Journal
TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY
Volume 66, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v66.23616
Keywords
climate change; carbon cycle; uncertainty analysis
Categories
Funding
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) programs
- US Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Three uncertainty assessments associated with the global total of carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel use and cement production are presented. Each assessment has its own strengths and weaknesses and none give a full uncertainty assessment of the emission estimates. This approach grew out of the lack of independent measurements at the spatial and temporal scales of interest. Issues of dependent and independent data are considered as well as the temporal and spatial relationships of the data. The result is a multifaceted examination of the uncertainty associated with fossil fuel carbon dioxide emission estimates. The three assessments collectively give a range that spans from 1.0 to 13% (2 sigma). Greatly simplifying the assessments give a global fossil fuel carbon dioxide uncertainty value of 8.4% (2 sigma). In the largest context presented, the determination of fossil fuel emission uncertainty is important for a better understanding of the global carbon cycle and its implications for the physical, economic and political world.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available