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62 CHAPTER 2. ATMOSPHERE AND REMOTE SENSING<br />
2.4.5 An Indoor Test Campaign of the Tomography Long Path Differential<br />
Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) Technique<br />
Participating scientists Kai Uwe Mettendorf, Andreas Hartl and Irene Pundt<br />
Abstract For the validation of the LP-DOAS-tomography method and the test of the Multibeam<br />
DOAS instrument an indoor validation campaign was performed. Known concentration distributions<br />
were successfully measured by 39 intersecting light paths and reconstructed using the SIRT-method.<br />
Figure 2.29: Reconstruction of a concentration distribution by SIRT on a 12×12 pixel grid and with<br />
additional grid shifting. The upper panel shows the original concentration distribution, the lower left<br />
panel the result from modelled column densities and the lower right panel the result from measured<br />
column densities.<br />
Background Long path DOAS tomography is<br />
a novel application of the DOAS-method which<br />
was not been validated before.<br />
Funding DOAS Tomography (BMBF)<br />
Methods and results In this study the twodimensional<br />
long path DOAS tomography measurement<br />
technique was validated by an indoor experiment<br />
with well-known concentration distributions.<br />
The experiment was conducted over an area<br />
of 10m×15m using one and two cylindrical containers<br />
of diameter 2 m, respectively, filled with<br />
NO2. The setup was realized with three of the recently<br />
developed Multibeam instruments (Pundt<br />
and Mettendorf, 2005), which allow the simultaneous<br />
measurement along at least four light paths<br />
each. The configuration consisted of twelve simultaneous<br />
light beams, 39 horizontal light paths in<br />
total, and 16 different cylinder positions inside the<br />
field. It was found that for the discretization and<br />
inversion technique shown here reconstructions of<br />
the concentration distributions from experimental<br />
data agree well with simulated reconstructions. In<br />
order to draw conclusions for atmospheric applications,<br />
numerical studies including instrumental errors<br />
were carried out. It was concluded that with<br />
the presented measurement setup it should be possible<br />
to measure and reconstruct one or two NO2<br />
plumes of 600 m diameter and average concentrations<br />
above 4.2 ppbv each, to a scale of 13.5 km 2 .<br />
Theoretical investigations show that it should be<br />
possible to localize and quantify 600 m diameter<br />
plumes of SO2 > 1.5 ppbv, H2CO > 6.3 ppbv,<br />
HONO > 3.2 ppbv, and O3 > 46.2 ppbv.<br />
Main publication Mettendorf [2005]