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            https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-377-2024
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
                the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Evaluation of the first year of Pandora NO2 measurements over Beijing and application to satellite validation
Ouyang Liu
                                            State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing & State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
                                        
                                    
                                            College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
                                        
                                    Zhengqiang Li
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
                                            
                                    
                                            State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing & State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
                                        
                                    Yangyan Lin
                                            College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
                                        
                                    
                                            Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
                                        
                                    Cheng Fan
                                            State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing & State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
                                        
                                    Ying Zhang
                                            State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing & State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
                                        
                                    Kaitao Li
                                            State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing & State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
                                        
                                    Peng Zhang
                                            State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
                                        
                                    Yuanyuan Wei
                                            State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing & State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
                                        
                                    Tianzeng Chen
                                            College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
                                        
                                    
                                            State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
                                        
                                    Jiantao Dong
                                            State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing & State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
                                        
                                    
                                            Satellite Application Center for Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of People's Republic of China, Beijing 100094, China
                                        
                                    Gerrit de Leeuw
                                            State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Satellite Remote Sensing & State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
                                        
                                    
                                            R&D Satellite Observations, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), 3730 AE De Bilt, the Netherlands
                                        
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Latest update: 30 Oct 2025
Short summary
            Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a trace gas which is important for atmospheric chemistry and may affect human health. To understand processes leading to harmful concentrations, it is important to monitor NO2 concentrations near the surface and higher up. To this end, a Pandora instrument has been installed in Beijing. An overview of the first year of data shows the large variability on diurnal to seasonal timescales and how this is affected by wind speed and direction and chemistry.
            Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a trace gas which is important for atmospheric chemistry and may...
            
         
 
                             
                             
             
             
            