Improving National Air Quality Forecasts with Satellite Aerosol Observations
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Doc #: 44
Title: Improving National Air Quality Forecasts with Satellite Aerosol Observations | Document Link
Organization/Author: J. Al-Saadi
Type: "Journal Article" is not in the list (Report, Workshop, Paper, Website, Presentation, Legislation, Other) of allowed values for the "DocType" property.Journal Article
Year: 2005
Region: North America
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Document Status: Unsubmitted, 2009/08/31
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Satellite: Satellite aerosol observations—which are particularly helpful in tracking long-range transport
aloft—can overcome some of the limitations of surface monitoring networks and enhance
daily air quality forecasts associated with particle pollution.
Just as space-based imagery of clouds and water vapor allows weather patterns to be identified and monitored, satellite sensors capable of detecting trace constituents can show the “chemical weather” over the globe (Fig. 1). The potential benefit of such observations for air quality forecasting is comparable to the revolution experienced by weather forecasters with the advent of operational weather satellites decades ago.
