Nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde measurements from the GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator over Houston, Texas

Nowlan, Caroline R.; Liu, Xiong; Janz, Scott J.; Kowalewski, Matthew G.; Chance, Kelly; Follette-Cook, Melanie B.; Fried, Alan; González Abad, Gonzalo; Herman, Jay R.; Judd, Laura M.; Kwon, Hyeong-Ahn; Loughner, Christopher P.; Pickering, Kenneth E.; Richter, Dirk; Spinei, Elena; Walega, James; Weibring, Petter; Weinheimer, Andrew J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5941-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5941-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5941-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 11

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30 Oct 2018

Research article |

| 30 Oct 2018

Nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde measurements from the GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator over Houston, Texas

Caroline R. Nowlan, Xiong Liu, Scott J. Janz, Matthew G. Kowalewski, Kelly Chance, Melanie B. Follette-Cook, Alan Fried, Gonzalo González Abad, Jay R. Herman, Laura M. Judd, Hyeong-Ahn Kwon, Christopher P. Loughner, Kenneth E. Pickering, Dirk Richter, Elena Spinei, James Walega, Petter Weibring, and Andrew J. Weinheimer

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RC1: 'Review of Nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde measurements from the GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator over Houston, Texas by Nowlan et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Aug 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Referee #2', Caroline Nowlan, 06 Oct 2018
RC2: 'Review of Nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde measurements from the GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator over Houston, Texas by Nowlan et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Aug 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Referee #1', Caroline Nowlan, 06 Oct 2018

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ED: Publish as is (11 Oct 2018) by Michel Van Roozendael

AR by Caroline Nowlan on behalf of the Authors (12 Oct 2018)

Short summary

The GEO-CAPE Airborne Simulator (GCAS) was developed in support of future air quality and ocean color geostationary satellite missions. GCAS flew in its first field campaign on NASA's King Air B-200 aircraft during DISCOVER-AQ Texas in 2013. In this paper, we determine nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde columns over Houston from the GCAS air quality sensor and compare those results with measurements made from ground-based Pandora spectrometers and in situ airborne instruments.