Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) Observations from EOS/Terra

James R. Drummond; Helen M. Worden

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-2760-9_61

Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) Observations from EOS/Terra

James R. Drummond
, Helen M. Worden

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The Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) Experiment project began in 1988 as a joint effort by Dr. James Drummond (University of Toronto and Dalhousie University) and Dr. John Gille at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The MOPITT instrument was launched on the NASA Terra satellite in 1999 and is the first instrument to make global long-term measurements of tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations. CO plays a key role in tropospheric chemistry and climate and is useful for tracking pollution transport from fires and urban sources due to a lifetime of weeks to months in the atmosphere. The MOPITT instrument measures atmospheric CO abundance using gas correlation radiometers in a nadir-viewing geometry. Analyses of MOPITT data products, combined with chemical transport models and in situ observations, are clarifying and expanding the knowledge of tropospheric chemical processes and the sources of pollutants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	295-306
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811527609
ISBN (Print)	9789811527593
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2760-9_61
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

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