ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-10-5213-2010 Are there urban signatures in the tropospheric ozone column products derived from satellite measurements? Kar J. 1 Fishman J. 2 Creilson J. K. 1 2 Richter A. 3 Ziemke J. 4 Chandra S. 4 Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA, 23666, USA NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, 23681, USA Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany GEST, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA 14 06 2010 10 11 5213 5222 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/5213/2010/acp-10-5213-2010.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/5213/2010/acp-10-5213-2010.pdf

In view of the proposed geostationary satellite missions to monitor air quality from space, it is important to first assess the capability of the current suite of satellite instruments to provide information on the urban scale pollution. We explore the possibility of detecting urban signatures in the tropospheric column ozone data derived from Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)/Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet (SBUV) and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)/Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) satellite data. We find that distinct isolated plumes of tropospheric ozone near several large and polluted cities around the world may be detected in these data sets. The ozone plumes generally correspond with the tropospheric column NO<sub>2</sub> plumes around these cities as observed by the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument. Similar plumes are also seen in tropospheric mean ozone mixing ratio distribution after accounting for the surface and tropopause pressure variations. The total column ozone retrievals indicate fairly significant sensitivity to the lower troposphere over the polluted land areas, which might help explain these detections. These results indicate that ultraviolet (UV) measurements may, in principle, be able to capture the urban signatures and may have implications for future missions using geostationary satellites.

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