CO2 and Carbon Emissions from Cities: Linkages to Air Quality, Socioeconomic Activity, and Stakeholders in the Salt Lake City Urban Area
Abstract
Urban areas are responsible for a substantial proportion of anthropogenic carbon emissions around the world. As global populations increasingly reside in cities, the role of urban emissions in determining the future trajectory of carbon emissions is magnified. Consequently, a number of research efforts have been started in the United States and beyond, focusing on observing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and relating its variations to carbon emissions in cities. Because carbon emissions are intimately tied to socioeconomic activity through the combustion of fossil fuels, and many cities are actively adopting emission reduction plans, such urban carbon research efforts give rise to opportunities for stakeholder engagement and guidance on other environmental issues, such as air quality. This paper describes a research effort centered in the Salt Lake City, Utah, metropolitan region, which is the locus for one of the longest-running urban CO2 networks in the world. The Salt Lake City area provides a rich environment for studying anthropogenic emissions and for understanding the relationship between emissions and socioeconomic activity when the CO2 observations are enhanced with a) air quality observations, b) novel mobile observations from platforms on light-rail public transit trains and a news helicopter, c) dense meteorological observations, and d) modelingmore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Weather Service
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1609575
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-04ER63904; SC0010624; SC0005236; SC0010625; NA14OAR4310178; NA17OAR4310084; EF-1137336; EF-01241286; EF-01240142
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 99; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-0007
- Publisher:
- American Meteorological Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Citation Formats
Lin, John C., Mitchell, Logan, Crosman, Erik, Mendoza, Daniel L., Buchert, Martin, Bares, Ryan, Fasoli, Ben, Bowling, David R., Pataki, Diane, Catharine, Douglas, Strong, Courtenay, Gurney, Kevin R., Patarasuk, Risa, Baasandorj, Munkhbayar, Jacques, Alexander, Hoch, Sebastian, Horel, John, and Ehleringer, Jim. CO2 and Carbon Emissions from Cities: Linkages to Air Quality, Socioeconomic Activity, and Stakeholders in the Salt Lake City Urban Area. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1175/bams-d-17-0037.1.
Lin, John C., Mitchell, Logan, Crosman, Erik, Mendoza, Daniel L., Buchert, Martin, Bares, Ryan, Fasoli, Ben, Bowling, David R., Pataki, Diane, Catharine, Douglas, Strong, Courtenay, Gurney, Kevin R., Patarasuk, Risa, Baasandorj, Munkhbayar, Jacques, Alexander, Hoch, Sebastian, Horel, John, & Ehleringer, Jim. CO2 and Carbon Emissions from Cities: Linkages to Air Quality, Socioeconomic Activity, and Stakeholders in the Salt Lake City Urban Area. United States. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-17-0037.1
Lin, John C., Mitchell, Logan, Crosman, Erik, Mendoza, Daniel L., Buchert, Martin, Bares, Ryan, Fasoli, Ben, Bowling, David R., Pataki, Diane, Catharine, Douglas, Strong, Courtenay, Gurney, Kevin R., Patarasuk, Risa, Baasandorj, Munkhbayar, Jacques, Alexander, Hoch, Sebastian, Horel, John, and Ehleringer, Jim. Wed .
"CO2 and Carbon Emissions from Cities: Linkages to Air Quality, Socioeconomic Activity, and Stakeholders in the Salt Lake City Urban Area". United States. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-17-0037.1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1609575.
@article{osti_1609575,
title = {CO2 and Carbon Emissions from Cities: Linkages to Air Quality, Socioeconomic Activity, and Stakeholders in the Salt Lake City Urban Area},
author = {Lin, John C. and Mitchell, Logan and Crosman, Erik and Mendoza, Daniel L. and Buchert, Martin and Bares, Ryan and Fasoli, Ben and Bowling, David R. and Pataki, Diane and Catharine, Douglas and Strong, Courtenay and Gurney, Kevin R. and Patarasuk, Risa and Baasandorj, Munkhbayar and Jacques, Alexander and Hoch, Sebastian and Horel, John and Ehleringer, Jim},
abstractNote = {Urban areas are responsible for a substantial proportion of anthropogenic carbon emissions around the world. As global populations increasingly reside in cities, the role of urban emissions in determining the future trajectory of carbon emissions is magnified. Consequently, a number of research efforts have been started in the United States and beyond, focusing on observing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and relating its variations to carbon emissions in cities. Because carbon emissions are intimately tied to socioeconomic activity through the combustion of fossil fuels, and many cities are actively adopting emission reduction plans, such urban carbon research efforts give rise to opportunities for stakeholder engagement and guidance on other environmental issues, such as air quality. This paper describes a research effort centered in the Salt Lake City, Utah, metropolitan region, which is the locus for one of the longest-running urban CO2 networks in the world. The Salt Lake City area provides a rich environment for studying anthropogenic emissions and for understanding the relationship between emissions and socioeconomic activity when the CO2 observations are enhanced with a) air quality observations, b) novel mobile observations from platforms on light-rail public transit trains and a news helicopter, c) dense meteorological observations, and d) modeling efforts that include atmospheric simulations and high-resolution emission inventories. Carbon dioxide and other atmospheric observations are presented herein, along with associated modeling work. Examples in which the work benefited from and contributed to the interests of multiple stakeholders (e.g., policymakers, air quality managers, municipal government, urban planners, industry, and the general public) are discussed.},
doi = {10.1175/bams-d-17-0037.1},
journal = {Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society},
number = 11,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2018}
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