Sulfur dioxide layer height retrieval from Sentinel-5 Precursor/TROPOMI using FP_ILM

Hedelt, Pascal; Efremenko, Dmitry S.; Loyola, Diego G.; Spurr, Robert; Clarisse, Lieven

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5503-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 10

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 5503–5517, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5503-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Special issue: TROPOMI on Sentinel-5 Precursor: first year in operation (AMT/ACP...

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 5503–5517, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5503-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 10

Research article 18 Oct 2019

Research article | 18 Oct 2019

Sulfur dioxide layer height retrieval from Sentinel-5 Precursor/TROPOMI using FP_ILM

Pascal Hedelt et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 18 Oct 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 25 Feb 2019)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'Authors’ feedback to “Anonymous Referee #1 Received and published: 14 March 2019”', Pascal Hedelt, 04 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review of Hedelt et al., AMTD 2019', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 May 2019
- AC2: 'Authors’ feedback to Anonymous Referee #2', Pascal Hedelt, 03 Jun 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Pascal Hedelt on behalf of the Authors (15 Jul 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Jul 2019) by Ilse Aben

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (19 Sep 2019)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (19 Sep 2019) by Ilse Aben

AR by Pascal Hedelt on behalf of the Authors (20 Sep 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emitted during volcanic eruptions poses not only a major threat to local populations, air quality, and aviation but also has an impact on the climate. The satellite-based detection of the SO₂ plume is easy; however, it requires exact knowledge of the SO₂ layer height. This paper presents a new method for the extremely fast and accurate determination of the layer height, which is essential in volcanic plume forecasts and the exact determination of the SO₂ density.