Dan Potts

Dan Potts

PhD Candidate at the University of Leicester. Researching smarter analysis of satellite data for air quality regulators. Earth Observation Enthusiast

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Air quality

New Paper: Identifying and accounting for the Coriolis effect in satellite NO2 observations and emission estimates

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Last year, whilst showing my Environment Agency supervisor some plots of NO2 emission plumes from various power stations around the world, we noticed something. In a wind rotated average, the averaged plume from a German powerstation ever so slightly deviated clockwise from the horizontal axis, and a powerstation we were investigating in South Africa deviated ever so slightly anti-clockwise. That afternoon I ran a few more sites, and after confirming our suspicions I began a 3 month investigation into the Coriolis effect, climate polluters and the impact of curvature on emission estimates. Below is the paper that came from the study, finally published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Coriolis

New Paper: Identifying and accounting for the Coriolis effect in satellite NO2 observations and emission estimates

1 minute read

Published:

Last year, whilst showing my Environment Agency supervisor some plots of NO2 emission plumes from various power stations around the world, we noticed something. In a wind rotated average, the averaged plume from a German powerstation ever so slightly deviated clockwise from the horizontal axis, and a powerstation we were investigating in South Africa deviated ever so slightly anti-clockwise. That afternoon I ran a few more sites, and after confirming our suspicions I began a 3 month investigation into the Coriolis effect, climate polluters and the impact of curvature on emission estimates. Below is the paper that came from the study, finally published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Meteorology

New Paper: Identifying and accounting for the Coriolis effect in satellite NO2 observations and emission estimates

1 minute read

Published:

Last year, whilst showing my Environment Agency supervisor some plots of NO2 emission plumes from various power stations around the world, we noticed something. In a wind rotated average, the averaged plume from a German powerstation ever so slightly deviated clockwise from the horizontal axis, and a powerstation we were investigating in South Africa deviated ever so slightly anti-clockwise. That afternoon I ran a few more sites, and after confirming our suspicions I began a 3 month investigation into the Coriolis effect, climate polluters and the impact of curvature on emission estimates. Below is the paper that came from the study, finally published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Satellite

New Paper: Identifying and accounting for the Coriolis effect in satellite NO2 observations and emission estimates

1 minute read

Published:

Last year, whilst showing my Environment Agency supervisor some plots of NO2 emission plumes from various power stations around the world, we noticed something. In a wind rotated average, the averaged plume from a German powerstation ever so slightly deviated clockwise from the horizontal axis, and a powerstation we were investigating in South Africa deviated ever so slightly anti-clockwise. That afternoon I ran a few more sites, and after confirming our suspicions I began a 3 month investigation into the Coriolis effect, climate polluters and the impact of curvature on emission estimates. Below is the paper that came from the study, finally published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

TROPOMI

New Paper: Identifying and accounting for the Coriolis effect in satellite NO2 observations and emission estimates

1 minute read

Published:

Last year, whilst showing my Environment Agency supervisor some plots of NO2 emission plumes from various power stations around the world, we noticed something. In a wind rotated average, the averaged plume from a German powerstation ever so slightly deviated clockwise from the horizontal axis, and a powerstation we were investigating in South Africa deviated ever so slightly anti-clockwise. That afternoon I ran a few more sites, and after confirming our suspicions I began a 3 month investigation into the Coriolis effect, climate polluters and the impact of curvature on emission estimates. Below is the paper that came from the study, finally published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.