Improving aerosol correction of OMI tropospheric NO2 over China, based on a CALIOP climatology – Happy to co-author the work of Liu et al. (2019)!

A very nice work by Mengyao Liu et al. (2019), from Peking University in Beijing, China, has just been published in the Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) journal, on which I am co-author!

This study evaluated the possibility to improve OMI tropospheric NO2 retrieval over China by creating and exploiting an aerosol vertical profile climatology database from 9 years of CALIOP observations. Among other elements, it shows the potential benefits to use satellite observations in a synergistic way (OMI–MODIS-CALIOP) and how to constrain better aerosol models in view of correcting aerosol scattering and absorption effects in UV-vis satellite measurements.

This notably leads to an update of the POMINO dataset from Lin et al. (2014, 2015).

More information?

• Liu et al. (2019): WebBlog page & AMT
• POMINO dataset (OMI tropospheric NO2 over China) from Peking University
• Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)
• NO2 – Nitrogen dioxide
• Aerosols