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| Titel |
The CU Airborne MAX-DOAS instrument: vertical profiling of aerosol extinction and trace gases |
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S. Baidar, H. Oetjen, S. Coburn, B. Dix, I. Ortega, R. Sinreich, R. Volkamer |
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1867-1381
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In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ; 6, no. 3 ; Nr. 6, no. 3 (2013-03-14), S.719-739 |
| Datensatznummer |
250017843
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/amt-6-719-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
The University of
Colorado Airborne Multi-Axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (CU
AMAX-DOAS) instrument uses solar stray light to detect and quantify multiple
trace gases, including nitrogen dioxide (NO2), glyoxal (CHOCHO),
formaldehyde (HCHO), water vapor (H2O), nitrous acid (HONO), iodine
monoxide (IO), bromine monoxide (BrO), and oxygen dimers (O4) at
multiple wavelengths (absorption bands at 360, 477, 577, 632 nm)
simultaneously in the open atmosphere. The instrument is unique as it (1)
features a motion compensation system that decouples the telescope field of
view from aircraft movements in real time (<0.35° accuracy), and
(2) includes measurements of solar stray light photons from nadir, zenith,
and multiple elevation angles forward and below the plane by the same
spectrometer/detector system. Sets of solar stray light spectra collected
from nadir to zenith scans provide some vertical profile information within
2 km above and below the aircraft altitude, and the vertical column density
(VCD) below the aircraft is measured in nadir view. Maximum information about
vertical profiles is derived simultaneously for trace gas concentrations and
aerosol extinction coefficients over similar spatial scales and with a
vertical resolution of typically 250 m during aircraft ascent/descent.
The instrument is described, and data from flights over California during the
CalNex (California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate
Change) and CARES (Carbonaceous Aerosols and Radiative Effects Study) air
quality field campaigns is presented. Horizontal distributions of NO2
VCD (below the aircraft) maps are sampled with typically 1 km resolution,
and show good agreement with two ground-based MAX-DOAS instruments
(slope = 0.95 ± 0.09, R2 = 0.86). As a case study vertical profiles of
NO2, CHOCHO, HCHO, and H2O concentrations and aerosol extinction
coefficients, ε, at 477 nm calculated from O4 measurements
from a low approach at Brackett airfield inside the South Coast Air Basin
(SCAB) are presented. These profiles contain ~12 degrees of freedom
(DOF) over a 3.5 km altitude range, an independent information
approximately every 250 m. The boundary layer NO2 concentration, and
the integral aerosol extinction over height (aerosol optical depth, AOD)
agrees well with nearby ground-based in situ NO2 measurement, and
AERONET station. The detection limits of NO2, CHOCHO, HCHO,
H2O442, ϵ360, ϵ477 for 30 s
integration time spectra recorded forward of the plane are 5 ppt, 3 ppt, 100 ppt,
42 ppm, 0.004 km−1, 0.002 km−1 in the free troposphere (FT), and
30 ppt, 16 ppt, 540 ppt, 252 ppm, 0.012 km−1, 0.006 km−1 inside the boundary layer
(BL), respectively. Mobile column observations of trace gases and aerosols
are complimentary to in situ observations, and help bridge the spatial scales
that are probed by satellites and ground-based observations, and predicted by
atmospheric models. |
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