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Real-world wintertime CO, N2O, and CO2 emissions of a central European village
Institute for Nuclear Research, Debrecen, 4026, Hungary
Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, Sopron, 9400, Hungary
Zoltán Barcza
Department of Meteorology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
Excellence Center, Faculty of Science, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Martonvásár, 2462, Hungary
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life
Sciences Prague, Prague, 165 21, Czech Republic
Zita Ferenczi
Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest, 1024, Hungary
Roland Hollós
Department of Meteorology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
Centre for Agricultural Research, Agricultural Institute,
Martonvásár, 2462, Hungary
Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences, ELTE Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
Anikó Kern
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life
Sciences Prague, Prague, 165 21, Czech Republic
Department of Geophysics and Space Sciences, Institute of Geography
and Earth Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
Natascha Kljun
Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University, Lund, 223 62, Sweden
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Short summary
A novel approach is used for the determination of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of small rural settlements, which may significantly differ from those of urban regions and have hardly been studied yet. Among other results, it turned out that wintertime nitrous oxide emission is significantly underestimated in the official emission inventories. Given the large number of such settlements, the underestimation may also distort the national total emission values reported to international databases.
A novel approach is used for the determination of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of small rural...
