Publications of Steffen Beirle

Boersma, K. F., Eskes, H. J., Richter, A., De Smedt, I., Lorente, A., Beirle, S., Van Geffen, J. H. G. M., Zara, M., Peters , E., Van Roozendael, M., Wagner, T., Maasakkers, J. D., Van der A, R. J., Nightingale, J., De Rudder, A., Irie, H., Pinardi, G., Lambert, J.-C. and Compernolle, S. C.: Improving algorithms and uncertainty estimates for satellite NO₂ retrievals: results from the quality assurance for the essential climate variables (QA4ECV) project, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(12), 6651–6678, doi:10.5194/amt-11-6651-2018, 2018.

De Smedt, I., Theys , N., Yu, H., Danckaert, T., Lerot, C., Compernolle, S., Van Roozendael, M., Richter, A., Hilboll, A., Peters, E., Pedergnana, M., Loyola, D., Beirle, S., Wagner, T., Eskes, H., van Geffen, J., Boersma, K. F. and Veefkind, P.: Algorithm theoretical baseline for formaldehyde retrievals from S5P TROPOMI and from the QA4ECV project, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(4), 2395–2426, doi:10.5194/amt-11-2395-2018, 2018.

Marais, E. A., Jacob, D. J., Choi, S., Joiner, J., Belmonte-Rivas, M., Cohen, R. C., Beirle, S., Murray, L. T., Schiferl, L. D., Shah, V. and Jaegle, L.: Nitrogen oxides in the global upper troposphere: interpreting cloud-sliced NO₂ observations from the OMI satellite instrument, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18(23), 17017–17027, doi:10.5194/acp-18-17017-2018, 2018.

Verstraeten, W. W., Boersma, K. F., Douros, J., Williams, J. E., Eskes, H., Liu, F., Beirle, S. and Delcloo, A.: Top-Down NO_X Emissions of European Cities Based on the Downwind Plume of Modelled and Space-Borne Tropospheric NO₂ Columns, Sensors, 18(9), doi:10.3390/s18092893, 2018.

Wang, Y., Pukite, J., Wagner, T., Donner, S., Beirle, S., Hilboll, A., Vrekoussis, M., Richter, A., Apituley, A., Piters, A., Allaart, M., Eskes, H., Frumau, A., Van Roozendael, M., Lampel, J., Platt, U., Schmitt, S., Swart, D. and Vonk, J.: Vertical Profiles of Tropospheric Ozone From MAX-DOAS Measurements During the CINDI-2 Campaign: Part 1 Development of a New Retrieval Algorithm, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(18), 10637–10670, doi:10.1029/2018JD028647, 2018.

Zara, M., Boersma, K. F., De Smedt, I., Richter, A., Peters, E., van Geffen, J. H. G. M., Beirle, S., Wagner, T., Van Roozendael, M., Marchenko, S., Lamsal, L. N. and Eskes, H. J.: Improved slant column density retrieval of nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde for OMI and GOME-2A from QA4ECV: intercomparison, uncertainty characterisation, and trends, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(7), 4033–4058, doi:10.5194/amt-11-4033-2018, 2018.

Beirle, S., Lampel, J., Lerot, C., Sihler, H. and Wagner, T.: Parameterizing the instrumental spectral response function and its changes by a super-Gaussian and its derivatives, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(2), 581–598, doi:10.5194/amt-10-581-2017, 2017.

Lampel, J., Poehler, D., Polyansky, O. L., Kyuberis, A. A., Zobov, N. F., Tennyson, J., Lodi, L., Friess, U., Wang, Y., Beirle, S., Platt, U. and Wagner, T.: Detection of water vapour absorption around 363 nm in measured atmospheric absorption spectra and its effect on DOAS evaluations, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(2), 1271–1295, doi:10.5194/acp-17-1271-2017, 2017.

Lampel, J., Wang, Y., Hilboll, A., Beirle, S., Sihler, H., Pukite, J., Platt, U. and Wagner, T.: The tilt effect in DOAS observations, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(12), 4819–4831, doi:10.5194/amt-10-4819-2017, 2017.

Liu, F., Beirle, S., Zhang, Q., van der A, R. J., Zheng, B., Tong, D. and He, K.: NOx emission trends over Chinese cities estimated from OMI observations during 2005 to 2015, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(15), 9261–9275, doi:10.5194/acp-17-9261-2017, 2017.

