Articles | Volume 8, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3831-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3831-2015
Research article
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18 Sep 2015
Research article |  | 18 Sep 2015

OMI tropospheric NO2 air mass factors over South America: effects of biomass burning aerosols

P. Castellanos, K. F. Boersma, O. Torres, and J. F. de Haan

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Inaccuracies in the retrieval of NO2 tropospheric columns due to the radiative effects of light-absorbing aerosols are not well understood. Here we explicitly account for the effects of aerosols in the Dutch OMI NO2 (DOMINO) tropospheric AMF calculation by including aerosol observations collocated with OMI pixels. The AMF calculations that included aerosol absorption and scattering were on average 10% higher than traditional AMFs. Errors can reach a factor of 2 for individual pixels.