A33I-3318:
Comparison of Pandora spectrometer NO2 measurements to aircraft, satellite, and ground measurements during the DISCOVER-AQ Texas campaign
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Laura Judd1, Barry L Lefer1, Jay R Herman2, Nader Abuhassan3, Alexander Cede3, Ronald C Cohen4, Scott J Janz5, Xinrong Ren6, Winston T Luke7 and Russell Long8, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Maryland JCET, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NOAA Science Center, College Park, MD, United States, (7)NOAA-Air Resources Lab, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (8)US EPA, RTP, NC, United States
Abstract:
Pandora spectrometer measurements are compared to other remotely sensed and in-situ NO2 measurements in the Houston, TX region during the third deployment of the DISCOVER-AQ campaign in September 2013. The network of freeways, petrochemical facilities, and related industries contribute to an ongoing pollution problem in the Houston region with the direct emissions of NOx and VOCs producing secondary pollutants such as ozone and PM2.5. The goal of this work is to determine how the Pandora spectrometer column measurements of NO2 compare to in-situ derived and other remotely sensed columns, as well as with ground measurements during this deployment of DISCOVER-AQ. UC Berkeley’s LIF measurements of NO2 aboard the NASA P-3B at each spiral site are used to create the aircraft derived profiles of NO2. The aircraft measured profiles include upwind, source, and receptor sites in the region, three times a day, at eight different locations. In addition, we investigate how the NO2 profile shape changes both spatially and temporally, with a focus on the difference between the boundary layer and free troposphere distributions. Pandora measurements are also compared to column measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument and ACAM aboard the B200 aircraft. Where available, surface measurements are included to supplement aircraft profiles and are correlated to the Pandora column measurements to determine the relationship between the total NO2 column and ground concentrations. Understanding of how these measurements compare spatially and temporally will aid both future Pandora deployments and satellite retrievals.
