Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5261-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5261-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
Research article
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16 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 16 Sep 2022

Complementing XCO2 imagery with ground-based CO2 and 14CO2 measurements to monitor CO2 emissions from fossil fuels on a regional to local scale

Elise Potier, Grégoire Broquet, Yilong Wang, Diego Santaren, Antoine Berchet, Isabelle Pison, Julia Marshall, Philippe Ciais, François-Marie Bréon, and Frédéric Chevallier

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The Community Inversion Framework: codes and documentation Antoine Berchet, Espen Sollum, Isabelle Pison, Rona L. Thompson, Joël Thanwerdas, Audrey Fortems-Cheiney, Jacob C. A. van Peet, Elise Potier, Frédéric Chevallier, Grégoire Broquet, and Adrien Berchet https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6304912

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Atmospheric inversion at local–regional scales over Europe and pseudo-data assimilation are used to evaluate how CO2 and 14CO2 ground-based measurement networks could complement satellite CO2 imagers to monitor fossil fuel (FF) CO2 emissions. This combination significantly improves precision in the FF emission estimates in areas with a dense network but does not strongly support the separation of the FF from the biogenic signals or the spatio-temporal extrapolation of the satellite information.
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