Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1413-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1413-2020
Research article
 | 
30 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 30 Mar 2020

Shipborne MAX-DOAS measurements for validation of TROPOMI NO2 products

Ping Wang, Ankie Piters, Jos van Geffen, Olaf Tuinder, Piet Stammes, and Stefan Kinne

Related authors

Cancellation of cloud shadow effects in the absorbing aerosol index retrieval algorithm of TROPOMI
Victor J. H. Trees, Ping Wang, Piet Stammes, Lieuwe G. Tilstra, David P. Donovan, and A. Pier Siebesma
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 73–91, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-73-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-73-2025, 2025
Short summary
Evaluation of Aeolus feature mask and particle extinction coefficient profile products using CALIPSO data
Ping Wang, David Patrick Donovan, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, Jos de Kloe, Dorit Huber, and Katja Reissig
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 5935–5955, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5935-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5935-2024, 2024
Short summary
The EarthCARE lidar cloud and aerosol profile processor (A-PRO): the A-AER, A-EBD, A-TC, and A-ICE products
David Patrick Donovan, Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, and Ping Wang
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 5301–5340, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5301-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5301-2024, 2024
Short summary
Detection of aerosol and cloud features for the EarthCARE atmospheric lidar (ATLID): the ATLID FeatureMask (A-FM) product
Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, David P. Donovan, and Ping Wang
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 3631–3651, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-3631-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-3631-2023, 2023
Short summary
Retrievals of precipitable water vapor and aerosol optical depth from direct sun measurements with EKO MS711 and MS712 spectroradiometers
Congcong Qiao, Song Liu, Juan Huo, Xihan Mu, Ping Wang, Shengjie Jia, Xuehua Fan, and Minzheng Duan
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 1539–1549, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1539-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1539-2023, 2023
Short summary

Related subject area

Subject: Gases | Technique: Remote Sensing | Topic: Validation and Intercomparisons
Atmospheric horizontal gradients measured with eight co-located GNSS stations and a microwave radiometer
Tong Ning and Gunnar Elgered
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 2069–2082, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2069-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2069-2025, 2025
Short summary
Validation of the version 4.5 MAESTRO ozone and NO2 measurements
Paul S. Jeffery, James R. Drummond, C. Thomas McElroy, Kaley A. Walker, and Jiansheng Zou
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 569–602, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-569-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-569-2025, 2025
Short summary
Advancing CH4 and N2O retrieval strategies for NDACC/IRWG high-resolution direct-sun FTIR Observations
Ivan Ortega, James W. Hannigan, Bianca C. Baier, Kathryn McKain, and Dan Smale
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3815,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3815, 2025
Short summary
Performance assessment of the IASI-O3 KOPRA product for observing midlatitude tropospheric ozone evolution for 15 years: validation with ozone sondes and consistency of the three IASI instruments
Gaëlle Dufour, Maxim Eremenko, Juan Cuesta, Gérard Ancellet, Michael Gill, Eliane Maillard Barras, and Roeland Van Malderen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4096,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4096, 2025
Short summary
Long-term evolution of the calibration constant on a mobile/field campaign water vapour Raman lidar
Patrick Chazette, Julien Totems, and Frédéric Laly
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3583,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3583, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Alliwell, S. R., Van Roozendael, M., Johnston, P. V., Richter, A., Wagner, T., Arlander, D. W., Burrows, J. P., Fish, D. J., Jones, R. L., Karlsen Tørnkvist, K., Lambert, J.-C., Pfeilsticker, K., and Pundt, I.: Analysis for BrO in zenith-sky spectra – an intercomparison exercise for analysis improvement, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 4199, https://doi.org/10.1029/2001JD000329, 2002. a
Anderson, G. P., Clough, S. A., Kneizys, F. X., Chetwynd, J. H., Shettle, E. P.: AFGL Atmospheric Constituent Profiles, Technical report, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA, aFGL–TR–86–0110, 1986. a
Bais, A., Dils, B., Gielen, C., Hendrick, F., Pinardi, G., Peters, E., Piters, A., Remmers, J., Richter, A., Wagner, T., Wang, S., and Wang, Y.: Quality indicators on uncertainties and representativity of atmospheric reference data, QA4ECV Report/Deliverable no. D3.9 version 1.0, available at: http://www.qa4ecv.eu/sites/default/files/D3.9.pdf (last access: 23 March 2020), 2016. a
Behrens, L. K., Hilboll, A., Richter, A., Peters, E., Alvarado, L. M. A., Kalisz Hedegaard, A. B., Wittrock, F., Burrows, J. P., and Vrekoussis, M.: Detection of outflow of formaldehyde and glyoxal from the African continent to the Atlantic Ocean with a MAX-DOAS instrument, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 10257–10278, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-10257-2019, 2019. a, b, c, d
Beirle, S., Hörmann, C., Jöckel, P., Liu, S., Penning de Vries, M., Pozzer, A., Sihler, H., Valks, P., and Wagner, T.: The STRatospheric Estimation Algorithm from Mainz (STREAM): estimating stratospheric NO2 from nadir-viewing satellites by weighted convolution, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2753–2779, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2753-2016, 2016. a
Download
Short summary
The comparison of shipborne MAX-DOAS and TROPOMI NO2 products is important for the evaluation of the TROPOMI products. The ship cruises were mainly over remote oceans, thus we only measured background tropospheric NO2. Stratospheric NO2 was measured more accurately because there was almost no contamination from tropospheric NO2. We found that the TROPOMI stratospheric NO2 vertical column densities were slightly higher than the MAX-DOAS measurements.
Share