2-km resolution oversampled NH3 data

Wang, Rui; Guo, Xuehui; Pan, Da; Kelly, James; Bash, Jesse; Sun, Kang; Paulot, Fabien; Clarisse, Lieven; Van Damme, Martin; Whitburn, Simon; Coheur, Pierre-François; Clerbaux, Cathy; Zondlo, Mark
Issue date: December 2020
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Wang, Rui, Guo, Xuehui, Pan, Da, Kelly, James, Bash, Jesse, Sun, Kang, Paulot, Fabien, Clarisse, Lieven, Van Damme, Martin, Whitburn, Simon, Coheur, Pierre-François, Clerbaux, Cathy, & Zondlo, Mark. (2020). 2-km resolution oversampled NH3 data [Data set]. Princeton University. https://doi.org/10.34770/j1q6-2y79
@electronic{wang_rui_2020,
  author      = {Wang, Rui and
                Guo, Xuehui and
                Pan, Da and
                Kelly, James and
                Bash, Jesse and
                Sun, Kang and
                Paulot, Fabien and
                Clarisse, Lieven and
                Van Damme, Martin and
                Whitburn, Simon and
                Coheur, Pierre-François and
                Clerbaux, Cathy and
                Zondlo, Mark},
  title       = {{2-km resolution oversampled NH3 data}},
  publisher   = {{Princeton University}},
  year        = 2020,
  url         = {https://doi.org/10.34770/j1q6-2y79}
}
Abstract:

Monthly, high resolution (~2 km) ammonia (NH3) column maps from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) were developed across the contiguous United States and adjacent areas. Ammonia hotspots (95th percentile of the column distribution) were highly localized with a characteristic length scale of 12 km and median area of 152 km2. Five seasonality classes were identified with k-means++ clustering. The Midwest and eastern United States had a broad, spring maximum of NH3 (67% of hotspots in this cluster). The western United States, in contrast, showed a narrower mid-summer peak (32% of hotspots). IASI spatiotemporal clustering was consistent with those from the Ammonia Monitoring Network. CMAQ and GFDL-AM3 modeled NH3 columns have some success replicating the seasonal patterns but did not capture the regional differences. The high spatial-resolution monthly NH3 maps serve as a constraint for model simulations and as a guide for the placement of future, ground-based network sites.

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Description:

Monthly, high resolution (~2 km) ammonia (NH3) column maps from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) were developed across the contiguous United States and adjacent areas. Download the README.txt file for a detailed description of this dataset's content.

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1 README.txt 3.13 KB
2 Monthly patterns of ammonia over the contiguous United St... Monthly patterns of ammonia over the contiguous United States at 2 km resolution 126 MB