Monitoring aerosols over Europe: an assessment of the potential benefit of assimilating the VIS04 measurements from the future MTG/FCI geostationary imager

Descheemaecker, Maxence; Plu, Matthieu; Marécal, Virginie; Claeyman, Marine; Olivier, Francis; Aoun, Youva; Blanc, Philippe; Wald, Lucien; Guth, Jonathan; Sič, Bojan; Vidot, Jérôme; Piacentini, Andrea; Josse, Béatrice

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1251-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1251-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1251-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Research article

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27 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 27 Feb 2019

Monitoring aerosols over Europe: an assessment of the potential benefit of assimilating the VIS04 measurements from the future MTG/FCI geostationary imager

Maxence Descheemaecker, Matthieu Plu, Virginie Marécal, Marine Claeyman, Francis Olivier, Youva Aoun, Philippe Blanc, Lucien Wald, Jonathan Guth, Bojan Sič, Jérôme Vidot, Andrea Piacentini, and Béatrice Josse

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RC1: 'Reviewer's comments', Angela Benedetti, 11 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to the comments of both reviewers and new version of manuscript', Maxence Descheemaecker, 02 Jan 2019
RC2: 'Review of “Monitoring aerosols over Europe: an assessment of the potential benefit of assimilating the VIS04 measurements from the future MTG/FCI geostationary imager” by Descheemaecker et al, 2018', Renske Timmermans, 15 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to the comments of both reviewers and new version of manuscript', Maxence Descheemaecker, 02 Jan 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Matthieu Plu on behalf of the Authors (02 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Jan 2019) by Thomas Eck

RR by Renske Timmermans (02 Feb 2019)

RR by Angela Benedetti (07 Feb 2019)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Feb 2019) by Thomas Eck

AR by Matthieu Plu on behalf of the Authors (11 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The future Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) on board MeteoSat Third Generation is expected to improve the detection and the quantification of aerosols. The study assesses the potential of FCI/VIS04 channel for monitoring air pollution in Europe. An observing system simulation experiment in MOCAGE is developed, and they show a large positive impact of the assimilation over a 4-month period and particularly during a severe pollution episode. The added value of geostationary data is also assessed.