Abstract
<strong class="journal-contentHeaderColor">Abstract.</strong> Nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2</sub>) is a major air pollutant. Tropospheric NO<sub>2</sub> vertical column densities (VCDs) retrieved from sun-synchronous satellite instruments have provided abundant NO<sub>2</sub> data for environmental studies, but such data are limited by insufficient temporal sampling (e.g., once a day). The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) launched in February 2020 monitors NO<sub>2</sub> at an unprecedented high temporal resolution. Here we present a research product for tropospheric NO<sub>2</sub> VCDs, referred to as POMINO-GEMS. We develop a hybrid retrieval method combining GEMS and TROPOMI observations as well as GEOS-Chem simulations to generate hourly tropospheric NO<sub>2</sub> slant column densities (SCDs). We then derive tropospheric NO<sub>2</sub> air mass factors (AMFs) with explicit corrections for the anisotropy of surface reflectance and aerosol optical effects, through pixel-by-pixel radiative transfer calculations. Prerequisite cloud parameters are retrieved with the O<sub>2</sub>-O<sub>2</sub> algorithm by using ancillary parameters consistent with those used in NO<sub>2</sub> AMF calculations. Initial retrieval of POMINO-GEMS tropospheric NO<sub>2</sub> VCDs for June–August 2021 reveals strong hotspot signals over megacities and distinctive diurnal variations over polluted and clean areas. POMINO-GEMS NO<sub>2</sub> VCDs agree well with our POMINO-TROPOMI v1.2.2 product (<em>R</em> = 0.97, and NMB = 3.6 %) over Asia. Comparison with ground-based MAX-DOAS VCD data at nine sites shows a small bias of POMINO-GEMS (NMB = –15.7 %); however, the correlation for diurnal variation varies from -0.66 to 0.90, suggesting location-dependent performance. Surface NO<sub>2</sub> concentrations estimated from POMINO-GEMS VCDs are consistent with measurements from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China at 855 sites (NMB = –24.1 %, and <em>R</em> = 0.95 for diurnal correlation averaged over all sites). POMINO-GEMS data will be made freely available for users to study the spatiotemporal variations, sources and impacts of NO<sub>2</sub>.
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