Title
Emissions of methane in Europe inferred by total column measurements
Author
Wunch, D.
Jones, D.B.A.
Toon, G.C.
Deutscher, N.M.
Hase, F.
Notholt, J.
Sussmann, R.
Warneke, T.
Kuenen, J.J.P.
Denier van der Gon, H.A.C.
Fisher, J.A.
Maasakkers, J.D.
Publication year
2019
Abstract
Using five long-running ground-based atmospheric observatories in Europe, we demonstrate the utility of long-term, stationary, ground-based measurements of atmospheric total columns for verifying annual methane emission inventories. Our results indicate that the methane emissions for the region in Europe between Orléans, Bremen, Białystok, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen are overestimated by the state-of-the-art inventories of the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) v4.2 FT2010 and the high-resolution emissions database developed by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) as part of the Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate project (TNO-MACC_III), possibly due to the disaggregation of emissions onto a spatial grid. Uncertainties in the carbon monoxide inventories used to compute the methaneemissionscontributetothediscrepancybetweenour inferred emissions and those from the inventories.
Subject
Environment
Environment & Sustainability
Urbanisation
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TNO identifier
865876
Source
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19 (19), 3963-3980
Document type
article