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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-5017-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-5017-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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20 Dec 2017
Research article |
| 20 Dec 2017
Statistical atmospheric inversion of local gas emissions by coupling the tracer release technique and local-scale transport modelling: a test case with controlled methane emissions
Sébastien Ars
Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement
(LSCE/IPSL), CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Université de Paris-Saclay, Centre d'Etudes Orme
des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Grégoire Broquet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement
(LSCE/IPSL), CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Université de Paris-Saclay, Centre d'Etudes Orme
des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Camille Yver Kwok
Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement
(LSCE/IPSL), CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Université de Paris-Saclay, Centre d'Etudes Orme
des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Yelva Roustan
CEREA, Joint Laboratory École des Ponts ParisTech/EDF
R&D, Université Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Lin Wu
Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement
(LSCE/IPSL), CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Université de Paris-Saclay, Centre d'Etudes Orme
des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Emmanuel Arzoumanian
Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement
(LSCE/IPSL), CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Université de Paris-Saclay, Centre d'Etudes Orme
des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Bousquet
Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement
(LSCE/IPSL), CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Université de Paris-Saclay, Centre d'Etudes Orme
des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Short summary
This study presents a new concept for estimating the pollutant emission rates of a site combining the tracer release method, local-scale atmospheric transport modelling and a statistical atmospheric inversion approach. The potential of this new concept is evaluated with a practical implementation based on a series of inversions of controlled methane and tracer point sources in different spatial configurations to assess the efficiency of the method in comparison with the classic tracer method.
This study presents a new concept for estimating the pollutant emission rates of a site...
