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Development and characterisation of a state-of-the-art GOME-2 formaldehyde air-mass factor algorithm
W. Hewson
EOS Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
M. P. Barkley
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
EOS Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
G. Gonzalez Abad
Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
H. Bösch
EOS Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
T. Kurosu
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
R. Spurr
RT Solutions Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA
L. G. Tilstra
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
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- Structural uncertainty in air mass factor calculation for NO2 and HCHO satellite retrievals A. Lorente et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-759-2017
- Spatial distribution analysis of the OMI aerosol layer height: a pixel-by-pixel comparison to CALIOP observations J. Chimot et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2257-2018
- Validation of satellite formaldehyde (HCHO) retrievals using observations from 12 aircraft campaigns L. Zhu et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12329-2020
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (SAO OMPS) formaldehyde retrieval G. González Abad et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2797-2016
- An exploratory study on the aerosol height retrieval from OMI measurements of the 477 nm O2 − O2 spectral band using a neural network approach J. Chimot et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-783-2017
- OMI air-quality monitoring over the Middle East M. Barkley et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4687-2017
- Global biogenic isoprene emissions 2013–2020 inferred from satellite isoprene observations H. Li et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7035-2025
- Five decades observing Earth’s atmospheric trace gases using ultraviolet and visible backscatter solar radiation from space G. Gonzalez Abad et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2019.04.030
- Spatiotemporal variations of tropospheric formaldehyde and its potential sources over Pakistan based on satellite remote sensing A. Mariam et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2025.102483
- Observing atmospheric formaldehyde (HCHO) from space: validation and intercomparison of six retrievals from four satellites (OMI, GOME2A, GOME2B, OMPS) with SEAC4RS aircraft observations over the southeast US L. Zhu et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13477-2016
- Description of a formaldehyde retrieval algorithm for the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) H. Kwon et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3551-2019
- Introduction of Ground-based Remote Sensing and Applications for Air Quality Monitoring S. Park et al. https://doi.org/10.5572/KOSAE.2025.41.2.254
- Directionally dependent Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity (DLER) of the Earth's surface measured by the GOME-2 satellite instruments L. Tilstra et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4219-2021
- Investigation of long–term trends and major sources of atmospheric HCHO over India J. Kuttippurath et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2022.100477
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This work presents the air mass factor (AMF) algorithm in use at the University of Leicester, which introduces scene-specific variables into a per-observation full radiative transfer AMF calculation, including increasing spatial resolution of key environmental parameter databases, input variable area weighting, instrument-specific scattering weight calculation, and inclusion of an ozone vertical profile climatology.
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