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ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
Volume 4, Issue 9, Pages 1929-1935Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-1929-2011
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- NASA [NNX08AE566]
- NASA Headquarters [NESSF09]
- CARB [06-328]
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We retrieve slant column NO2 from the super-zoom mode of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) to explore its utility for understanding NOx emissions and variability. Slant column NO2 is operationally retrieved from OMI (Boersma et al., 2007; Bucsela et al., 2006) with a nadir footprint of 13 x 24 km(2), the result of averaging eight detector elements on board the instrument. For 85 orbits in late 2004, OMI reported observations from individual super-zoom detector elements (spaced at 13 x 3 km(2) at nadir). We assess the spatial response of these individual detector elements in-flight and determine an upper-bound on spatial resolution of 9 km, in good agreement with on-ground calibration (7 km FWHM). We determine the precision of the super-zoom mode to be 2.1 x 10(15) molecules cm(-2), approximately a factor of root 8 lower than an identical retrieval at operational scale as expected if random noise dominates the uncertainty. We retrieve slant column NO2 over the Satpura power plant in India; Seoul, South Korea; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and a set of large point sources on the Ri-hand Reservoir in India using differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS). Over these sources, the super-zoom mode of OMI observes variation in slant column NO2 of up to 30 x the instrumental precision within one operational footprint.
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