OMI tropospheric NO2 profiles from cloud slicing: Constraints on surface emissions, convective transport and lightning NOx

We derive annual and seasonal global climatologies of tropospheric NO2 profiles from OMI cloudy observations for the year 2006 using the cloud-slicing method on six pressure levels centered at about 280, 380, 500, 620, 720 and 820 hPa. A comparison between OMI and the TM4 model tropospheric NO2 profiles reveals striking overall similarities,...

Impact of aerosols on the OMI tropospheric NO2 retrievals over industrialized regions: How accurate is the aerosol correction of cloud-free scenes via a simple cloud model? (discussion paper)

The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) instrument has provided daily global measurements of tropospheric NO2 for more than a decade. Numerous studies have drawn attention to the complexities related to measurements of tropospheric NO2 in the presence of aerosols. Fine particles affect the OMI spectral measurements and the length of the average...

OMI tropospheric NO2 profiles from cloud slicing: Constraints on surface emissions, convective transport and lightning NOx (discussion paper)

We derive a global climatology of tropospheric NO2 profiles from OMI cloudy observations for the year 2006 using the cloud slicing method on six pressure levels centered about 280, 380, 500, 620, 720 and 820 hPa. A comparison between OMI and the TM4 model tropospheric NO2 profiles reveals striking overall similarities, which confer great...