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    Towards a New MAX-DOAS Measurement Site in the Po Valley: Aerosol Optical Depth and NO2 Tropospheric VCDs

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    Castelli, E.
    Pettinari, P.
    Papandrea, E.
    Premuda, M.
    Achilli, A.
    Richter, A.
    Bösch, T.
    Hendrick, F.
    Fayt, C.
    Beirle, S.
    Friedrich, M.M.
    Van Roozendael, M.
    Wagner, T.
    Valeri, M.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    MAX-DOAS
    earth observation
    remote sensing
    Po Valley
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2025
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    Description
    Pollutants information can be retrieved from visible (VIS) and ultraviolet (UV) diffuse solar spectra exploiting Multi-AXis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) instruments. In May 2021, the Italian research institute CNR-ISAC acquired and deployed a MAX-DOAS system SkySpec-2D. It is located in the “Giorgio Fea” observatory in San Pietro Capofiume (SPC), in the middle of the Po Valley, where it has constantly acquired zenith and off-axis diffuse solar spectra since the 1st October 2021. This work presents the retrieved tropospheric NO2 and aerosol extinction profiles (and their columns) derived from the MAX-DOAS measurements using the newly developed DEAP retrieval code. The code has been validated both using synthetic differential Slant Column Densities (dSCDs) from the Fiducial Reference Measurements for Ground-Based DOAS Air-Quality Observations (FRM4DOAS) project and real measured data. For this purpose, DEAP results are compared with the ones obtained with three state-of-the-art retrieval codes. In addition, an inter-comparison with satellite products from Sentinel-5P TROPOMI, for the tropospheric NO2 Vertical Column Densities (VCDs), and MODIS-MAIAC for the tropospheric Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), is performed. We find a bias of −0.6 × 1015 molec/cm2 with a standard deviation of 1.8 × 1015 molec/cm2 with respect to Sentinel-5P TROPOMI for NO2 tropospheric VCDs and of 0.04 ± 0.08 for AOD with respect to MODIS-MAIAC data. The retrieved data show that the SPC measurement site is representative of the background pollution conditions of the Po Valley. For this reason, it is a good candidate for satellite validation and scientific studies over the Po Valley.
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    Castelli, E.; Pettinari, P.; Papandrea, E.; Premuda, M.; Achilli, A.; Richter, A.; Bösch, T.; Hendrick, F.; Fayt, C.; Beirle, S.; Friedrich, M.M.; Van Roozendael, M.; Wagner, T.; Valeri, M. (2025). Towards a New MAX-DOAS Measurement Site in the Po Valley: Aerosol Optical Depth and NO2 Tropospheric VCDs. , Remote Sensing, Vol. 17, Issue 6, A1035, DOI: 10.3390/rs17061035.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/13995
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs17061035
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    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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