Monitoring Air Quality From Space: The Case for the Geostationary Platform

ahoz, W.A.L., V.-H. Peuch, J. Orphal, J.-L. AttiƩ, K. Chance, X. Liu, D.P. Edwards, H. Elbern, J.-M. Flaud, M. Claeyman, and L.E. Amraoui (2012), Monitoring Air Quality From Space: The Case for the Geostationary Platform, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 221-233.
Abstract

A geostationary multispectral sensor provides the high spatiotemporal resolution continental-scale observations of lower-tropospheric pollutants needed to monitor, forecast, and manage air quality on a daily basis.