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UP: Umweltphysik

UP 23: Atmosph
äre und Klima

UP 23.2: Fachvortrag

Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 16:45–17:00, D

Global anthropogenic SO2 emissions monitored by GOME instrument — •Muhammad Fahim Khokhar, Steffen Beirle, Ulrich Platt, and Thomas Wagner — Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Germmany

The industrial revolution increased the concentrations of greenhouse gases, aerosols and aerosol precursor gases. All of them have potential to alter the climate on regional and global scale. In this work, we present analysis of GOME observations for anthropogenic SO2 emissions from different parts of the world. Additionally, a comparison with GOME observations of anthropogenic NO2 column amounts is presented. The GOME observations showed enhancements of SO2 column amounts due to anthropogenic emission sources. These enhancements are identified from the regions with extensive burning of coal, smelting of metal ores and heavy industrial activities such as from China, Eastern USA, the Arabian Peninsula, Eastern Europe, South Africa, and particularly Norilsk, Russia (see figure 6.20). GOME*s ability to detect anthropogenic SO2 emissions even at higher latitude particularly over Norilsk (Russia) makes it apart from the other conventional instruments carried by other spacecrafts.