Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net 1680-7367 1680-7375 9 2 2009 10.5194/acpd-9-10487-2009 http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/10487/2009/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/10487/2009/acpd-9-10487-2009.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/10487/2009/acpd-9-10487-2009.pdf 10487 10511 2009-04-30 Satellite measurements of formaldehyde from shipping emissions T. Marbach marbach@mpch-mainz.mpg.de S. Beirle U. Platt P. Hoor F. Wittrock A. Richter M. Vrekoussis M. Grzegorski J. P. Burrows T. Wagner Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK International shipping is recognized as a pollution source of growing importance, in particular in the remote marine boundary layer. Nitrogen dioxide originating from ship emissions has previously been detected in satellite measurements. This study presents the first satellite measurements of formaldehyde (HCHO) linked to shipping emissions as derived from observations made by the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) instrument. <br><br> We analyzed enhanced HCHO tropospheric columns from shipping emissions over the Indian Ocean between Sri Lanka and Sumatra. This region offers good conditions in term of plume detection with the GOME instrument as all ship tracks follow a single narrow track in the same east-west direction as used for the GOME pixel scanning. The HCHO signal alone is weak but could be clearly seen in the high-pass filtered data. The line of enhanced HCHO in the Indian Ocean as seen in the 7-year composite of cloud free GOME observations clearly coincides with the distinct ship track corridor from Sri Lanka to Indonesia. 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