Characterization of OMI tropospheric NO2 over the Baltic Sea region

Hey all,

Iolanda’s paper ”Characterization of OMI tropospheric NO₂ over the Baltic Sea region” got published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions. It is an interesting piece of work that is related to the earlier blogpost about the OMI  NO₂ and Google Earth. The main idea of the paper is to study tropospheric NO₂ from the OMI satellite instrument in the Baltic Sea region. The paper shows—among other things—that

1. It is possible to detect shipping lanes also in the challenging Baltic Sea conditions;
2. They are consistent with the emission modeling;
3. It is possible to calculate NO₂ emissions and lifetimes for the cities like Helsinki;

I have also a small contribution in the paper.

Citation: Ialongo, I., Hakkarainen, J., Hyttinen, N., Jalkanen, J.-P., Johansson, L., Boersma, F., Krotkov, N., and Tamminen, J.: Characterization of OMI tropospheric NO2 over the Baltic Sea region, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 14, 2021-2042, doi:10.5194/acpd-14-2021-2014, 2014. Link to the paper.

Iolanda will also present some of this stuff plus more in the 2014 EGU General Assembly.

Cheers,
Janne