Firework Emissions for Satellite Validation?
Jonathan Williams A D , Frank Drewnick A , Silke S. Hings A , Joachim Curtius B , Gunter Eerdekens A , Thomas Klüpfel A and Thomas Wagner CA Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 Mainz, Germany.
B Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere, University of Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
C Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
D Corresponding author. Email: williams@mpch-mainz.mpg.de
Environmental Chemistry 2(2) 94-95 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN05022
Submitted: 8 April 2005 Accepted: 26 April 2005 Published: 24 June 2005
Environmental Context. Satellite-based instruments for monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere observe the distribution of many gases and particles of interest. Many common sources of atmospheric gases and particles, such as fires, are geographically widespread and occur over a moderately long period. In contrast, fireworks pollute only a local area and for a brief period, and thus act as an ideal test of satellite instruments.
Keywords. : analysis & instrumentation — atmospheric chemistry — gases — particles
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Dr Xiaobin Xu and Vinayak Sinha for cultural information regarding China and India. The Rheinland-Pfaiz water quality authority in Mainz are thanked for the cooperation in housing the experiment. Peter DeCarlo and José-Luis Jimenez are gratefully acknowledged for the new data aquisition software used for the aerosol mass spectrometer. S.S.H. was funded by an IMPRS studentship.
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