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Exploration of OMI Products for Air Quality Applications Through Comparisons with Models and ObservationsThe Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on board NASA s Aura satellite was launched in July 2004, and is now providing daily global observations of total column ozone, NO2, and SO2, as well as aerosol information. Algorithms have also been developed to produce daily tropospheric ozone and NO2 products. The tropospheric ozone product reported here is a tropospheric residual computed through use of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) ozone profile data to quantify stratospheric ozone. We are investigating the applicability of OMI products for use in air quality modeling, forecasting, and analysis. These investigations include comparison of the OMI tropospheric O3 and NO2 products with global and regional models and with lower tropospheric aircraft observations. Large-scale transport of pollution seen in the OM1 tropospheric O3 data is compared with output from NASA's Global Modeling Initiative global chemistry and transport model. On the regional scale we compare the OMI tropospheric O3 and NO2 with fields from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environmental Protection Agency (NOAA/EPA) operational Eta/CMAQ air quality forecasting model over the eastern United States. This 12-km horizontal resolution model output is roughly of equivalent resolution to the OMI pixel data. Correlation analysis between lower tropospheric aircraft O3 profile data taken by the University of Maryland over the Mid-Atlantic States and OMI tropospheric column mean volume mixing ratio for O3 will be presented. These aircraft data are representative of the lowest 3 kilometers of the atmosphere, the region in which much of the locally-generated and regionally-transported ozone exists.
Document ID
20060026285
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Pickering, K. E.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Ziemke, J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bucsela, E.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Gleason, J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Marufu, L.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Dickerson, R.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Mathur, R.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Davidson, P.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Duncan, B.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bhartia, P. K.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2006
Subject Category
Environment Pollution
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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