Conference proceeding
Importance of a Priori Vertical Ozone Profiles for TEMPO Air Quality Retrievals
p.A52A-03
AGU Fall Meeting 2017
12/11/2017
Abstract
Ozone (O3) is a toxic pollutant which plays a major role in air quality. Typically, monitoring of surface air quality and O3 mixing ratios is conducted using in situ measurement networks. This is partially due to high-quality information related to air quality being limited from space-borne platforms due to coarse spatial resolution, limited temporal frequency, and minimal sensitivity to lower tropospheric and surface-level O3. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) satellite is designed to address the limitations of current space-based platforms and to improve our ability to monitor North American air quality. TEMPO will provide hourly data of total column and vertical profiles of O3 with high spatial resolution to be used as a near-real-time air quality product. TEMPO O3 retrievals will apply the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory profile algorithm developed based on work from GOME (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment), GOME-2, and OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument). This algorithm is suggested to use a priori O3 profile information from a climatological data-base developed from long-term ozone-sonde measurements (tropopause-based (TB-Clim) O3 climatology). This study evaluates the TB-Clim dataset and model simulated O3 profiles, which could potentially serve as a priori O3 profile information in TEMPO retrievals, from near-real-time data assimilation model products (NASA GMAO's (Global Modeling and Assimilation Office) operational GEOS-5 (Goddard Earth Observing System, Version 5) FP (Forecast Products) model and reanalysis data from MERRA2 (Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2)) and a full chemical transport model (CTM), GEOS-Chem. In this study, vertical profile products are evaluated with surface (0-2 kilometers) and tropospheric (0-10 kilometers) TOLNet (Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network) observations and the theoretical impact of individual a priori profile sources on the accuracy of TEMPO O3 retrievals in the troposphere and at the surface are presented. Results indicate that while the TB-Clim climatological dataset can replicate seasonally-averaged tropospheric O3 profiles, model-simulated profiles from a full CTM resulted in more accurate tropospheric and surface-level O3 retrievals from TEMPO when compared to hourly and daily-averaged TOLNet observations. Furthermore, it is shown that when large surface O3 mixing ratios are observed, TEMPO retrieval values at the surface are most accurate when applying CTM a priori profile information compared to all other data products.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Importance of a Priori Vertical Ozone Profiles for TEMPO Air Quality Retrievals
- Creators
- Matthew S. Johnson - Ames Research CenterJohn Sullivan - Goddard Space Flight CenterXiong Liu - Center for Astrophysics Harvard & SmithsonianPeter Zoogman - Center for Astrophysics Harvard & SmithsonianMike Newchurch - Alabama UnivShi Kuang - Alabama UnivThomas McGee - Goddard Space Flight CenterThierry Leblanc - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- p.A52A-03
- Conference
- AGU Fall Meeting 2017
- Publisher
- Ames Research Center
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/11/2017
- Description audience
- PUBLIC
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Technology Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984721113002771
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