Articles | Volume 18, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5483-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5483-2018
Research article
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23 Apr 2018
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2018

High-resolution inversion of OMI formaldehyde columns to quantify isoprene emission on ecosystem-relevant scales: application to the southeast US

Jennifer Kaiser, Daniel J. Jacob, Lei Zhu, Katherine R. Travis, Jenny A. Fisher, Gonzalo González Abad, Lin Zhang, Xuesong Zhang, Alan Fried, John D. Crounse, Jason M. St. Clair, and Armin Wisthaler

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OMI/Aura Formaldehyde (HCHO) Total Column 1-orbit L2 Swath 13x24 km V003 Kelly Chance https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/OMI/DATA2015

SEAC4RS Field Campaign Data SEAC4RS Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/aircraft/seac4rs/aerosol-tracegas-cloud

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Isoprene emissions from vegetation have a large effect on atmospheric chemistry and air quality. Here we use the adjoint of GEOS-Chem in an inversion of OMI formaldehyde observations to produce top-down estimates of isoprene emissions in the southeast US during the summer of 2013. We find that MEGAN v2.1 is biased high on average by 40 %. Our downward correction of isoprene emissions leads to a small reduction in modeled surface O3 and decreases the contribution of isoprene to organic aerosol.
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