Lorente, A., Boersma, K. F., Yu, H., Dörner, S., Hilboll, A., Richter, A., Liu, M., Lamsal, L. N., Barkley, M., De Smedt, I., Van Roozendael, M., Wang, Y., Wagner, T., Beirle, S., Lin, J. T., Kroktov, N., Stammes, P., Wang, P., Eskes, H. J. and Krol, M.: Structural uncertainty in air mass factor calculation for NO₂ and HCHO satellite retrievals, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(3), 759–782, doi:10.5194/amt-10-759-2017, 2017.

Shaiganfar, R., Beirle, S., van der Gon, H. D., Jonkers, S., Kuenen, J., Petetin, H., Zhang, Q., Beekmann, M. and Wagner, T.: Estimation of the Paris NOx emissions from mobile MAX-DOAS observations and CHIMERE model simulations during the MEGAPOLI campaign using the closed integral method, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(12), 7853–7890, doi:10.5194/acp-17-7853-2017, 2017.

Sihler, H., Lübcke, P., Lang, R., Beirle, S., Graaf, M. de, Hörmann, C., Lampel, J., Penning de Vries, M., Remmers, J., Trollope, E., Wang, Y. and Wagner, T.: In-operation field-of-view retrieval (IFR) for satellite and ground-based DOAS-type instruments applying coincident high-resolution imager data, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(3), 881–903, doi:10.5194/amt-10-881-2017, 2017.

Wang, Y., Beirle, S., Hendrick, F., Hilboll, A., Jin, J., Kyuberis, A. A., Lampel, J., Li, A., Luo, Y., Lodi, L., Ma, J., Navarro , M., Ortega, I., Peters, E., Polyansky, O. L., Remmers, J., Richter, A., Puentedura, O., Van Rozendael, M., Seyler, A., Tennyson, J., Volkamer, R., Xie, P., Zobov, N. F. and Wagner, T.: MAX-DOAS measurements of HONO slant column densities during the MAD-CAT campaign: inter-comparison, sensitivity studies on spectral analysis settings, and error budget, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10, 3719–3742, doi:10.5194/amt-10-3719-2017, 2017.

Wang, Y., Beirle, S., Lampel, J., Koukouli, M., De Smedt, I., Theys, N., Li, A., Wu, D., Xie, P., Liu, C., Van Roozendael, M., Stavrakou, T., Mueller, J.-F. and Wagner, T.: Validation of OMI, GOME-2A and GOME-2B tropospheric NO₂, SO₂ and HCHO products using MAX-DOAS observations from 2011 to 2014 in Wuxi, China: investigation of the effects of priori profiles and aerosols on the satellite products, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(8), 5007–5033, doi:10.5194/acp-17-5007-2017, 2017.

Wang, Y., Lampel, J., Xie, P., Beirle, S., Li, A., Wu, D. and Wagner, T.: Ground-based MAX-DOAS observations of tropospheric aerosols, NO₂, SO₂ and HCHO in Wuxi, China, from 2011 to 2014, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 2189–2215, doi:10.5194/acp-17-2189-2017, 2017.

Beirle, S., Hörmann, C., Jöckel, P., Liu, S., Penning de Vries, M., Pozzer, A., Sihler, H., Valks, P. and Wagner, T.: The STRatospheric Estimation Algorithm from Mainz (STREAM): estimating stratospheric NO2 from nadir-viewing satellites by weighted convolution, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 9(7), 2753–2779, doi:10.5194/amt-9-2753-2016, 2016.

Frieß, U., Baltink, H. K., Beirle, S., Clemer, K., Hendrick, F., Henzing, B., Irie, H., de Leeuw, G., Li, A., Moerman, M. M., van Roozendael, M., Shaiganfar, R., Wagner, T., Wang, Y., Xie, P., Yilmaz, S. and Zieger, P.: Intercomparison of aerosol extinction profiles retrieved from MAX-DOAS measurements, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 9(7), 3205–3222, doi:10.5194/amt-9-3205-2016, 2016.

Hörmann, C., Sihler, H., Beirle, S., Penning de Vries, M., Platt, U. and Wagner, T.: Seasonal variation of tropospheric bromine monoxide over the Rann of Kutch salt marsh seen from space, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(20), 13015–13034, doi:10.5194/acp-16-13015-2016, 2016.

Jin, J., Ma, J., Lin, W., Zhao, H., Shaiganfar, R., Beirle, S. and Wagner, T. K.: MAX-DOAS measurements and satellite validation of tropospheric NO2 and SO2 vertical column densities at a rural site of North China, Atmospheric Environment, 133, 12–25, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.03.031, 2016.