Independent checks for validation of emission estimates: the metdat example for methane

conference paper
1998
Berdowski, J.J.M.

Draaijers, G.P.J.

Hollander, J.C.T.

Loon, M. van

Roemer, M.G.M.
The agreed emission reductions in the Kyoto Protocol require methods to establish the quality and accuracy of the inventory data and to monitor compliance with the Protocol. The IPCC Expert Meeting in November 1997 in the Netherlands con-cluded that an assessment of inventory data quality was strongly supported by in-dependent checks and additional analysis of uncertainties in the emissions invento-ries.
In this paper three connected validation procedures have been applied for a meth-ane emission inventory, namely (i) the comparison of emission inventories, (ii) the comparison of modelled with observed methane concentrations, and (iii) the com-parison of bottom-up emission estimates with inversely modelled emission esti-mates. The results are based on a project carried out in the framework of the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change. This project has been initiated to establish and validate a detailed CH4 emission data-base for the Netherlands and Northwestern Europe (METDAT). Methods and re-sults of this project are presented in this paper.
TNO Identifier
256213
Repository link
https://resolver.tno.nl/uuid:3c9de74d-db44-438d-b6e2-9c9a8216e405
Publisher
TNO
Source title
Meeting of the IPCC/OECD/IEA Programme for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories on "Managing Uncertainty in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories", Paris 13-15 October 1998
Pages
1-36
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