Towards spaceborne monitoring of localized CO2 emissions

• Verfasst von: Strandgren, Johan [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Krutz, David [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Wilzewski, Jonas S. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Paproth, Carsten [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Sebastian, Ilse [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Gurney, Kevin R. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Liang, Jianming [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Roiger, Anke [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Butz, André [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Towards spaceborne monitoring of localized CO2 emissions
• Titelzusatz: an instrument concept and first performance assessment
• Verf.angabe: Johan Strandgren, David Krutz, Jonas Wilzewski, Carsten Paproth, Ilse Sebastian, Kevin R. Gurney, Jianming Liang, Anke Roiger, and André Butz
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: 3 June 2020
• Umfang: 18 S.
• Fussnoten: Im Titel ist "2" tiefgestellt ; Gesehen am 12.10.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Atmospheric measurement techniques
• Ort Quelle: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus, 2008
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 13(2020), 6, Seite 2887-2904
• ISSN Quelle: 1867-8548
• DOI: doi:10.5194/amt-13-2887-2020
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1735395579

Abstract

The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) requires the nations of the world to report their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The independent verification of these reported emissions is a cornerstone for advancing towards the emission accounting and reduction measures agreed upon in the Paris Agreement. In this paper, we present the concept and first performance assessment of a compact spaceborne imaging spectrometer with a spatial resolution of 50 × 50 m2 that could contribute to the “monitoring, verification and reporting” (MVR) of CO2 emissions worldwide. CO2 emissions from medium-sized power plants (1-10 Mt CO2 yr−1), currently not targeted by other spaceborne missions, represent a significant part of the global CO2 emission budget. In this paper we show that the proposed instrument concept is able to resolve emission plumes from such localized sources as a first step towards corresponding CO2 flux estimates.