Errors in top-down estimates of emissions using a known source

Angevine, Wayne M.; Peischl, Jeff; Crawford, Alice; Loughner, Christopher P.; Pollack, Ilana B.; Thompson, Chelsea R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11855-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11855-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11855-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 20

Research article

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22 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 22 Oct 2020

Errors in top-down estimates of emissions using a known source

Wayne M. Angevine, Jeff Peischl, Alice Crawford, Christopher P. Loughner, Ilana B. Pollack, and Chelsea R. Thompson

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review of Angevin et al., 2020', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 May 2020
RC2: 'review comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Jul 2020
AC1: 'Authors' response to reviewer comments', Wayne Angevine, 21 Aug 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Wayne Angevine on behalf of the Authors (21 Aug 2020) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Sep 2020) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

AR by Wayne Angevine on behalf of the Authors (02 Sep 2020)

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AA by Wayne Angevine on behalf of the Authors (21 Oct 2020) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (21 Oct 2020) by Andreas Hofzumahaus

Short summary

Emissions of air pollutants must be known for a wide variety of applications. Different methods of estimating emissions often disagree substantially. In this study, we apply standard methods to a well-known source, a power plant. We explore the uncertainty implied by the different answers that come from the different methods, different samples taken over several years, and different pollutants. We find that the overall uncertainty of emissions estimates is about 30 %.