NDLI: Spatiotemporal Patterns in Data Availability of the Sentinel-5P $NO_{2}$ Product over Urban Areas in Norway

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Spatiotemporal Patterns in Data Availability of the Sentinel-5P $NO_{2}$ Product over Urban Areas in Norway

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Author	Schneider, Philipp Hamer, Paul Kylling, Arve Shetty, Shobitha Stebel, Kerstin
Copyright Year	2021
Abstract	Due to its comparatively high spatial resolution and its daily repeat frequency, the tropospheric nitrogen dioxide product provided by the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) onboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor platform has attracted significant attention for its potential for urban-scale monitoring of air quality. However, the exploitation of such data in, for example, operational assimilation of local-scale dispersion models is often complicated by substantial data gaps due to cloud cover or other retrieval limitations. These challenges are particularly prominent in high-latitude regions where significant cloud cover and high solar zenith angles are often prevalent. Using the example of Norway as a representative case for a high-latitude region, we here evaluate the spatiotemporal patterns in the availability of valid data from the operational TROPOMI tropospheric nitrogen dioxide ( ${NO}_{2}$ ) product over five urban areas (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, and Kristiansand) and a 2.5 year period from July 2018 through November 2020. Our results indicate that even for relatively clean environments such as small Norwegian cities, distinct spatial patterns of tropospheric ${NO}_{2}$ are visible in long-term average datasets from TROPOMI. However, the availability of valid data on a daily level is limited by both cloud cover and solar zenith angle (during the winter months), causing the fraction of valid retrievals in each study site to vary from 20% to 50% on average. A temporal analysis shows that for our study sites and the selected period, the fraction of valid pixels in each domain shows a clear seasonal cycle reaching a maximum of 50% to 75% in the summer months and 0% to 20% in winter. The seasonal cycle in data availability shows the inverse behavior of ${NO}_{2}$ pollution in Norway, which typically has its peak in the winter months. However, outside of the mid-winter period we find the TROPOMI ${NO}_{2}$ product to provide sufficient data availability for detailed mapping and monitoring of ${NO}_{2}$ pollution in the major urban areas in Norway and see potential for the use of the data in local-scale data assimilation and emission inversions applications.
Starting Page	2095
e-ISSN	20724292
DOI	10.3390/rs13112095
Journal	Remote Sensing
Issue Number	11
Volume Number	13
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2021-05-27
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Remote Sensing Air Quality Sentinel-5p Tropomi Nitrogen Dioxide Norway
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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