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SCIENTIFIC DATA
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01467-3
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- NOAA Climate Program Office's Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate Program [NA17OAR4310084]
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [80NM0018D0004]
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Urban regions are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Increasing numbers of urban policymakers and stakeholders are taking action to reduce emissions and establish monitoring networks. However, the coordination among these efforts is limited, necessitating the integration of urban observations to enable comprehensive analyses and address scientific questions.
Urban regions emit a large fraction of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) that contribute to modern-day climate change. As such, a growing number of urban policymakers and stakeholders are adopting emission reduction targets and implementing policies to reach those targets. Over the past two decades research teams have established urban GHG monitoring networks to determine how much, where, and why a particular city emits GHGs, and to track changes in emissions over time. Coordination among these efforts has been limited, restricting the scope of analyses and insights. Here we present a harmonized data set synthesizing urban GHG observations from cities with monitoring networks across North America that will facilitate cross-city analyses and address scientific questions that are difficult to address in isolation.
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