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Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-581-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-581-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
Research article
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30 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2023

Theoretical assessment of the ability of the MicroCarb satellite city-scan observing mode to estimate urban CO2 emissions

Kai Wu, Paul I. Palmer, Dien Wu, Denis Jouglet, Liang Feng, and Tom Oda

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We evaluate the theoretical ability of the upcoming MicroCarb satellite to estimate urban CO2 emissions over Paris and London. We explore the relative performance of alternative two-sweep and three-sweep city observing modes and take into account the impacts of cloud cover and urban biological CO2 fluxes. Our results find both the two-sweep and three-sweep observing modes are able to reduce prior flux errors by 20 %–40 % depending on the prevailing wind direction and cloud coverage.
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