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07 Feb 2018
Research article |
| 07 Feb 2018
The potential of satellite spectro-imagery for monitoring CO2 emissions from large cities
Grégoire Broquet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
François-Marie Bréon
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Emmanuel Renault
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
now at: Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine, 29228
Brest, France
Michael Buchwitz
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen FB1,
Otto Hahn Allee 1, 28334 Bremen, Germany
Maximilian Reuter
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen FB1,
Otto Hahn Allee 1, 28334 Bremen, Germany
Heinrich Bovensmann
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen FB1,
Otto Hahn Allee 1, 28334 Bremen, Germany
Frédéric Chevallier
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Lin Wu
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Short summary
This study assesses the potential of space-borne imagery of CO2 atmospheric concentrations for monitoring the emissions from the Paris area. Such imagery could be provided by European and American missions in the next decade. It highlights the difficulty to improve current knowledge on CO2 emissions for urban areas with CO2 observations from satellites, and calls for more technological innovations in the remote sensing of CO2 and in the models that exploit it.
This study assesses the potential of space-borne imagery of CO2 atmospheric concentrations for...
