Towards spaceborne monitoring of localized CO.sub.2 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 (CO.sub.2) emissions. The independent verification of these reported emissions is a cornerstone for advancing towards the emission accounting and reduction measures agr...

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Published in:Atmospheric measurement techniques 2020-06, Vol.13 (6), p.2887
Main Authors: Strandgren, Johan, Krutz, David, Wilzewski, Jonas, Paproth, Carsten, Sebastian, Ilse, Gurney, Kevin R, Liang, Jianming, Roiger, Anke, Butz, André
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accounting
Atmospheric physics
Budgets
Carbon dioxide
Climate change
Conferences and conventions
Electric power plants
Emissions (Pollution)
Global temperature changes
Power (Philosophy)
Weather
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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 (CO.sub.2) 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 50x50 m.sup.2 that could contribute to the "monitoring, verification and reporting" (MVR) of CO.sub.2 emissions worldwide. CO.sub.2 emissions from medium-sized power plants (1-10 Mt CO.sub.2 yr.sup.-1 ), currently not targeted by other spaceborne missions, represent a significant part of the global CO.sub.2 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 CO.sub.2 flux estimates.
ISSN:1867-1381
1867-8548