A34B:
Advances in Remote Sensing of Fires, Aerosols, and Trace Gases for Air Quality Applications II

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Session ID#: 15574

Session Description:
Remote sensing data are increasingly used in air quality analysis and prediction. This session solicits advanced remote sensing techniques and instrument concepts for enhancing the spatial and temporal characterization of fires, aerosols, and air quality related trace gases. We invite contributions on topics including but not limited to:

1) Hyperspectral, multiangular, and/or polarimetric remote sensing of fires, aerosols, and air quality trace gases;

2) Novel methods to retrieve vertically resolved aerosol properties and trace gases;

3) Fire characterization from space, especially retrieval of fire energetics and sub-pixel fire properties;

4) Mitigation of cloud contamination in aerosol and trace gas retrievals at the pixel and sub-pixel level;

6) Correction of aerosol effects in trace gas retrievals, and vice versa;

7) Multi-species retrievals, and use of multi-species information content to improve single-species retrieval accuracy.

Primary Convener:  Edward J Hyer, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States
Conveners:  Jun Wang, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States and Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Chairs:  Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States and Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Edward J Hyer, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Trace Gas Measurements from the GeoTASO and GCAS Airborne Instruments: An Instrument and Algorithm Test-Bed for Air Quality Observations from Geostationary Orbit (Invited) (163696)
Caroline R Nowlan1, Xiong Liu1, Scott J Janz2, James W Leitch3, Jassim A Al-Saadi4, Kelly Chance5, Joshua Cole6, Thomas Delker6, Melanie B Follette-Cook2,7, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad5, William S Good6, Matthew G Kowalewski8, Christopher Loughner9,10, Kenneth E Pickering2, Lyle Ruppert6, Dan Soo6, James Szykman11, Luke Valin11 and Peter Zoogman5, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Ball Aerospace, Boulder, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Center (retired), Hampton, United States, (5)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Morgan State University, Baltimore, United States, (8)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (10)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, (11)Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States
A 3D NO2 DOAS System to Capture Urban Concentrations (174634)
Mark Wenig1, Lok Chan1, Ying Zhu1, Annette Maria Natalie Schütt1, Gerrit Kuhlmann2 and Dominik Brunner2, (1)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (2)Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
Near surface concentrations of NO2, O3, H2O and HCHO from Pandora multi-axis DOAS measurements during CINDI-2009 and DISCOVER-AQ (2013-2014) campaigns. (198873)
Elena Spinei Lind1,2, Alexander Cede3,4, Jay R Herman5,6, Nader Abuhassan7,8 and Martin Tiefengraber3, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (3)LuftBlick, Mutters, Austria, (4)Goddard Earth Sciences Technology & Research (GESTAR), Columbia, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Deriving the instrument transfer function from OMI solar observations and its implications for trace gas retrievals (164981)
Kang Sun, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Cambridge, MA, United States, Xiong Liu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, Zhaonan Cai, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China, Kai Yang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States and Kelly Chance, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States
Observing atmospheric formaldehyde (HCHO) from space: validation, intercomparison, trend analysis and public health implications (143956)
Lei Zhu1, Daniel J. Jacob2, Patrick S Kim3, Jenny A Fisher4, Karen Yu3, Katherine Travis5, Loretta J Mickley3, Robert Yantosca1, Melissa Payer Sulprizio1, Isabelle De Smedt6, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad7, Kelly Chance8, Can Li9, Richard Anthony Ferrare5, Alan Fried10, Johnathan W Hair5, Thomas F Hanisco11, Dirk Richter10, Amy Jo Scarino12, James Walega10, Petter Weibring10 and Glenn M Wolfe13, (1)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (2)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Wollongong, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences and School of Chemistry, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (7)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, (9)UMD ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (13)UMBC/NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Constraining hydrocarbon emissions over the Indian subcontinent based on HCHO observations from OMI and GOME-2 (154497)
Sreelekha Chaliyakunnel, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, Dylan B Millet, University of Minnesota, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Saint Paul, United States and Kelley C Wells, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul, United States
Relating Pandora and OMI column-density observations to surface mixing ratio: A statistical analysis of NO2 measurements during the DISCOVER-AQ campaigns (189029)
Debra E Kollonige, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States, Anne M Thompson, University of Maryland Baltimore County at NASA/GSFC, Baltimore, United States, Jay R Herman, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Nader Abuhassan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, James Szykman, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States and Russell Long, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States

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