Verifying national inventory-based combustion emissions of CO<sub>2</sub> across the UK and mainland Europe using satellite observations of atmospheric CO and CO<sub>2</sub>

Scarpelli, Tia R.; Palmer, Paul I.; Lunt, Mark; Super, Ingrid; Droste, Arjan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10773-2024

Articles | Volume 24, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10773-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10773-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 18

Research article

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26 Sep 2024

Research article |

| 26 Sep 2024

Verifying national inventory-based combustion emissions of CO₂ across the UK and mainland Europe using satellite observations of atmospheric CO and CO₂

Tia R. Scarpelli, Paul I. Palmer, Mark Lunt, Ingrid Super, and Arjan Droste

Data sets

OCO-2 Level~2 bias-corrected \chem{XCO_2} and other select fields from the full-physics retrieval aggregated as daily files, Retrospective processing V10r OCO-2 Science Team, et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/E4E140XDMPO2

Copernicus Sentinel-5P, TROPOMI Level 2 Carbon Monoxide total column products ESA https://doi.org/10.5270/S5P-bj3nry0

ICOS Atmosphere Release 2022-1 of Level 2 Greenhouse Gas Mole Fractions of CO2, CH4, N2O, CO, meteorology and 14CO2 ICOS RI https://doi.org/10.18160/KCYX-HA35

UK DECC (Deriving Emissions linked to Climate Change) Network S. O'Doherty, et al. http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/f5b38d1654d84b03ba79060746541e4f/

Model code and software

GEOS-Chem Harvard University https://geoschem.github.io/

Short summary

Under the Paris Agreement, countries must track their anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This study describes a method to determine self-consistent estimates for combustion emissions and natural fluxes of CO₂ from atmospheric data. We report consistent estimates inferred using this approach from satellite data and ground-based data over Europe, suggesting that satellite data can be used to determine national anthropogenic CO₂ emissions for countries where ground-based CO₂ data are absent.

Verifying national inventory-based combustion emissions of CO2 across the UK and mainland Europe using satellite observations of atmospheric CO and CO2

Data sets

Model code and software

Verifying national inventory-based combustion emissions of CO₂ across the UK and mainland Europe using satellite observations of atmospheric CO and CO₂