Diego Loyola – Sentinel-5P
The unprecedented spatial resolution offered by Copernicus Sentinel-5P’s Tropomi instrument means that we can now better analyse the complex relationship between tropospheric ozone and climate.
Tag: atmosphere
DACES – Detection of Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Sources
Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)The project aims at developing a new methodology for detecting anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission sources. CO2 data from OCO-2 and NO2, SO2 and CO data from Sentinel-5P are collocated. The plan is to analyze these data in synergy to better detect anthropogenic CO2 sources and plumes. In detail OCO-2 XCO2 data is deseasonalized and detrended, …
SUNLIT – Synergy of Using Nadir and Limb Instruments for Tropospheric ozone monitoring
Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)The SUNLIT project aimed at developing new global tropospheric ozone datasets using combination of total ozone column from OMI and TROPOMI with stratospheric ozone column dataset from several available limb-viewing instruments (MLS, OSIRIS, MIPAS, SCIAMACHY, OMPS-LP, GOMOS). The novelty of the SUNLIT approach is using measurements from several satellite instruments in limb-viewing geometry for deriving …
MethEO – Methane emissions in the Northern Hemisphere by applying both data from Earth Observing (EO) satellites and global atmospheric methane inversion model estimates
Prime company: FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FI)The project will investigate Northern Hemisphere methane (CH4) sources and their connection to the soil freezing and thawing at high latitudes. We will innovatively combine methods for monitoring of CH4 (methane) emissions in the Northern Hemisphere by applying both data from Earth Observing (EO) satellites and global atmospheric methane inversion model estimates. The EO data …
Impact of 3D Cloud Structures on the Atmospheric Trace Gas Products From UV-Vis Sounders (3DCATS)
Prime company: NILU – NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH (NO)In current atmospheric trace gas retrieval schemes exploiting UV-vis sounder data, clouds are treated in a simplistic way ignoring 3D structures and cloud shadows. In this activity, the impact of such cloud effects on trace gas products is quantified, building on statistical analyses of cloud observational data and on 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations …
Andreas Schneider
“The fellowship provided me the opportunity to develop the first TROPOMI HDO data product and the first such product including cloudy scenes.” After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Andreas was at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), working on the development of a a novel balloon-borne instrument for the measurement of HDO and …
Raincast – Scientific Evaluation of Future Atmospheric Mission Concepts to Monitor Precipitation
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)The holistic understanding of the Earth’s water and energy cycle remains one of the grandchallenges that the international scientific community needs to address in the next decade.The Raincast project is a multi-platform and multi-sensor study to address the requirement from theresearch and operational communities for global precipitation measurements. Raincast aims atidentifying and consolidating the science …
PROMCOM: Production of lower tropospheric methane and carbon monoxide distributions through combined use of ESA Sentinel-5 Precursor shortwave infrared and IASI/CrIS thermal infrared satellite data
Prime company: UKRI Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Diane Knappett. Global distributions of the methane (CH4) column average and carbon monoxide (CO) total column are observable by satellite shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectrometers through detection of surface-reflected solar radiation. Observations by ENVISAT SCIAMACHY and GOSAT-TANSO have been exploited extensively to investigate biogenic, pyrogenic and anthropogenic sources …
EOCYTES: Evaluation of the effect of Ozone on Crop Yields and the TErrestrial carbon pool using Satellite data
Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Jasdeep Singh Anand. Terrestrial ecosystems are a major carbon pool, and so act to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. However, vegetation in these carbon pools are damaged by tropospheric O3, which is formed from anthropogenic NOx and aerosol emissions. Damaged vegetation cannot sequester as much carbon, so this …
WIFT: Water vapour Isotopologues From TROPOMI
Prime company: Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NWO-I) (NL)Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Andreas Schneider. The role of atmospheric water vapour in the hydrological cycle, the atmospheric circulation, and the radiation and energy budgets is largely uncertain. Improving knowledge on these is one of the key challenges in atmospheric sciences and of great importance for projections of climate change. Measurements …