The TEMPO Green Paper: Applications in Air Quality and Health, Agriculture, Forestry, and Economics

The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO; tempo.si.edu) satellite instrument will measure atmospheric pollution and much more over North America at high temporal resolution (hourly or better in daylight, with selected observations at 10 minute or better sampling) and high spatial resolution (10 km² at the center of the field of regard). It will measure O₃ profiles (including boundary layer O₃) and columns of NO₂, SO₂, H₂CO, C₂H₂O₂, H₂O, BrO, IO, and HONO, as well as clouds and aerosols. The instrument has been delivered and is awaiting spacecraft integration and launch in the next several years. This talk describes a selection of TEMPO applications based on the TEMPO Green Paper living document (http://tempo.si.edu/presentations.html).

Applications to air quality and health will be summarized and the link with the NASA HAQAST presented. Other applications presented include: biomass burning and O₃ production; aerosol products including synergy with GOES infrared measurements; lightning NO_x; soil NO_x and fertilizer application; crop and forest damage from O₃; chlorophyll and primary productivity; foliage studies; halogens in coastal and lake regions; ship tracks and drilling platform plumes; water vapor studies including atmospheric rivers, hurricanes, and corn sweat; volcanic emissions; air pollution and economic evolution (e.g., for Cuba); high-resolution pollution versus traffic patterns; tidal effects on estuarine circulation and outflow plumes; air quality response to power blackouts and other exceptional events.