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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1949-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1949-2025
Research article
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13 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 13 Feb 2025

Air-pollution-satellite-based CO2 emission inversion: system evaluation, sensitivity analysis, and future research direction

Hui Li, Jiaxin Qiu, and Bo Zheng

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We conduct a sensitivity analysis with 31 tests on various factors including prior emissions, model resolution, satellite constraint, and other system configurations to assess the vulnerability of emission estimates across temporal, sectoral, and regional dimensions. This reveals the robustness of emissions estimated by this air-pollution-satellite-based CO2 emission inversion system, with relative change between tests and base inversion below 4.0 % for national annual NOx and CO2 emissions.
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