Articles | Volume 23, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6599-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6599-2023
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15 Jun 2023
Research article |  | 15 Jun 2023

Monitoring and quantifying CO2 emissions of isolated power plants from space

Xiaojuan Lin, Ronald van der A, Jos de Laat, Henk Eskes, Frédéric Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng, Yuanhao Geng, Xuanren Song, Xiliang Ni, Da Huo, Xinyu Dou, and Zhu Liu

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Satellite observations provide evidence for CO2 emission signals from isolated power plants. We use these satellite observations to quantify emissions. We found that for power plants with multiple observations, the correlation of estimated and reported emissions is significantly improved compared to a single observation case. This demonstrates that accurate estimation of power plant emissions can be achieved by monitoring from future satellite missions with more frequent observations.
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