Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5487-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5487-2021
Research article
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12 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 12 Aug 2021

The Berkeley Environmental Air-quality and CO2 Network: field calibrations of sensor temperature dependence and assessment of network scale CO2 accuracy

Erin R. Delaria, Jinsol Kim, Helen L. Fitzmaurice, Catherine Newman, Paul J. Wooldridge, Kevin Worthington, and Ronald C. Cohen

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Berkeley Environmental Air-quality & CO2 Network (BEACO2N) Cohen Research http://beacon.berkeley.edu

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Short summary
The use of a dense network of low-cost CO2 sensors is an attractive option for measuring CO2 emissions in cities. However, these low-cost sensors are also subject to uncertainties. Here, we describe a novel method of field calibration for correcting temperature-related errors in the CO2 sensors deployed in the BEACO2N network. We show that with this temperature correction, we can achieve a sufficiently low network error to allow for the evaluation of CO2 emissions at a neighborhood scale.