Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2887-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2887-2020
Research article
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03 Jun 2020
Research article |  | 03 Jun 2020

Towards spaceborne monitoring of localized CO2 emissions: an instrument concept and first performance assessment

Johan Strandgren, David Krutz, Jonas Wilzewski, Carsten Paproth, Ilse Sebastian, Kevin R. Gurney, Jianming Liang, Anke Roiger, and André Butz

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Hestia Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Indianapolis, Indiana K. R. Gurney, R. Patarasuk, J. Liang, Y. Zhou, D. O'Keeffe, M. Hutchins, J. Huang, Y. Song, P. Rao, T. M. Wong, and J. R. Whetstone https://doi.org/10.18434/T4/1503341

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This paper presents the concept of a spaceborne imaging spectrometer targeting the routine monitoring of CO2 emissions from localized point sources down to an emission strength of about 1 Mt CO2 yr-1. Using high-resolution CO2 emission and albedo data, it is shown that CO2 plumes from point sources with an emission strength down to the order of 0.3 Mt CO2 yr-1 can be resolved in an urban environment (when limited by instrument noise only), hence leaving significant margin for additional errors.