Articles | Volume 16, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7743-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-7743-2016
Research article
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24 Jun 2016
Research article |  | 24 Jun 2016

What would dense atmospheric observation networks bring to the quantification of city CO2 emissions?

Lin Wu, Grégoire Broquet, Philippe Ciais, Valentin Bellassen, Felix Vogel, Frédéric Chevallier, Irène Xueref-Remy, and Yilong Wang

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This paper advances atmospheric inversion of city CO2 emissions as follows: (1) illustrate how inversion methodology can be tailored to deal with very large urban networks of sensors measuring CO2 concentrations; (2) demonstrate that atmospheric inversion could be a relevant tool of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of city CO2 emissions; (3) clarify the theoretical potential of inversion for reducing uncertainties in the estimates of citywide total and sectoral CO2 emissions.
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