MEASUREMENT OF TROPOSPHERIC COMPOSITION FROM SPACE IS DIFFICULT! Tropopause Stratopause clouds particles (dust) air scattering water vapor strat ozone layer variable surf. albedo low thermal contrast Mesosphere Stratosphere Ozone layer Troposphere

PRESENT AND SCHEDULED SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS FOR TROPOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY 2002 2002 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004

SOLAR BACKSCATTER OBSERVATIONS FROM SPACE (TOMS, GOME, SCIAMACHY, OMI, OCO) absorption Backscattered intensity IB l1 l2 wavelength Slant optical depth “Slant column” Scattering by Earth surface and by atmosphere EARTH SURFACE

AIR MASS FACTOR (AMF) CONVERTS SLANT COLUMN WS TO VERTICAL COLUMN W “Geometric AMF” (AMFG) for non-scattering atmosphere: q EARTH SURFACE

Illustrative retrieval of HCHO column at 340 nm IN SCATTERING ATMOSPHERE, AMF DEPENDS ON VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF COLUMN Illustrative retrieval of HCHO column at 340 nm “Sigma” vertical coordinate = normalized pressure Instrument sensitivity w(s) (“scattering weight”) what GOME sees Vertical shape factor S(s) (normalized mixing ratio) AMFG = 2.08 actual AMF = 0.71 Palmer et al. [2001]

USE GLOBAL 3-D MODEL DRIVEN BY ASSIMILATED METEOROLOGICAL DATA TO PROVIDE AMFs FOR EVERY SATELLITE VIEWING SCENE GEOS-CHEM MODEL LIDORT RAD.TRANSFER MODEL AMF spectral fit SATELLITE DATA SLANT COLUMN VERTICAL COLUMN Best information applied to each scene Consistency in comparing model and observed columns Apply with any 3-D model (recalculate AMFs using tabulated scattering weights) ADVANTAGES OF 3-D MODEL APPROACH FOR COMPUTING AMFs

THE GOME SATELLITE INSTRUMENT Nadir-viewing solar backscatter instrument (237-794 nm) Low-elevation polar sun-synchronous orbit, 10:30 a.m. observation time Field of view 320x40 km2, three cross-track scenes Complete global coverage in 3 days Operational since 1995 APPLY HERE TO MAPPING OF HCHO AND NO2 TROPOSPHERIC COLUMNS

USE GOME MEASUREMENTS OF NO2 AND HCHO COLUMNS TO MAP NOxAND VOC EMISSIONS Tropospheric NO2 column ~ ENOx Tropospheric HCHO column ~ EVOC ~ 2 km hn (420 nm) BOUNDARY LAYER hn (340 nm) NO2 NO HCHO CO OH hours O3, RO2 hours VOC 1 day HNO3 Emission Deposition Emission NITROGEN OXIDES (NOx) VOLATILE ORGANIC CARBON (VOC)

GOME HCHO SLANT COLUMNS (JULY 1996) T. Kurosu, P.I. Palmer T. Kurosu (SAO) and P. Palmer (Harvard) Hot spots reflect high VOC emissions from fires and biosphere

HCHO COLUMNS FROM GOME OVER U.S.: July 1996 means Palmer et al. [2001] BIOGENIC ISOPRENE IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF HCHO IN U.S. IN SUMMER GEIA isoprene emissions R = 0.83 Bias 14% Precision: 4x1015 cm-2

STRATEGY FOR GOME VALIDATION: USE 3-D MODEL AS INTERMEDIARY GOME OBSERVATIONS IN SITU OBSERVATIONS Aircraft Ground-based Compare Compare GEOS-CHEM model

MODEL vs. OBSERVED HCHO VERTICAL PROFILES OVER U.S. AND N. ATLANTIC Aircraft observations from Y.-N. Lee (SOS) and A. Fried (NARE) SOS (southeast U.S., Jul 1995) Observations Model NARE (N. Atlantic, Sept 1997) Palmer et al. [2001]

MODEL vs. OBSERVED SURFACE HCHO Mean daytime HCHO surface observations Jun-Aug 1988-1998 Model (1996) vs. observations Palmer et al. [2002]

SLANT COLUMNS OF HCHO FROM GOME High values over southeast U. S SLANT COLUMNS OF HCHO FROM GOME High values over southeast U.S. are due to biogenic isoprene emission Note “isoprene volcano” over the Ozarks Palmer et al. [2002]

DEPENDENCE OF GOME HCHO COLUMNS OVER THE OZARKS ON SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE Temperature dependence of isoprene emission (GEIA) Palmer et al. [2002]

USING GOME HCHO COLUMNS TO MAP ISOPRENE EMISSIONS hours OH hn, OH Displacement/smearing length scale 10-100 km Get EISOP vs. WHCHO relationship from GEOS-CHEM

Model HCHO column [1016 molec cm-2] model without isoprene GEOS-CHEM RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HCHO COLUMNS AND ISOPRENE EMISSIONS IN N AMERICA Use relationship to map isoprene emissions from GOME observations NW NE GEOS-CHEM July 1996 Model HCHO column [1016 molec cm-2] SW SE model without isoprene Palmer et al. [2002] Isoprene emission [1013 atomC cm-2 s-1]

GOME GEIA (IGAC inventory) BEIS2 COMPARE TO… MAPPING OF ISOPRENE EMISSIONS FOR JULY 1996 BY SCALING OF GOME FORMALDEHYDE COLUMNS [Palmer et al., 2002] GOME COMPARE TO… GEIA (IGAC inventory) BEIS2 (official EPA inventory)

SLANT COLUMNS OF NO2 FROM GOME Dominant stratospheric contribution (NO2 produced from N2O oxidation) Also see tropospheric hot spots (fossil fuel and biomass burning) Remove stratospheric column and instrument artifacts using data over Pacific Martin et al. [2002a]

SLANT COLUMNS OF TROPOSPHERIC NO2 FROM GOME 1996 Martin et al. [2002]

PROPAGATION OF ERRORS IN NO2 RETRIEVAL (errors e in 1015 molecules cm-2) GOME SPECTRUM (423-451 nm) SLANT NO2 COLUMN TROPOSPHERIC SLANT NO2 COLUMN TROPOSPHERIC NO2 COLUMN Fit spectrum e1 = 0.8 Use Central Pacific GOME data with: HALOE to test strat zonal invariance PEM-Tropics, GEOS-CHEM 3-D model to treat tropospheric residual Remove stratospheric contribution, diffuser plate artifact e2 = 0.4 Use radiative transfer model with: local vertical shape factors from GEOS-CHEM local cloud information from CRAG Apply AMF to convert slant column to vertical column e3 = 0.5-3.2 Martin et al. [2002a]

GOME RETRIEVAL OF TROPOSPHERIC NO2 vs. GEOS-CHEM SIMULATION (July 1996) Martin et al. [2002a] GEIA emissions scaled to 1996

CAN WE USE GOME TO ESTIMATE NOx EMISSIONS. TEST IN U. S CAN WE USE GOME TO ESTIMATE NOx EMISSIONS? TEST IN U.S. WHERE GOOD A PRIORI EXISTS Comparison of GOME retrieval (July 1996) to GEOS-CHEM model fields using EPA emission inventory for NOx GOME GEOS-CHEM (EPA emissions) BIAS = +3% R = 0.79 R = 0.78 Bias = +18% Martin et al. [2002a]