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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8823-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8823-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
09 Aug 2023
Research article |
| 09 Aug 2023
| 09 Aug 2023
Can we use atmospheric CO2 measurements to verify emission trends reported by cities? Lessons from a 6-year atmospheric inversion over Paris
Origins.earth, SUEZ Group, Tour CB21, 16 Place de l'Iris, 92040 Paris La Défense CEDEX, France
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Thomas Lauvaux
Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique (GSMA), Université de Reims-Champagne Ardenne, UMR CNRS 7331, Reims, France
Hervé Utard
Origins.earth, SUEZ Group, Tour CB21, 16 Place de l'Iris, 92040 Paris La Défense CEDEX, France
François-Marie Bréon
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Grégoire Broquet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Michel Ramonet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Olivier Laurent
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Ivonne Albarus
Origins.earth, SUEZ Group, Tour CB21, 16 Place de l'Iris, 92040 Paris La Défense CEDEX, France
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Mali Chariot
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Simone Kotthaus
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau CEDEX, France
Martial Haeffelin
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau CEDEX, France
Olivier Sanchez
AirParif, 7 rue Crillon, Paris, France
Olivier Perrussel
AirParif, 7 rue Crillon, Paris, France
Hugo Anne Denier van der Gon
Department of Climate, Air and Sustainability, TNO, P.O. Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Stijn Nicolaas Camiel Dellaert
Department of Climate, Air and Sustainability, TNO, P.O. Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street, 2121, Nicosia, Cyprus
Data sets
Warm Winter 2020 ecosystem eddy covariance flux product for 73 stations in FLUXNET-Archive format – release 2022-1 (Version 1.0) Warm Winter 2020 Team and ICOS Ecosystem Thematic Centre https://doi.org/10.18160/2G60-ZHAK
ODIAC Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Dataset T. Oda and S. Maksyutov https://doi.org/10.17595/20170411.001
Carbon Monitor Cities near-real-time daily estimates of CO2 emissions from 1500 cities worldwide (https://cities.carbonmonitor.org/) D. Huo, X. Huang, X. Dou, P. Ciais, Y. Li, Z. Deng, Y. Wang, D. Cui, F. Benkhelifa, and T. Sun https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01657-z
Short summary
This study quantifies urban CO2 emissions via an atmospheric inversion for the Paris metropolitan area over a 6-year period from 2016 to 2021. Results show a long-term decreasing trend of about 2 % ± 0.6 % per year in the annual CO2 emissions over Paris. We conclude that our current capacity can deliver near-real-time CO2 emission estimates at the city scale in under a month, and the results agree within 10 % with independent estimates from multiple city-scale inventories.
This study quantifies urban CO2 emissions via an atmospheric inversion for the Paris...
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