quantified by aircraft measurements over Europe
Ovid O. Krüger, Bruna A. Holanda, Sourangsu Chowdhury, Andrea Pozzer, David Walter, Christopher Pöhlker, Maria Dolores Andrés Hernández, John P. Burrows, Christiane Voigt, Jos Lelieveld, Johannes Quaas, Ulrich Pöschl, and Mira L. Pöhlker
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 8683–8699, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8683-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8683-2022, 2022
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05 May 2022
Overview: On the transport and transformation of pollutants in the outflow of major population centres – observational data from the EMeRGe European intensive operational period in summer 2017
M. Dolores Andrés Hernández, Andreas Hilboll, Helmut Ziereis, Eric Förster, Ovid O. Krüger, Katharina Kaiser, Johannes Schneider, Francesca Barnaba, Mihalis Vrekoussis, Jörg Schmidt, Heidi Huntrieser, Anne-Marlene Blechschmidt, Midhun George, Vladyslav Nenakhov, Theresa Harlass, Bruna A. Holanda, Jennifer Wolf, Lisa Eirenschmalz, Marc Krebsbach, Mira L. Pöhlker, Anna B. Kalisz Hedegaard, Linlu Mei, Klaus Pfeilsticker, Yangzhuoran Liu, Ralf Koppmann, Hans Schlager, Birger Bohn, Ulrich Schumann, Andreas Richter, Benjamin Schreiner, Daniel Sauer, Robert Baumann, Mariano Mertens, Patrick Jöckel, Markus Kilian, Greta Stratmann, Christopher Pöhlker, Monica Campanelli, Marco Pandolfi, Michael Sicard, José L. Gómez-Amo, Manuel Pujadas, Katja Bigge, Flora Kluge, Anja Schwarz, Nikos Daskalakis, David Walter, Andreas Zahn, Ulrich Pöschl, Harald Bönisch, Stephan Borrmann, Ulrich Platt, and John P. Burrows
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 5877–5924, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5877-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5877-2022, 2022
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19 Apr 2022
Oxidation pathways and emission sources of atmospheric particulate nitrate in Seoul: based on δ15N and Δ17O measurements
Saehee Lim, Meehye Lee, Joel Savarino, and Paolo Laj
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 5099–5115, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5099-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5099-2022, 2022
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21 Jun 2021
Integration of GOCI and AHI Yonsei aerosol optical depth products during the 2016 KORUS-AQ and 2018 EMeRGe campaigns
Hyunkwang Lim, Sujung Go, Jhoon Kim, Myungje Choi, Seoyoung Lee, Chang-Keun Song, and Yasuko Kasai
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 4575–4592, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4575-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4575-2021, 2021
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30 Sep 2020
Validation of XCO2 and XCH4 retrieved from a portable Fourier transform spectrometer with those from in situ profiles from aircraft-borne instruments
Hirofumi Ohyama, Isamu Morino, Voltaire A. Velazco, Theresa Klausner, Gerry Bagtasa, Matthäus Kiel, Matthias Frey, Akihiro Hori, Osamu Uchino, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Joshua P. DiGangi, Yonghoon Choi, Glenn S. Diskin, Sally E. Pusede, Alina Fiehn, Anke Roiger, Michael Lichtenstern, Hans Schlager, Pao K. Wang, Charles C.-K. Chou, Maria Dolores Andrés-Hernández, and John P. Burrows
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 5149–5163, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5149-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5149-2020, 2020
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05 Jun 2020
Rapid reduction in black carbon emissions from China: evidence from 2009–2019 observations on Fukue Island, Japan
Yugo Kanaya, Kazuyo Yamaji, Takuma Miyakawa, Fumikazu Taketani, Chunmao Zhu, Yongjoo Choi, Yuichi Komazaki, Kohei Ikeda, Yutaka Kondo, and Zbigniew Klimont
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 6339–6356, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6339-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6339-2020, 2020
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20 May 2020
Airborne measurement of peroxy radicals using chemical amplification coupled with cavity ring-down spectroscopy: the PeRCEAS instrument
Midhun George, Maria Dolores Andrés Hernández, Vladyslav Nenakhov, Yangzhuoran Liu, and John Philip Burrows
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 2577–2600, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2577-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2577-2020, 2020
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