Background conditions for an urban greenhouse gas network in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore metropolitan region.

ABSTRACT: As city governments take steps towards establishing emissions reduction targets, the atmospheric research community is increasingly able to assist in tracking emissions reductions. Researchers have established systems for observing atmospheric greenhouse gases in urban areas with the aim of attributing greenhouse gas concentration enhancements (and thus, emissions) to the region in question. However, to attribute enhancements to a particular region, one must isolate the component of the observed concentration attributable to fluxes inside the region by removing the background, which is the component due to fluxes outside. In this study, we demonstrate methods to construct several versions of a background for our carbon dioxide and methane observing network in the Washington, DC and Baltimo

SUBMITTER: Karion A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9982866 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature