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Research article
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13 Sep 2017
Research article |
| 13 Sep 2017
Estimation of the fossil fuel component in atmospheric CO2 based on radiocarbon measurements at the Beromünster tall tower, Switzerland
Tesfaye A. Berhanu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Sönke Szidat
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Dominik Brunner
Empa, Laboratory for Air Pollution/Environmental Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Ece Satar
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Rüdiger Schanda
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Peter Nyfeler
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Michael Battaglia
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Martin Steinbacher
Empa, Laboratory for Air Pollution/Environmental Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Samuel Hammer
Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Markus Leuenberger
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Short summary
Fossil fuel CO2 is the major contributor of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere, and accurate quantification is essential to better understand the carbon cycle. Such accurate quantification can be conducted based on radiocarbon measurements. In this study, we present radiocarbon measurements from a tall tower site in Switzerland. From these measurements, we have observed seasonally varying fossil fuel CO2 contributions and a biospheric CO2 component that varies diurnally and seasonally.
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