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NO2 content variations near St. Petersburg as inferred from ground-based and satellite measurements of scattered solar radiation

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An automatic spectral complex developed at the Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, is described. This complex is used for regular ground-based spectroscopic measurements of the total NO2 content in the vertical column of the atmosphere during the twilight and daylight hours of the day near St. Petersburg (Petrodvorets). In 2004–2006, a number of ground-based twilight measurements of the total NO2 content were obtained near St. Petersburg, and variations in the NO2 content in the troposphere were estimated from the results of daytime ground-based measurements. An example of the spatial annual mean distribution of the NO2 content (central and northern Europe, northwestern Russia) based on the data of satellite measurements over the period 2003–2005 is presented. This example demonstrates the main sources of anthropogenic pollution. An increase in the mean annual contents of tropospheric NO2 near Moscow and St. Petersburg is preliminarily estimated for the entire period of satellite observations with the GOME instrument at about 30–40% over ten years.

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  1. Fock Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Ul’yanovskaya ul. 1, Petrodvorets, 198504, Russia

    A. V. Poberovskii, A. V. Shashkin, D. V. Ionov & Yu. M. Timofeev

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Poberovskii, A.V. Shashkin, D.V. Ionov, Yu.M. Timofeev, 2007, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 547–556.

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Poberovskii, A.V., Shashkin, A.V., Ionov, D.V. et al. NO2 content variations near St. Petersburg as inferred from ground-based and satellite measurements of scattered solar radiation. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 43, 505–513 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433807040123

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