MAX-DOAS observations of aerosols, formaldehyde and nitrogen dioxide in the Beijing area: comparison of two profile retrieval approaches

Vlemmix, T.; Hendrick, F.; Pinardi, G.; De Smedt, I.; Fayt, C.; Hermans, C.; Piters, A.; Wang, P.; Levelt, P.; Van Roozendael, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-941-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-941-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-941-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 2

Research article

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25 Feb 2015

Research article |

| 25 Feb 2015

MAX-DOAS observations of aerosols, formaldehyde and nitrogen dioxide in the Beijing area: comparison of two profile retrieval approaches

T. Vlemmix, F. Hendrick, G. Pinardi, I. De Smedt, C. Fayt, C. Hermans, A. Piters, P. Wang, P. Levelt, and M. Van Roozendael

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RC C3216: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Oct 2014
RC C3307: 'Review for Vlemmix et al.', Hilke Oetjen, 22 Oct 2014
AC C4297: 'Authors Response Document AMT-2014-243', Tim Vlemmix, 20 Dec 2014
AC C4299: 'Revised manuscript', Tim Vlemmix, 20 Dec 2014

Short summary

Two methods are compared to retrieve aerosols, formaldehyde and nitrogen dioxide in the lower troposphere from ground-based remote sensing observations of scattered sunlight in multiple viewing directions. Observations were done in the Beijing area (2008–2011). The two methods show good agreement with respect to the total amount (vertical column) and reasonable agreement with respect to concentrations near the surface and first-order estimates of the vertical profile shape.