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Research article
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26 Apr 2021
Research article |
| 26 Apr 2021
| 26 Apr 2021
Background conditions for an urban greenhouse gas network in the Washington, DC, and Baltimore metropolitan region
Special Programs Office, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Israel Lopez-Coto
Special Programs Office, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University,
Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Sharon M. Gourdji
Special Programs Office, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Kimberly Mueller
Special Programs Office, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Subhomoy Ghosh
Special Programs Office, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 46556, USA
William Callahan
Earth Networks, Germantown, MD 20876, USA
Michael Stock
Earth Networks, Germantown, MD 20876, USA
Elizabeth DiGangi
Earth Networks, Germantown, MD 20876, USA
Steve Prinzivalli
Earth Networks, Germantown, MD 20876, USA
James Whetstone
Special Programs Office, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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Short summary
Estimating city emissions based on atmospheric observations requires that the portion of observed greenhouse gases that originated in the city be separated from the portion that originated outside the city, also known as the background concentration. Here, we investigate different methods to determine background concentrations for the Washington, DC, and Baltimore, MD, region and evaluate how well those methods work and the uncertainties they involve.
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