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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
卷 13, 期 8, 页码 4349-4357出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-4349-2013
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- NASA [NNX11AG016, NNX08AI86G, NNX10AT83G]
- NOAA Climate and Global Change
- NASA [101056, NNX08AI86G, NNX10AT83G, 122811] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We assess the large-scale, top-down constraints on regional fossil fuel emissions provided by observations of atmospheric total column CO2, X-CO2. Using an atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) with underlying fossil emissions, we determine the influence of regional fossil fuel emissions on global X-CO2 fields. We quantify the regional contrasts between source and upwind regions and probe the sensitivity of atmospheric X-CO2 to changes in fossil fuel emissions. Regional fossil fuel X-CO2 contrasts can exceed 0.7 ppm based on 2007 emission estimates, but have large seasonal variations due to biospheric fluxes. Contamination by clouds reduces the discernible fossil signatures. Nevertheless, our simulations show that atmospheric fossil X-CO2 can be tied to its source region and that changes in the regional XCO2 contrasts scale linearly with emissions. We test the GCM results against X-CO2 data from the GOSAT satellite. Regional X-CO2 contrasts in GOSAT data generally scale with the predictions from the GCM, but the comparison is limited by the moderate precision of and relatively few observations from the satellite. We discuss how this approach may be useful as a policy tool to verify national fossil emissions, as it provides an independent, observational constraint.
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