This document summarizes research estimating ground-level PM2.5 concentrations in eastern China using aerosol optical depth (AOD) determined from the Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) satellite instrument. The study finds that GOCI provides reliable hourly AOD measurements over northeast Asia. PM2.5 estimates derived from GOCI-observed AOD correct biases in PM2.5 estimates from a chemical transport model. GOCI-derived PM2.5 shows significant correlation with ground-based PM2.5 measurements in eastern China.
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1. Junwei Xu1
Randall V. Martin1,2, Jhoon Kim3, Myungje Choi3, Qiang Zhang4, Guannan
Geng4, Yang Liu5, Zongwei Ma5,6, Lei Huang6, Yuxuan Wang4,7
Estimating Ground-level PM2.5 in Eastern China
Using Aerosol Optical Depth Determined from
the GOCI Satellite Instrument
1Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
2Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
3Yonsei University. Seoul, Korea
4Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
5Emory University, Atlanta, USA
6Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
7Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Fall AGU
San Francisco
16 Dec 2014
2. PM2.5: A complex mixture of
extremely small particles
and liquid droplets
Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5)
Affects Health and Longevity
WHO:
3.2 million premature DEATHS
per year worldwide
East Asia: 1 million
Lim, et al., The Lancet, 380 (9859) , pp. 2224-2260, 2012
3. Vast Regions Have Insufficient
Measurements of Exposure
Assessment to PM2.5
Locations of Publicly-Available
PM2.5 Monitoring Sites in China
http://113.108.142.147:20035/emcpublish/ van Donkelaar et al., EHP, 2010
Satellite-Derived PM2.5 in China
Satellite
Remote
Sensing
Chemical Transport
Model
Satellite Remote
Sensing Can Fill in
These Gaps
4. Satellite-derived PM2.5: from Satellite Aerosol Optical
Depth (AOD) and Modeled PM2.5/AOD
GEOS-Chem
Chemical Transport Model
GEOS-5 meteorological fields
New Multi-resolution Emission
Inventory for China (MEIC)
emission in 2010
New sulfate chemical formation
mechanism (on aerosol surface at
RH>60)
Model version v9-01-03
Nested CH @ 0.5x0.666
deg horizontal resolution
(Geostationary Ocean Color Imager)
Onboard Korean COMS
(Communication, Ocean, and
Meteorological Satellite)
Geostationary observation satellite
6 visible bands + 2 near-IR bands
Hourly coverage @ 500 m resolution
Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm
Surface reflectance: clear-sky composite
method (30-day 2nd minimum reflectance)
Cloud masking: spatial variability test &
threshold test
We applied additional textural cloud filters
GOCI
5. Evaluating GOCI AOD by Comparing with
Coincident AERONET Ground
Measurements
Evaluating Modeled PM2.5/AOD by Comparing
with Coincident Ground Measurements
Time inconsistency:
Model: 2012 May – 2013 April
Ground: 2013 Jan - Dec
7. Annual Mean GOCI-derived PM2.5
Compared with Ground Measurements
In Situ PM2.5 is better represented by GOCI-derived PM2.5 (slope = 0.91)
than by GEOS-Chem (slope =0.53)
9. Monthly GOCI-derived PM2.5 and Chemical Speciation from
GEOS-Chem over Eastern China
Model indicates:
Massive OM emission
comes from biomass
burning and biofuel
combustion for
heating
Important PM2.5
components:
OM
Sulfate
Dust (in
spring and
fall)
Xing et al., ACP, 2013
10. Summary
GOCI provides reliable hourly AOD over Northeast Asia
GOCI-derived PM2.5 corrects the bias in the modeled PM2.5
GOCI-derived PM2.5 over Eastern China is in significant
correlation with ground measurements
Clear-sky composite method: surface reflectance is determined by minimum reflectance (slight describ ethis so easy to understand the permanent aerosol’s effect on surface reflectance at Taihu in the next slide)
The spatial variability test removes inhomogeneous cloud (as cloud is imhomogeneous compared to aerosol)
The threshold test removes bright clouds
Following the method of Hyer et al., we additionally reduce cloud contamination by applying a
buddy check that removes AOD retrievals without neighbors
and a textural filter that removes AOD retrievals whose
surrounding 5x5 pixels have an average above 0.2 and a
coefficient of variation greater than 0.5.