An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO 2 concentration data
Abstract
Verifying national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories is a critical step to ensure that reported emissions data to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are accurate and representative of a country’s contribution to GHG concentrations in the atmosphere. Verification could include a variety of evidence, but arguably the most convincing verification would be confirmation of a change in GHG concentrations in the atmosphere that is consistent with reported emissions to the UNFCCC. We report here on a case study evaluating this option based on a prototype atmospheric CO2 measurement network deployed in the Mid-Continent Region of the conterminous United States. We found that the atmospheric CO2 measurement data did verify the accuracy of the emissions inventory within the confidence limits of the emissions estimates, suggesting that this technology could be further developed and deployed more widely in the future for verifying reported emissions.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1182910
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-93358
Journal ID: ISSN 1748-9326; 400409900
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NNX08AK08G; NNH12AU351; AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Environmental Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-9326
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Citation Formats
Ogle, Stephen, Davis, Kenneth J., Lauvaux, Thomas, Schuh, Andrew E., Cooley, Dan, West, Tristram O., Heath, L., Miles, Natasha, Richardson, S. J., Breidt, F. Jay, Smith, Jim, McCarty, Jessica L., Gurney, Kevin R., Tans, P. P., and Denning, Scott. An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO 2 concentration data. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034012.
Ogle, Stephen, Davis, Kenneth J., Lauvaux, Thomas, Schuh, Andrew E., Cooley, Dan, West, Tristram O., Heath, L., Miles, Natasha, Richardson, S. J., Breidt, F. Jay, Smith, Jim, McCarty, Jessica L., Gurney, Kevin R., Tans, P. P., & Denning, Scott. An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO 2 concentration data. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034012
Ogle, Stephen, Davis, Kenneth J., Lauvaux, Thomas, Schuh, Andrew E., Cooley, Dan, West, Tristram O., Heath, L., Miles, Natasha, Richardson, S. J., Breidt, F. Jay, Smith, Jim, McCarty, Jessica L., Gurney, Kevin R., Tans, P. P., and Denning, Scott. 2015.
"An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO 2 concentration data". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034012. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1182910.
@article{osti_1182910,
title = {An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO 2 concentration data},
author = {Ogle, Stephen and Davis, Kenneth J. and Lauvaux, Thomas and Schuh, Andrew E. and Cooley, Dan and West, Tristram O. and Heath, L. and Miles, Natasha and Richardson, S. J. and Breidt, F. Jay and Smith, Jim and McCarty, Jessica L. and Gurney, Kevin R. and Tans, P. P. and Denning, Scott},
abstractNote = {Verifying national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories is a critical step to ensure that reported emissions data to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are accurate and representative of a country’s contribution to GHG concentrations in the atmosphere. Verification could include a variety of evidence, but arguably the most convincing verification would be confirmation of a change in GHG concentrations in the atmosphere that is consistent with reported emissions to the UNFCCC. We report here on a case study evaluating this option based on a prototype atmospheric CO2 measurement network deployed in the Mid-Continent Region of the conterminous United States. We found that the atmospheric CO2 measurement data did verify the accuracy of the emissions inventory within the confidence limits of the emissions estimates, suggesting that this technology could be further developed and deployed more widely in the future for verifying reported emissions.},
doi = {10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034012},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1182910},
journal = {Environmental Research Letters},
issn = {1748-9326},
number = 3,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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