Mapping carbon monoxide pollution from space down to city scales with daily global coverage

Daily global maps of carbon monoxide from NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

[1] We present the first observations of tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO) by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. AIRS daily coverage of 70% of the planet represents a significant evolutionary advance in satellite trace gas remote sensing. Tropospheric CO abundances are retrieved from AIRS 4.55 mm spectral region using the full AIRS retrieval algorithm run in ...

Carbon Monoxide Urban Air Pollution: Cardiac Effects

Global carbon monoxide vertical distributions

Global carbon monoxide vertical distributions from spaceborne high-resolution FTIR nadir measurements B. Barret, S. Turquety, D. Hurtmans, C. Clerbaux, J. Hadji-Lazaro, I. Bey, M. Auvray, and P.-F. Coheur Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium Service d’Aéronomie, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Paris, France Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale d...

Wavelet Analysis of Air Pollution due to Carbon Monoxide

Carbon monoxide is the most abundant of the criteria pollutants. High concentration of Carbon monoxide generally occurs in areas with heavy traffic congestion. There are adverse effects on Human health due to the high concentration of CO in the atmosphere. The metropolitan cities are facing such type of problems a lot. In a given signal (data of average CO per day, observed by DPCC Anand Vihar,...

Global carbon monoxide as retrieved from SCIAMACHY by WFM-DOAS

First results concerning the retrieval of tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO) from satellite solar backscatter radiance measurements in the near-infrared spectral region (∼2.3μm) are presented. The Weighting Function Modified (WFM) DOAS retrieval algorithm has been used to retrieve vertical columns of CO from SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT nadir spectra. We present detailed results for three days from the tim...