Air Quality Remote Sensing Program
Publications and Presentations

Publications

Green, Mark, Shobha Kondragunta, Pubu Ciren, Chuanyu Xu, 2009, Comparison of GOES and MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) to AEosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) AOD and IMPROVE PM2.5 mass at Bondville, Illinois, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (in press).

Christopher, S., P. Gupta, U. Nair, T. A. Jones, S. Kondragunta, Y-L Wu, J. Hand, and X. Zhang, Satellite Remote Sensing and Mesoscale Modeling of the 2007 Georgia/Florida Fires, IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Sciences and Remote Sensing, accepted, 2009

Neil, D., S. Kondragunta, K. Pickering, R. Pinder, G. Osterman, and J. Szykman, Satellite observations for detecting and tracking changes in atmospheric composition, J. of Environmental Monitoring, in review, 2009

Rolph, G., A. F. Stein, R. D. Draxler, A. Taylor, M. Ruminski, S. Kondragunta, H-C. Huang, J. T. McQueen, and P. Davidson, Verification of the NOAA Smoke Forecast: the 2007 Smoke Season, Weather and Forecasting, 2009

Hoff, R., H. Zhag, N. Jordan, A. Prados, J. Engel-Cox, A. Huff, S. Weber, E. Zell, S. Kondragunta, J. Szykman, B. Johns, F. Dimmick, A. Wimmers, Applications of the Three-Dimensional Air Quality System to Western U.S. Air Qulaity: IDEA, Smog Blog, Smog Stories, AirQuest, and the Remote Sensing Information Gateway, J. of Air and Waste Management, 2009

Al-Saadi, J. A. Soja, R. B. Pierce, J. Szykman, C. Wiedinmyer, L. Emmons, S. Kondragunta, X. Zhang, C. Kittaka, T. Schaack, K. Bowman, Intercomparison of Near-Real Time Biomass Burning Emissions Estimates Constrained by Satellite Fire Detection, J. of Applied Remote Sensing, 2009

Zhang, X., S. Kondragunta, C. Schmidt, and F. Kogan, Near real time monitoring of biomass burning particulate emissions (PM2.5) across contiguous United States using multiple satellite instruments, Atmos. Environment, 42, 2008

Zhang, X. and S. Kondragunta, Temporal and spatial variability in biomass burned area across the USA derived from the GOES fire product, Remote Sensing of Environment, 2008

Paciorek, C.J., Liu, Y., Moreno-Macias, H. and S. Kondragunta. 2008. Spatio-temporal associations between GOES aerosol optical depth retrievals and ground-level PM2.5. Environmental Science and Technology 42:5800-5806. DOI: 10.1021/es703181j.

Kondragunta. S., et al., Air quality forecast verification using satellite data, J. of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, doi:10.1175/2007JAMC1392.1, 2008

Prados, A., S. Kondragunta, P. Ciren, K. Knapp, The GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product (GASP) over North America: Comparisons to AERONET and MODIS Observations, J. of Geophys. Res., 112, D15201, doi:10.1029/2006JD007968, 2007

Laszlo, I., P. Ciren, H. Liu, S. Kondragunta, J. D. Tarpley, and M. Goldberg, Remote sensing of aerosol and radiation from geostationary satellites, Advances in Space Research, 2007

Knapp, K., R. Fourin, S. Kondragunta, A. Prados, Toward aerosol optical depth retrievals over land from GOES visible radiances: Determining surface reflectance, Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 26, 4097-4116, 2005. (PDF, 960KB)

Pu, R., Z. Li, P. Gong, I. Csiszar, F. Fraser, W-M. Hao, S. Kodnragunta, and F. Weng, Development and analysis of 12-year daily 1-km forest fire dataset across North America from NOAA/AVHRR data, Remote Sensing and Environment, 2006

Zhang, Xiaoyang and Shobha Kondragunta, 2006: Estimating forest biomass in the USA using generalized allometric models and MODIS land products. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L09402, doi:10.1029/2006GL025879. (PDF, 3.9MB)

Kondragunta, S., L. E. Flynn, A. Neuendorffer, A. J. Miller, C. Long, R. Nagatani, S. Zhou, T. Beck, E. Beach, R. McPeters, R. Stolarski, P. K. Bhartia, M. T. DeLand, L. -K. Huang, Vertical structure of the anomalous 2002 Antarctic ozone hole, J. of Atmospheric Science, 2005

Miller, A. J., R. Nagatani, L. E. Flynn, S. Kondragunta, E. Beach, R. Stolarski, R. Mcpeters, P. K. Bhartia, M. T. DeLand, C. H. Jackman, D. J. Wuebbles, K. O. Patten, and R. P. Cebula, A cohesive total ozone data set from the NOAA satellite system, J. Geophys. Res., 107(0), doi:10.1029/2001JD000853, 2002.

Planet, W. G., A. J. Miller, K. Horvath, R. Nagatani, L. E. Flynn, E. Hilsenrath, S. Kondragunta, R. P. Cebula, and M. T. DeLand, Total Ozone determinations from NOAA operational SBUV/2 observations: an update, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 17,471-17,478, 2001

Park, R. J., G. L. Stenchikov, K. E. Pickering, R. R. Dickerson, D. J. Allen, S. Kondragunta, Regional air pollution and its radiative forcing: studies with a single column chemical and radiation transport model, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 28, 751-28, 770, 2001.

