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• Version 2 of the global catalogue of large anthropogenic and volcanic SO.sub.2 sources and emissions derived from satellite measurements.

  Authors:Vitali E. Fioletov, Chris A. McLinden, Debora Griffin, Ihab Abboud, Nickolay Krotkov, Peter J. T. Leonard, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 4, 2023419 words Article Sulfur dioxide (SO.sub.2) measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), and TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) satellite spectrometers were used to update and...

• A new machine-learning-based analysis for improving satellite-retrieved atmospheric composition data: OMI SO.sub.2 as an example.

  Authors:Can Li, Joanna Joiner, Fei Liu, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Vitali Fioletov, and Chris McLindenFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 15, Issue 18) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 27, 2022457 words Article Despite recent progress, satellite retrievals of anthropogenic SO.sub.2 still suffer from relatively low signal-to-noise ratios. In this study, we demonstrate a new machine learning data analysis method to improve the...

• Retrieval of total column and surface NO.sub.2 from Pandora zenith-sky measurements

  Authors:Xiaoyi Zhao, Debora Griffin, Vitali Fioletov, Chris McLinden, Jonathan Davies, Akira Ogyu, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 22, 2019275 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Pandora spectrometers can retrieve nitrogen dioxide (NO.sub.2) vertical column densities (VCDs) via two viewing geometries: direct Sun and zenith sky. The direct-Sun NO.sub.2 VCD measurements have high quality...

• Odin--six years of atmospheric limb observations from space/Odin: six ans d'observations du limbe atmospherique a partir de l'espace

  Authors:Chris McLinden, Chris Sioris, and Edward LlewellynFrom:Canadian Journal of Physics (Vol. 85, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 2007924 words Article 1750LThe Odin satellite project, initially proposed in the early 1990s, is a combined astronomy and aeronomy mission undertaken as a joint venture between Sweden, Canada, France, and Finland. Each nation contributed major...

• The world Brewer reference triad - updated performance assessment and new double triad.

  Authors:Xiaoyi Zhao, Vitali Fioletov, Michael Brohart, Volodya Savastiouk, Ihab Abboud, Akira Ogyu, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 23, 2021438 words Article The Brewer ozone spectrophotometer (the Brewer) was designed at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) in the 1970s to make accurate automated total ozone column measurements. Since the 1980s, the Brewer instrument...

• A sulfur dioxide Covariance-Based Retrieval Algorithm (COBRA): application to TROPOMI reveals new emission sources.

  Authors:Nicolas Theys, Vitali Fioletov, Can Li, Isabelle De Smedt, Christophe Lerot, Chris McLinden, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 22) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 17, 2021393 words Brief article Sensitive and accurate detection of sulfur dioxide (SO.sub.2) from space is important for monitoring and estimating global sulfur emissions. Inspired by detection methods applied in the thermal infrared, we present here...

• The Ozone Monitoring Instrument: overview of 14 years in space

  Authors:Pieternel F. Levelt, Joanna Joiner, Johanna Tamminen, J. Pepijn Veefkind, Pawan K. Bhartia, Deborah C. Stein Zweers, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 24, 2018141 words Author abstract, Bri... This overview paper highlights the successes of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on board the Aura satellite spanning a period of nearly 14 years. Data from OMI has been used in a wide range of...

• Development of aerosol optical properties for improving the MESSy photolysis module in the GEM-MACH v2.4 air quality model and application for calculating photolysis rates in a biomass burning plume.

  Authors:Mahtab Majdzadeh, Craig A. Stroud, Christopher Sioris, Paul A. Makar, Ayodeji Akingunola, Chris McLinden, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 12, 2022462 words Article The photolysis module in Environment and Climate Change Canada's online chemical transport model GEM-MACH (GEM: Global Environmental Multi-scale - MACH: Modelling Air quality and Chemistry) was improved to make use of...

• Assessment of the quality of TROPOMI high-spatial-resolution NO.sub.2 data products in the Greater Toronto Area.

  Authors:Xiaoyi Zhao, Debora Griffin, Vitali Fioletov, Chris McLinden, Alexander Cede, Martin Tiefengraber, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 30, 2020423 words Article The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) aboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite (launched on 13 October 2017) is a nadir-viewing spectrometer measuring reflected sunlight in the ultraviolet, visible,...

• Continuation of long-term global SO.sub.2 pollution monitoring from OMI to OMPS

  Authors:Yan Zhang, Can Li, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Joanna Joiner, Vitali Fioletov, and Chris McLindenFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20, 2017454 words Author abstract, Bri... Over the past 20 years, advances in satellite remote sensing of pollution-relevant species have made space-borne observations an increasingly important part of atmospheric chemistry research and air quality...

