Articles | Volume 23, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14577-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14577-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Two years of satellite-based carbon dioxide emission quantification at the world's largest coal-fired power plants
Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, CA, USA
Arizona Institute for Resilience, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Andrew K. Thorpe
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Charles E. Miller
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Alana K. Ayasse
Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, CA, USA
Ralph Jiorle
Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, CA, USA
Riley M. Duren
Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, CA, USA
Arizona Institute for Resilience, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Ray Nassar
Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Jon-Paul Mastrogiacomo
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Robert R. Nelson
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- High-resolution observations of NO2 and CO2 emission plumes from EnMAP satellite measurements C. Borger et al. 10.1088/1748-9326/adc0b1
- Estimating Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plant Water Vapor Plumes Using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning H. Couture et al. 10.3390/rs16071290
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- Global gridded NOx emissions using TROPOMI observations A. Rey-Pommier et al. 10.5194/essd-17-3329-2025
- Monitoring fossil fuel CO2 emissions from co-emitted NO2 observed from space: progress, challenges, and future perspectives H. Li et al. 10.1007/s11783-025-1922-x
- Relating Multi-Scale Plume Detection and Area Estimates of Methane Emissions: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis S. Pandey et al. 10.1021/acs.est.4c07415
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Latest update: 01 Aug 2025
Short summary
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from combustion sources are uncertain in many places across the globe. Satellites have the ability to detect and quantify emissions from large CO2 point sources, including coal-fired power plants. In this study, we tasked two satellites to routinely observe CO2 emissions at 30 coal-fired power plants between 2021 and 2022. These results present the largest dataset of space-based CO2 emission estimates to date.
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