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28 Jan 2021
Research article |
| 28 Jan 2021
| 28 Jan 2021
Assessment of the TROPOMI tropospheric NO2 product based on airborne APEX observations
Frederik Tack
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
BIRA-IASB, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Alexis Merlaud
BIRA-IASB, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Marian-Daniel Iordache
VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium
Gaia Pinardi
BIRA-IASB, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Ermioni Dimitropoulou
BIRA-IASB, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Henk Eskes
KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Bart Bomans
VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium
Pepijn Veefkind
KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Michel Van Roozendael
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
BIRA-IASB, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
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Short summary
We assess the TROPOMI tropospheric NO2 product (OFFL v1.03.01; 3.5 km × 7 km at nadir observations) based on coinciding airborne APEX reference observations (~75 m × 120 m), acquired over polluted regions in Belgium. The TROPOMI NO2 product meets the mission requirements in terms of precision and accuracy. However, we show that TROPOMI is biased low over polluted areas, mainly due to the limited spatial resolution of a priori input for the AMF computation.
We assess the TROPOMI tropospheric NO2 product (OFFL v1.03.01; 3.5 km × 7 km at nadir...
