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Characterizing uncertainties in atmospheric inversions of fossil fuel CO2 emissions in California
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
Heather Graven
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
Alistair J. Manning
Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, UK
Emily White
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Tim Arnold
National Physical Laboratory, London, UK
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Marc L. Fischer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Seongeun Jeong
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Xinguang Cui
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Matthew Rigby
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Short summary
We investigate potential errors and uncertainties related to the spatial and temporal prior representation of emissions and modelled atmospheric transport for the inversion of California's fossil fuel CO2 emissions. Our results indicate that uncertainties in posterior total state fossil fuel CO2 estimates arising from the choice of prior emissions or atmospheric transport model are on the order of 15 % or less for the ground-based network in California we consider.
We investigate potential errors and uncertainties related to the spatial and temporal prior...
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