Sulfur dioxide emissions from Peruvian copper smelters detected by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

We use the Weather Research Forecasting with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model to simulate the evolution, dispersion and conversion of the sulfur dioxide (SO2) plume generated by the 2008 eruption of Kasatochi Volcano in Alaska, USA. About 1.7 Tg of SO2 were dispersed into the atmosphere during three distinct explosive events. Stratospheric sulfur dioxide conversion chemistry is detailed and model output is compared to remote sensing retrievals from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). WRF-Chem generated SO2 column densities and plume locations similar to those from OMI retrievals as the plume traveled from the North Pacific through the continental United States and Canada. Analysis of SO2 conversion established an eight day lifetime of SO2 for the Kastaochi plume, which is a slightly shorter lifetime than derived by other modeling methods.

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Measuring Sulfur Dioxide From Space: The Promise of Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on EOS-AURA Platform

Optical Remote Sensing ◽

10.1364/ors.2003.owb3 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Arlin J. Krueger ◽

Nickolay A. Krotkov ◽

Saswati Datta ◽

Dave Flittner ◽

Oleg Dubovik ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sulfur Dioxide ◽

Ozone Monitoring Instrument ◽

Monitoring Instrument ◽

Ozone Monitoring

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Spatiotemporal analysis of solar ultraviolet radiation based on Ozone Monitoring Instrument dataset in Iran, 2005–2019

Environmental Pollution ◽

10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117643 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 117643

Author(s):

Reza Gholamnia ◽

Mehrnoosh Abtahi ◽

Sina Dobaradaran ◽

Ali Koolivand ◽

Sahand Jorfi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Ultraviolet Radiation ◽

Spatiotemporal Analysis ◽

Ozone Monitoring Instrument ◽

Solar Ultraviolet Radiation ◽

Monitoring Instrument ◽

Ozone Monitoring ◽

Solar Ultraviolet

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Science objectives of the ozone monitoring instrument

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ◽

10.1109/tgrs.2006.872336 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 44 (5) ◽

pp. 1199-1208 ◽

Cited By ~ 350

Author(s):

P.F. Levelt ◽

E. Hilsenrath ◽

G.W. Leppelmeier ◽

G.H.J. van den Oord ◽

P.K. Bhartia ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Ozone Monitoring Instrument ◽

Monitoring Instrument ◽

Ozone Monitoring

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Opportunistic validation of sulfur dioxide in the Sarychev Peak volcanic eruption cloud

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ◽

10.5194/amt-4-1705-2011 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (9) ◽

pp. 1705-1712 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

S. A. Carn ◽

T. M. Lopez

Keyword(s):

Sulfur Dioxide ◽

Limited Data ◽

Ozone Monitoring Instrument ◽

Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽

Eruption Cloud ◽

Kurile Islands ◽

Volcanic Cloud ◽

Ozone Monitoring ◽

Lidar Observations ◽

Sarychev Peak

Abstract. We report attempted validation of Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) sulfur dioxide (SO2) retrievals in the stratospheric volcanic cloud from Sarychev Peak (Kurile Islands) in June 2009, through opportunistic deployment of a ground-based ultraviolet (UV) spectrometer (FLYSPEC) as the volcanic cloud drifted over central Alaska. The volcanic cloud altitude (~12–14 km) was constrained using coincident CALIPSO lidar observations. By invoking some assumptions about the spatial distribution of SO2, we derive averages of FLYSPEC vertical SO2 columns for comparison with OMI SO2 measurements. Despite limited data, we find minimum OMI-FLYSPEC differences within measurement uncertainties, which support the validity of the operational OMI SO2 algorithm. However, our analysis also highlights the challenges involved in comparing datasets representing markedly different spatial and temporal scales. This effort represents the first attempt to validate SO2 in a stratospheric volcanic cloud using a mobile ground-based instrument, and demonstrates the need for a network of rapidly deployable instruments for validation of space-based volcanic SO2 measurements.

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Simulation of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument aerosol index using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System aerosol reanalysis products

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ◽

10.5194/amt-10-4121-2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 4121-4134 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Peter R. Colarco ◽

Santiago Gassó ◽

Changwoo Ahn ◽

Virginie Buchard ◽

Arlindo M. da Silva ◽

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Keyword(s):

Radiative Transfer ◽

Surface Pressure ◽

Model Atmosphere ◽

Ozone Monitoring Instrument ◽

Aerosol Optical Property ◽

Actual Surface ◽

Monitoring Instrument ◽

Earth Observing System ◽

Ozone Monitoring ◽

Aerosol Index

Abstract. We provide an analysis of the commonly used Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) aerosol index (AI) product for qualitative detection of the presence and loading of absorbing aerosols. In our analysis, simulated top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiances are produced at the OMI footprints from a model atmosphere and aerosol profile provided by the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS-5) Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications aerosol reanalysis (MERRAero). Having established the credibility of the MERRAero simulation of the OMI AI in a previous paper we describe updates in the approach and aerosol optical property assumptions. The OMI TOA radiances are computed in cloud-free conditions from the MERRAero atmospheric state, and the AI is calculated. The simulated TOA radiances are fed to the OMI near-UV aerosol retrieval algorithms (known as OMAERUV) is compared to the MERRAero calculated AI. Two main sources of discrepancy are discussed: one pertaining to the OMI algorithm assumptions of the surface pressure, which are generally different from what the actual surface pressure of an observation is, and the other related to simplifying assumptions in the molecular atmosphere radiative transfer used in the OMI algorithms. Surface pressure assumptions lead to systematic biases in the OMAERUV AI, particularly over the oceans. Simplifications in the molecular radiative transfer lead to biases particularly in regions of topography intermediate to surface pressures of 600 and 1013.25 hPa. Generally, the errors in the OMI AI due to these considerations are less than 0.2 in magnitude, though larger errors are possible, particularly over land. We recommend that future versions of the OMI algorithms use surface pressures from readily available atmospheric analyses combined with high-spatial-resolution topographic maps and include more surface pressure nodal points in their radiative transfer lookup tables.

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Retrieving vertical ozone profiles from measurements of global spectral irradiance

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ◽

10.5194/amt-10-4979-2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 4979-4994

Author(s):

Germar Bernhard ◽

Irina Petropavlovskikh ◽

Bernhard Mayer

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Total Ozone ◽

Greenland Ice Sheet ◽

Spectral Irradiance ◽

New Method ◽

Ozone Monitoring Instrument ◽

Monitoring Instrument ◽

Ozone Monitoring ◽

Vertical Ozone ◽

Vertical Ozone Profiles

Abstract. A new method is presented to determine vertical ozone profiles from measurements of spectral global (direct Sun plus upper hemisphere) irradiance in the ultraviolet. The method is similar to the widely used Umkehr technique, which inverts measurements of zenith sky radiance. The procedure was applied to measurements of a high-resolution spectroradiometer installed near the centre of the Greenland ice sheet. Retrieved profiles were validated with balloon-sonde observations and ozone profiles from the space-borne Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS). Depending on altitude, the bias between retrieval results presented in this paper and MLS observations ranges between −5 and +3 %. The magnitude of this bias is comparable, if not smaller, to values reported in the literature for the standard Dobson Umkehr method. Total ozone columns (TOCs) calculated from the retrieved profiles agree to within 0.7±2.0 % (±1σ) with TOCs measured by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on board the Aura satellite. The new method is called the Global-Umkehr method.

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