Articles | Volume 25, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-10747-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-10747-2025
Research article
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18 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 18 Sep 2025

Modeling support for an extensive Δ14CO2 flask sample monitoring campaign over Europe to constrain fossil CO2 emissions

Carlos Gómez-Ortiz, Guillaume Monteil, Ute Karstens, and Marko Scholze

Data sets

Biosphere-atmosphere exchange fluxes for CO2 from the Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model VPRM for 2006-2022 C. Gerbig and F.-T Koch https://doi.org/10.18160/VX78-HVA1

Modeling support for an extensive D14CO2 flask sample monitoring campaign over Europe to constrain fossil CO2 emissions: Postprocessed model outputs and figures. C. Gómez-Ortiz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13842604

COS Atmosphere Release 2024-1 of Level 2 Greenhouse Gas Mole Fractions of CO2, CH4, N2O, CO, meteorology and 14CO2, and flask samples analysed for CO2, CH4, N2O, CO, H2, SF6 and 14C ICOS RI et al. https://doi.org/10.18160/0F1E-DKXT

European anthropogenic CO2 emissions based on EDGARv4.3 and BP statistics 2023 for 2005-2022 F.-T. Koch and C. Gerbig https://doi.org/10.18160/RFJD-QV8J

ODIAC Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Dataset T. Oda and S. Maksyutov https://doi.org/10.17595/20170411.001

Annual emission totals of 14CO2 from nuclear facilities I. Storm et al. https://hdl.handle.net/11676/Qa5PvLgEeiXW3IRAfTU5d_Oo

High-resolution, near-real-time fluxes over Europe from CTE-HR: ocean fluxes 2020-04 2020-04-01–2020-04-30 A. van der Woude et al. https://meta.icos-cp.eu/objects/VcS2nlfN06qH22RgmCWbPMUA

European hourly NEE, GPP and total respiration for 2010--2022 based on LPJ-GUESS (generated in 2023) Z. Wu https://doi.org/10.18160/p52c-1qjm

Model code and software

Lund University Modular Inverse Algorithm (LUMIA) for Δ14CO2 applications G. Monteil et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8426217

Interactive computing environment

Figures: Modeling support for an extensive Δ14CO2 flask sample monitoring campaign over Europe to constrain fossil CO2 emissions Carlos Gómez-Ortiz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13842604

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Short summary
In 2024, an intensive sampling campaign was conducted to improve fossil CO2 emission estimates in Europe using 14C measurements. By testing different strategies for selecting air samples, this study shows that increasing sample frequency and carefully choosing samples based on their fossil fuel and nuclear content leads to more accurate results, reducing the uncertainty and bias of the estimates.
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