Has there been any correlation carried out for volcanic activity and CO2 emissions during the course of the AIRS instrument operation?
A. No correlation studies have been carried out. We have a simple flag in our L1B radiance product that is triggered by brightness temperature differences among channels containing SO2 features. The NOAA feed automatically transmits these to warn commercial airlines of possible ash clouds. The NOAA web site that displays granule images for these triggers is located at the URL: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/airs/so2.html And one researcher is using AIRS data to retrieve SO2 amount. Here is a recently published paper: Estimation of the vertical profile of sulfur dioxide injection into the atmosphere by a volcani eruption using satelite column measurements and inverse transport modeling, Eckhardt, S., Prata, A.J., Seibert, P., Steel, K., Stohl., A.
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