Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) satellite observations of ammonia, methanol, formic acid, and carbon monoxide over the Canadian oil sands: Validation and model evaluation

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5189-5211

  Shephard, M W ^a   McLinden, C A ^a   Cady Pereira, K E ^b   Luo, M ^c   Moussa, S G ^a   Leithead, A ^a   Liggio, J ^a   Staebler, R M ^a   Akingunola, A ^a   Makar, P ^a   Lehr, P ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Henze, D K ^d   Millet, D B ^e   Bash, J O ^f   Zhu, L ^g   Wells, K C ^e   Capps, S L ^d,f   Chaliyakunnel, S ^e   Gordon, M ^a,h   Hayden, K ^a   Brook, J R ^a   Wolde, M ⁱ   Li, S M ^a   more..

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^g Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^h YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE SURVEY; AMMONIA; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORMIC ACID; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; METHANOL; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OIL SAND; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETER;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 84951794517     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-5189-2015     Document Type: Article

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