Abstract
The multi-year retrievals of carbon monoxide (CO)by MOPITT (Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere) instrument on board the NASA Terra satellite provide an opportunity for the first time to study quantitatively the transport and sources of pollution in the mid-troposphere. This paper presents the assimilation of the Phase I (March 3, 2000-May 6, 2001) MOPITT retrievals with optimized CO emissions constrained by monthly MOPITT CO data. The observed-minus-forecast (OmF) CO distributions illustrate improvement of this data analysis compared with the assimilation that employs climatological surface fluxes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | L20105 1-5 |
| Journal | Geophysical Research Letters |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 20 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 28 2004 |
Keywords
- 0322 Atmospheric composition and stracture: Constituent sources and sinks
- 0345 Atmospheric composition and structure: Pollution - Urban and regional (0305)
- 0365 Atmospheric composition and structure: Troposphere - Composition and chemistry
- 0368 Atmospheric composition and structure: Troposphere-consistent transport and chemistry