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DOI	10.5194/acp-22-1333-2022
	A new method for inferring city emissions and lifetimes of nitrogen oxides from high-resolution nitrogen dioxide observations: a model study
	Liu, Fei; Tao, Zhining; Beirle, Steffen; Joiner, Joanna; Yoshida, Yasuko; Smith, Steven J.; Knowland, K. Emma; Wagner, Thomas
发表日期	2022
ISSN	1680-7316
EISSN	1680-7324
起始页码	1333
结束页码	1349
卷号	22 期号:2 页码:17
英文摘要	We present a new method to infer emissions and lifetimes of nitrogen oxides (NOx) based on tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) observations together with reanalysis wind fields for cities located in polluted backgrounds. Since the accuracy of the method is difficult to assess due to lack of true values that can be used as a benchmark, we apply the method to synthetic NO2 observations derived from the NASA-Unified Weather Research and Forecasting (NU-WRF) model at a high horizontal spatial resolution of 4 km x 4 km for cities over the continental United States. We compare the inferred emissions and lifetimes with the values given by the NU-WRF model to evaluate the method. The method is applicable to 26 US cities. The derived results are generally in good agreement with the values given by the model, with the relative differences of 2 % +/- 17 % (mean +/- standard deviation) and 15 % +/- 25 % for lifetimes and emissions, respectively. Our investigation suggests that the use of wind data prior to the satellite overpass time improves the performance of the method. The correlation coefficients between inferred and NU-WRF lifetimes increase from 0.56 to 0.79 and for emissions increase from 0.88 to 0.96 when comparing results based on wind fields sampled simultaneously with satellite observations and averaged over 9 h data prior to satellite observations, respectively. We estimate that uncertainties in NOx lifetime and emissions arising from the method are approximately 15 % and 20 %, respectively, for typical (US) cities. The total uncertainties reach up to 43 % (lifetimes) and 45 % (emissions) by considering the additional uncertainties associated with satellite NO2 observations and wind data. We expect this new method to be applicable to NO2 observations from the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) and geostationary satellites, such as Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) or the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, to estimate urban NOx emissions and lifetimes globally.
学科领域	Environmental Sciences; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000751162700001
来源期刊	ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/273723
作者单位	National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Max Planck Society; Science Systems and Applications Inc; United States Department of Energy (DOE); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Morgan State University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Fei,Tao, Zhining,Beirle, Steffen,et al. A new method for inferring city emissions and lifetimes of nitrogen oxides from high-resolution nitrogen dioxide observations: a model study[J],2022,22(2):17.
APA	Liu, Fei.,Tao, Zhining.,Beirle, Steffen.,Joiner, Joanna.,Yoshida, Yasuko.,...&Wagner, Thomas.(2022).A new method for inferring city emissions and lifetimes of nitrogen oxides from high-resolution nitrogen dioxide observations: a model study.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,22(2),17.
MLA	Liu, Fei,et al."A new method for inferring city emissions and lifetimes of nitrogen oxides from high-resolution nitrogen dioxide observations: a model study".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 22.2(2022):17.