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[AAS11-03] Validation of NO2 vertical profile from remote sensing and estimation of emission rates using airborne measurements
キーワード:airborne measurement, MAX-DOAS, NO2 vertical profile, emission rates
During the Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality (ASIA-AQ) campaign, we conducted airborne measurements using a C90GT aircraft for two distinct research purposes: (1) estimation of emission rates of NO2 from emission sources and (2) validation of NO2 vertical distribution based on ground-based multi-axis differential optical absorption spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) observations and Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) satellite data. For emission rate estimation, research flights were conducted over cattle sheds (using zigzag flight patterns) located on the west coast and in the central part of the Korean Peninsula, respectively. The measured NO2 concentrations were used to estimate emission rates by applying our ensemble model, which combines mass balance and Gaussian footprint methods. For validation of the NO2 vertical distribution, the spiral flights (varying the flight altitude up to 3 km) were conducted three times a day (morning, noon, and afternoon) to capture the temporal evolution of the NO2 layer. These results will help validate bottom-up emission inventories and improve the accuracy of NO2 tropospheric vertical column density estimates from GEMS by updating NO2 vertical profiles to better reflect real-world conditions.