Ankie Piters, Marc Allaart, Wesley Sluis, Wytze Lenstra, KNMI. Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. An update on the NO 2 sonde. ESA’s Innovation Triangle Innitiative. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Ankie Piters, Marc Allaart, Wesley Sluis, Wytze Lenstra,
KNMIRoyal Netherlands Meteorological InstituteMinistry of
Infrastructure and EnvironmentAn update on the NO2 sonde
ESAs Innovation Triangle InnitiativeProgramme to foster the
introduction of breakthrough innovations and technologies for space
applications.
Purpose is to make the NO2 sonde ready for serial
production:improve the calibration procedureimprove the
designtransfer the knowledge to industryCooperation with GRAW
radiosondes to produce the sondeDuration of this project: 15
monthsExternal reviewer/advisor: Michel Van Roozendael, BIRA Aim:
user evaluation model end 2013, GRAW product end 2015
MAXDOAS retrievals 25 JunePicture from Folkard Wittrock, IUPBNO2
sonde 25 June
What happened after CINDI?
DISCOVER-AQ campaign 2011, USAaircraft and tethered balloon
measurementsNO2 sonde CRDSprofile measured during aircraft descend,
20 Julythanks to: Russ Dickerson (UMD) and Richard Clark
(Millersville Univ)
PEGASOS campaign May 2012, NetherlandsWeather balloonMarc and
Ankie with 2 sondesZeppelin2 MAX-DOAS-sesNOx analyser
On-ground comparisons with NOx analyser (BLC)~500 m
distanceside-by-side measurementRIVM NOx analyser NO2 sonde 1 min.
average of NO2 sondedata: Lou Gast, RIVMbottle #2bottle
#1#3Sensitivity of luminol increases with time
500 m6:007:008:309:45AQ model (H. Elbern, Univ. Cologne)1200 m0
m27-5-2012
Comparing with modelsmodel data: Henk Eskes and Patricia
Castellanos, KNMI
