Zhenxing Liang, Dasa Gu, Rui Li, Jian Liu, Chengxing Zhai, Hui Su, Alexis K H Lau
{"title":"Advancing Atmospheric Detection of Weakly Absorbing Reactive Trace Gases Using the FY-3E/HIRAS-II TIR Sounder on a Dawn-Dusk Orbit.","authors":"Zhenxing Liang, Dasa Gu, Rui Li, Jian Liu, Chengxing Zhai, Hui Su, Alexis K H Lau","doi":"10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00501","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00501","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Weakly absorbing reactive trace gases play important roles in the atmospheric environment and usually have short lifetimes ranging from seconds to days. HIRAS-II, the second hyperspectral infrared atmospheric sounder aboard the world's first civilian meteorological satellite in dawn-dusk orbit, FengYun-3E (FY-3E), can theoretically detect more than a dozen weakly absorbing reactive trace gases and make important contributions to global trace gas mapping by filling the gap for diurnal variation. This study uses state-of-the-art weak absorber thermal infrared spectral feature quantification and identification methods to detect weak absorbers from FY-3E/HIRAS-II and successfully capture 14 species from 35.4 million FY-3E/HIRAS-II clear-sky measurements in July 2023. We map the reliable global distribution of spectral features from nine routine reactive gases and find that these gases originate from scenes that are usually of special concern, including densely populated areas, vegetation, and biomass burning. This study confirms the capability of FY-3E/HIRAS-II in detecting weak absorbers and serves as a stepping stone for subsequent research in concentration retrieval. The case of the ammonia column over wildfires retrieved using neural network technology initially demonstrates that FY-3E/HIRAS-II can improve our understanding of the diurnal variation of trace gases by complementing measurements at dawn and dusk.</p>","PeriodicalId":37,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Technology Letters Environ.","volume":"12 7","pages":"848-855"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12243120/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelsey J Pieper, Edward Beighley, C Nathan Jones, Kyla Drewry, Reza Jamshidi, Yuyang Li, Larry Michael, Wilson Mize, Jon Fowlkes, Andrew Blethen, Qi R Wang, Emily Bailey, Michael Kane, Chris Goforth, Evan Kane, Rachael McCaully, Cassidy King, Alisha Webb, Brooke Goggins, Bhavya Duvvuri, Elizabeth Bartuska, Tiffany Tang, Weiyu Li
{"title":"Responding after Hurricane Helene: Rapidly Estimating Impacts to Environmental Health Services in North Carolina.","authors":"Kelsey J Pieper, Edward Beighley, C Nathan Jones, Kyla Drewry, Reza Jamshidi, Yuyang Li, Larry Michael, Wilson Mize, Jon Fowlkes, Andrew Blethen, Qi R Wang, Emily Bailey, Michael Kane, Chris Goforth, Evan Kane, Rachael McCaully, Cassidy King, Alisha Webb, Brooke Goggins, Bhavya Duvvuri, Elizabeth Bartuska, Tiffany Tang, Weiyu Li","doi":"10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00503","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic flooding and infrastructure damage across the mountainous regions of western North Carolina. Responding agencies had to make real-time decisions about emergency response, infrastructure repair, and aid allocation. Here, we describe how our decade-long transdisciplinary research program supported data-driven recovery decisions in the days following a storm through the development of a novel emergency response decision support system (DSS). Integrating publicly available and geospatial data sets, we estimated that 4% of the total land area across the initial 25 disaster declared counties was flooded during Helene. While some areas did not experience a 100-year flood event, others had more severe flooding. We estimated that approximately 19 600 private wells, 34 300 businesses, and 500 fire stations were flooded. This type of real-time information was critical for supporting local health departments (LHDs) and state governments in their requests for emergency relief funding and their planning for emergency needs and assistance. Lessons learned through this effort highlight the importance of codeveloping knowledge and resources and providing actionable data and insights to enhance future disaster response efforts. Overall, our rapidly conceptualized and executed DSS demonstrated how providing actionable intelligence to responding LHDs and state governments can enable more effective distribution of real-time emergency resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":37,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Technology Letters Environ.","volume":"12 7","pages":"820-826"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12243117/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erin P. Shields*, William R. Roberson, Jeffrey V. Ryan and Stephen R. Jackson,
{"title":"","authors":"Erin P. Shields*, William R. Roberson, Jeffrey V. Ryan and Stephen R. Jackson, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Technology Letters Environ.","volume":"12 6","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144418663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren E. Padilla*, Daniel R. Peters, Elizabeth J. Mohr and Ramón A. Alvarez,
{"title":"","authors":"Lauren E. Padilla*, Daniel R. Peters, Elizabeth J. Mohr and Ramón A. Alvarez, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Technology Letters Environ.","volume":"12 6","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144418661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chunzhen Wang, Wenxiu Chen, Lina Yu, Haodi Feng, Kristian Koefoed Brandt, Zhe Tian, Wei An, Juan Liu, Qiao Yao, Song Tang, Qun Gao, Yu Zhang* and Min Yang,