Articles | Volume 25, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17159-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17159-2025
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01 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 01 Dec 2025

German methane fluxes estimated top-down using ICON–ART – Part 1: Ensemble-enhanced scaling inversion

Valentin Bruch, Thomas Rösch, Diego Jiménez de la Cuesta Otero, Beatrice Ellerhoff, Buhalqem Mamtimin, Niklas Becker, Anne-Marlene Blechschmidt, Jochen Förstner, and Andrea K. Kaiser-Weiss

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German methane fluxes in 2021 estimated with an ensemble-enhanced scaling inversion based on the ICON–ART model Valentin Bruch et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17414768

Short summary
Estimating emissions of greenhouse gases such as methane for individual countries is fundamental for climate mitigation policies. Numerical models can simulate how such emissions are transported to observation sites. Based on the observations, one can estimate the emissions. We describe how operational numerical weather prediction can help determine the model uncertainties and thereby improve the emission estimates. We test our system using simulated observations.
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