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

The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) requires the nations of the world to report their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The independent verification of these reported emissions is a cornerstone for advancing towards the emission accounting and reduction measures agreed up...

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Main Authors: Strandgren, Johan (Author) , Krutz, David (Author) , Wilzewski, Jonas S. (Author) , Paproth, Carsten (Author) , Sebastian, Ilse (Author) , Gurney, Kevin (Author) , Liang, Jianming (Author) , Roiger, Anke (Author) , Butz, André (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 3 June 2020
In: Atmospheric measurement techniques
Year: 2020, Volume: 13, Issue: 6, Pages: 2887-2904
ISSN:1867-8548
DOI:10.5194/amt-13-2887-2020
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2887-2020
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/13/2887/2020/
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Author Notes:Johan Strandgren, David Krutz, Jonas Wilzewski, Carsten Paproth, Ilse Sebastian, Kevin R. Gurney, Jianming Liang, Anke Roiger, and André Butz
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Summary:The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) requires the nations of the world to report their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The independent verification of these reported emissions is a cornerstone for advancing towards the emission accounting and reduction measures agreed upon in the Paris Agreement. In this paper, we present the concept and first performance assessment of a compact spaceborne imaging spectrometer with a spatial resolution of 50 × 50 m2 that could contribute to the “monitoring, verification and reporting” (MVR) of CO2 emissions worldwide. CO2 emissions from medium-sized power plants (1-10 Mt CO2 yr−1), currently not targeted by other spaceborne missions, represent a significant part of the global CO2 emission budget. In this paper we show that the proposed instrument concept is able to resolve emission plumes from such localized sources as a first step towards corresponding CO2 flux estimates.
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ISSN:1867-8548
DOI:10.5194/amt-13-2887-2020

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