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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]

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