Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record
Excess atmospheric ammonia (NH _3 ) leads to deleterious effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, air quality and health, and it is therefore essential to monitor its budget and temporal evolution. Hyperspectral infrared satellite sounders provide daily NH _3 observations at global scale for over a deca...
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| author | Martin Van Damme Lieven Clarisse Bruno Franco Mark A Sutton Jan Willem Erisman Roy Wichink Kruit Margreet van Zanten Simon Whitburn Juliette Hadji-Lazaro Daniel Hurtmans Cathy Clerbaux Pierre-François Coheur |
| author_facet | Martin Van Damme Lieven Clarisse Bruno Franco Mark A Sutton Jan Willem Erisman Roy Wichink Kruit Margreet van Zanten Simon Whitburn Juliette Hadji-Lazaro Daniel Hurtmans Cathy Clerbaux Pierre-François Coheur |
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| description | Excess atmospheric ammonia (NH _3 ) leads to deleterious effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, air quality and health, and it is therefore essential to monitor its budget and temporal evolution. Hyperspectral infrared satellite sounders provide daily NH _3 observations at global scale for over a decade. Here we use the version 3 of the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) NH _3 dataset to derive global, regional and national trends from 2008 to 2018. We find a worldwide increase of 12.8 ± 1.3 % over this 11-year period, driven by large increases in east Asia (5.80 ± 0.61% increase per year), western and central Africa (2.58 ± 0.23 % yr ^−1 ), North America (2.40 ± 0.45 % yr ^−1 ) and western and southern Europe (1.90 ± 0.43 % yr ^−1 ). These are also seen in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, while the southwestern part of India exhibits decreasing trends. Reported national trends are analyzed in the light of changing anthropogenic and pyrogenic NH _3 emissions, meteorological conditions and the impact of sulfur and nitrogen oxides emissions, which alter the atmospheric lifetime of NH _3 . We end with a short case study dedicated to the Netherlands and the ‘Dutch Nitrogen crisis’ of 2019. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc2147e66f4c4a7182166b930746b8dc2023-08-09T14:52:43ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262021-01-0116505501710.1088/1748-9326/abd5e0Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite recordMartin Van Damme0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1752-0558Lieven Clarisse1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8805-2141Bruno Franco2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0736-458XMark A Sutton3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1342-2072Jan Willem Erisman4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5058-7012Roy Wichink Kruit5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-650XMargreet van Zanten6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0010-7839Simon Whitburn7https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3279-8152Juliette Hadji-Lazaro8Daniel Hurtmans9Cathy Clerbaux10https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0394-7200Pierre-François Coheur11https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5022-8842Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, Belgium; Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, BelgiumUniversité libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, BelgiumUK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology , Edinburgh, United KingdomInstitute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University , Leiden, The NetherlandsNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) , Bilthoven, The NetherlandsNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) , Bilthoven, The NetherlandsUniversité libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, BelgiumLATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS , Paris, FranceUniversité libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, BelgiumUniversité libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, Belgium; LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS , Paris, FranceUniversité libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, BelgiumExcess atmospheric ammonia (NH _3 ) leads to deleterious effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, air quality and health, and it is therefore essential to monitor its budget and temporal evolution. Hyperspectral infrared satellite sounders provide daily NH _3 observations at global scale for over a decade. Here we use the version 3 of the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) NH _3 dataset to derive global, regional and national trends from 2008 to 2018. We find a worldwide increase of 12.8 ± 1.3 % over this 11-year period, driven by large increases in east Asia (5.80 ± 0.61% increase per year), western and central Africa (2.58 ± 0.23 % yr ^−1 ), North America (2.40 ± 0.45 % yr ^−1 ) and western and southern Europe (1.90 ± 0.43 % yr ^−1 ). These are also seen in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, while the southwestern part of India exhibits decreasing trends. Reported national trends are analyzed in the light of changing anthropogenic and pyrogenic NH _3 emissions, meteorological conditions and the impact of sulfur and nitrogen oxides emissions, which alter the atmospheric lifetime of NH _3 . We end with a short case study dedicated to the Netherlands and the ‘Dutch Nitrogen crisis’ of 2019.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd5e0ammonia (NH3)trendsemissionagriculturebiomass burningIASI |
| spellingShingle | Martin Van Damme Lieven Clarisse Bruno Franco Mark A Sutton Jan Willem Erisman Roy Wichink Kruit Margreet van Zanten Simon Whitburn Juliette Hadji-Lazaro Daniel Hurtmans Cathy Clerbaux Pierre-François Coheur Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record Environmental Research Letters ammonia (NH3) trends emission agriculture biomass burning IASI |
| title | Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record |
| title_full | Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record |
| title_fullStr | Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record |
| title_short | Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record |
| title_sort | global regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal 2008 2018 satellite record |
| topic | ammonia (NH3) trends emission agriculture biomass burning IASI |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd5e0 |
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