Dickerson, R. R., S. Kondragunta, G. Stenchikov, K. L. Civerolo, B. G. Doddridge, B. Holben, The Impact of Aerosols on Solar UV Radiation and Photochemical Smog, Science, 278, 827-830, 1997.

Ellis, W.G., Jr., A. M. Thompson, S. Kondragunta, K. E. Pickering, R. R. Dickerson, J. R. Scala, and W.-K. Tao, Potential Ozone Production Following Convective Transport Based on Future Emission Scenarios, Atmospheric Environment, 1996.

Stenchikov, G., R. R. Dickerson, K. Pickering, W. G. Ellis, B. Doddridge, S. Kondragunta, O. Poulida, Troposphere-Stratosphere Exchange in a Mid Latitude Mesoscale Convective Complex:Part 2, Numerical Simulations, J. of Geophys. Res., 1996

Haky, J.E. and S. Vemulapalli, Comparison of octadecyl-bonded alumina and other stationary phases for lipophilicity estimation by high performance liquid chromatography, J. of Liquid Chromatography, 13, 1990

Haky, J. E., S. Vemulapalli, and L. Wieserman, Comparison of octadecyl- bonded alumina and silica for reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography, J. of Chromatography, 505, 1990.

Presentations

Zhang, X., Kondragunta,S., Ruminski, M., 2009, Spatiotemporal Variations In Burned Areas And Biomass Burning Emissions Derived From Multiple Satellite-Based Active Fires Across The USA, 18th Annual International Emission Inventory Conference "Comprehensive Inventories - Leveraging Technology and Resources", Baltimore, Maryland, April 14 - 17, 2009 (papers and presentations).

Qiang, Zhao, and S. Kondragunta, 2009, On the Use of Satellite Derived Aerosol Products to Improve PM2.5 Predictions, UMD Atmospheric Chemistry Brown Bag Talk, January 16, 2009, Baltimore, Maryland.

Xu, C., S. Kondragunta, P. Ciren and M. Green, 2008: Spatiotemporal analysis of aerosol optical depth data over the contiguous US from GOES Imager, Aerosol & Atmospheric Optics: Visual Air Quality and Radiation. April 28-May 2, 2008, Moab, Utah.

Xu, C. and S. Kondragunta, P. Ciren, J. Zeng and X. Zhang, 2008: Monitoring the smoke plume from the 2007 Georgia and Florida fire using GOES AOD. AGU Joint Assembly May 27-30, 2008, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Varma Raja, M.K.R. 2008, Hourly Biomass Burning Emissions Inventory Derived From GOES Data. 17th Annual International Emission Inventory Conference "Inventory Evolution - Portal to Improved Air Quality", Portland, Oregon - June 2 - 5, 2008.

Zhang, X, Kondragunta, S., 2008, Biomass Burning Emissions from GOES Imager and simulated GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Fires, 2008 GOES-R Annual Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, 23-26 June 2008.

Pouliot, G., Pierce, T., Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Wiedinmyer, C., Pace, T., and Mobley, D., 2008, The impact of satellite-derived biomass burning emission estimates on air quality, W.M. Hao (ed), Proceedings of SPIE: Remote Sensing and Application, Vol. 7089, 70890F-1-12, SPIE conference, San Diego, California, 10-14 August 2008.

Zhang, X, Kondragunta, S., 2008, Vegetation Burned Areas Derived from Multiple Satellite-based Active Fires, W.M. Hao (ed), Proceedings of SPIE: Remote Sensing and Application, Vol. 7089, 70890D-1-12, SPIE conference, San Diego, California, 10-14 August 2008.

Al-Saadi, J., Soja, A., Pierce, B., Kittaka, C., Emmons, L., Kondragunta, S., Zhang X., Wiedinmyer, C., Schaack, T., Szykman, J., 2007, Global near-real-time estimates of biomass burning emissions using satellite active fire detections. 16th Annual International Emission Inventory Conference Emission Inventories: Integration, Analysis, and Communications, Raleigh, NC, May 14 - 17, 2007.

Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Schmidt, C., 2007, Near real-time monitoring of biomass burning particulate emissions (PM2.5) using multiple satellite data. EastFire07 Conference, Fairfax, Virginia, 5-8 June 2007.

Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., 2007, Estimating burned areas using GOES instantaneous fire sizes, EastFire07 Conference, Fairfax, Virginia, 5-8 June 2007.

Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Schmidt, C., 2007, Biomass combustions from wildland fires derived from the GOES fire radiative power, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 10-14, 2007.

Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S, and Schmidt, C., 2006, Estimates of Biomass Burning Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Emissions from the GOES Imager, 2006 GOES-R User's Conference, 1-3 May 2006, in Boulder, Colorado.

Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., Kogan, F., Guo, W., Schmidt, C., 2006, Satellite-derived pm2.5 emissions from wildfires for air quality forecast, 15th Annual Emission Inventory Conference, May 16-18, 2006, in New Orleans.

Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., Kogan, F., Guo, W., Schmidt, C., 2006, Near Real-time Monitoring of Biomass Burning Particulate Emissions (PM2.5) Using Multiple Satellite Data, AGU Joint Assembly, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-26, 2006.

Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., Kogan, F., Schmidt, C., 2006, Near Real-time Monitoring of Biomass Burning Particulate Emissions (PM2.5) Using Multiple Satellite Data. SPIE Symposium, San Diego, August 13-17, 2006.

Zhang X., Kondragunta, S., 2006, Using GOES Instantaneous fire sizes as a proxy for burned area. GOFC/GOLD 2nd Fire Monitoring Workshop, Germany, December 4-6, 2006.