Country-scale greenhouse gas budgets using shipborne measurements: a case study for the UK and Ireland

Helfter, Carole; Mullinger, Neil; Vieno, Massimo; O'Doherty, Simon; Ramonet, Michel; Palmer, Paul I.; Nemitz, Eiko

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3043-2019

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11 Mar 2019

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| 11 Mar 2019

Country-scale greenhouse gas budgets using shipborne measurements: a case study for the UK and Ireland

Carole Helfter, Neil Mullinger, Massimo Vieno, Simon O'Doherty, Michel Ramonet, Paul I. Palmer, and Eiko Nemitz

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We present a novel approach to estimate the annual budgets of carbon dioxide (881.0 ± 128.5 Tg) and methane (2.55 ± 0.48 Tg) of the British Isles from shipborne measurements taken over a 3-year period (2015–2017). This study brings independent verification of the emission budgets estimated using alternative products and investigates the seasonality of these emissions, which is usually not possible.