• TROPOMI/S5P total ozone column data: global ground-based validation and consistency with other satellite missions

  Authors:Katerina Garane, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Tijl Verhoelst, Christophe Lerot, Klaus-Peter Heue, Vitali Fioletov, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 12, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 2, 2019515 words Author abstract, Bri...

  In October 2017, the Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) mission was launched, carrying the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), which provides a daily global coverage at a spatial resolution as high as...

• Optimizing UV Index determination from broadband irradiances

  Authors:Keith A. Tereszchuk, Yves J. Rochon, Chris A. McLinden, and Paul A. VaillancourtFrom:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 27, 201846 words Author abstract, Bri... Byline: Keith A. Tereszchuk, Yves J. Rochon, Chris A. McLinden, Paul A. Vaillancourt To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Assessment of the aerosol optical depths measured by satellite-based passive remote sensors in the Alberta oil sands region

  Authors:Christopher E. Sioris, Chris A. McLinden, Mark W. Shephard, Vitali E. Fioletov, and Ihab AbboudFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 9, 2017183 words Brief article Several satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) products are assessed in terms of their data quality in the Alberta oil sands region. The instruments consist of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer),...

• A systematic error in plane-parallel radiative transfer calculations

  Authors:Chris A. McLinden and Adam E. BourassaFrom:Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (Vol. 67, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

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• Comparison of OSIRIS stratospheric N[O.sub.2] and [O.sub.3] measurements with ground-based Fourier transform spectrometer measurements at the Toronto Atmospheric Observatory (1)

  Authors:Jeffrey R. Taylor, Kimberly Strong, Chris A. McLinden, Douglas A. Degenstein, and Craig S. HaleyFrom:Canadian Journal of Physics (Vol. 85, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20076,650 words Report 1550LAbstract: Stratospheric N[O.SUB.2] and [O.sub.3] retrieved from measurements of limb-scattered sunlight made by the Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager System (OSIRIS) are compared with like observations made by a...

• Biomass burning nitrogen dioxide emissions derived from space with TROPOMI: methodology and validation.

  Authors:Debora Griffin, Chris A. McLinden, Enrico Dammers, Cristen Adams, Chelsea E. Stockwell, Carsten Warneke, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 14, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 21, 2021457 words Article Smoke from wildfires is a significant source of air pollution, which can adversely impact air quality and ecosystems downwind. With the recently increasing intensity and severity of wildfires, the threat to air quality...

• Validation of MAX-DOAS retrievals of aerosol extinction, SO.sub.2, and NO.sub.2 through comparison with lidar, sun photometer, active DOAS, and aircraft measurements in the Athabasca oil sands region

  Authors:ZoA' Y. W. Davis, Udo Frie[sz], Kevin B. Strawbridge, Monika Aggarwaal, Sabour Baray, Elijah G. Schnitzler, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 9, 2020374 words Brief article Vertical profiles of aerosols, NO.sub.2, and SO.sub.2 were retrieved from Multi-Axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) measurements at a field site in northern Alberta, Canada, during August and...

• A stratospheric N[O.sub.2] climatology from Odin/OSIRIS limb-scatter measurements (1)

  Authors:Samuel Brohede, Chris A. McLinden, Gwenael Berthet, Craig S. Haley, Donal Murtagh, and Christopher E. SiorisFrom:Canadian Journal of Physics (Vol. 85, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20079,917 words Report 1500LAbstract: A climatology of stratospheric nitrogen dioxide (N[O.sub.2]), in terms of mean and standard deviation, as a function of latitude (5[degrees] bins); altitude (10-46 km in 2 km bins); local solar time (24 h);...

• A global catalogue of large SO.sub.2 sources and emissions derived from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

  Authors:Vitali E. Fioletov, Chris A. McLinden, Nickolay Krotkov, Can Li, Joanna Joiner, Nicolas Theys, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 18) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 15, 2016308 words Brief article Sulfur dioxide (SO.sub.2) measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) satellite sensor processed with the new principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm were used to detect large point emission sources or...

• Drift-corrected Odin-OSIRIS ozone product: algorithm and updated stratospheric ozone trends

  Authors:Adam E. Bourassa, Chris Z. Roth, Daniel J. Zawada, Landon A. Rieger, Chris A. McLinden, and Douglas A. DegensteinFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 24, 201852 words Author abstract, Bri... Byline: Adam E. Bourassa, Chris Z. Roth, Daniel J. Zawada, Landon A. Rieger, Chris A. McLinden, Douglas A. Degenstein To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this...