Satellite measurements of daily variations in soil NOx emissions

Bertram, T., A. Heckel, A. Richter, J.P. Burrows, and R.C. Cohen (2005), Satellite measurements of daily variations in soil NOx emissions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L24812, doi:10.1029/2005GL024640.
Abstract

Soil NOx emission from agricultural regions in the western United States has been investigated using satellite observations of NO2 from the SCIAMACHY instrument. We show that the SCIAMACHY observations over a 2 million hectare agricultural region in Montana capture the short intense NOx pulses following fertilizer application and subsequent precipitation and we demonstrate that these variations can be reproduced by tuning the mechanistic parameters in an existing model of soil NOx emissions.

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