How well do we understand the land‐ocean‐atmosphere carbon cycle?

D Crisp, H Dolman, T Tanhua… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fossil fuel combustion, land use change and other human activities have increased the
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) abundance by about 50% since the beginning of the …

Satellite data applications for sustainable energy transitions

MR Edwards, T Holloway, RB Pierce, L Blank… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Transitioning to a sustainable energy system poses a massive challenge to communities,
nations, and the global economy in the next decade and beyond. A growing portfolio of …

Tracking CO2 emission reductions from space: A case study at Europe's largest fossil fuel power plant

R Nassar, O Moeini, JP Mastrogiacomo… - Frontiers in Remote …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We quantify CO2 emissions from Europe's largest fossil fuel power plant, the Bełchatόw
Power Station in Poland, using CO2 observations from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory …

Automated detection of atmospheric NO2 plumes from satellite data: a tool to help infer anthropogenic combustion emissions

D Finch, P Palmer, T Zhang - Atmospheric Measurement …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
We use a convolutional neural network (CNN) to identify plumes of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2),
a tracer of incomplete combustion, from NO 2 column data collected by the TROPOspheric …

Two years of satellite-based carbon dioxide emission quantification at the world's largest coal-fired power plants

DH Cusworth, AK Thorpe, CE Miller… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions from combustion sources are uncertain in many places
across the globe. Satellites have the ability to detect and quantify emissions from large CO 2 …

[HTML][HTML] A global catalogue of CO emissions and co-emitted species from power plants, including high-resolution vertical and temporal profiles

M Guevara, S Enciso, C Tena, O Jorba… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
We present a high-resolution global emission catalogue of CO 2 and co-emitted species
(NO x, SO 2, CO, CH 4) from thermal power plants for the year 2018. The construction of the …

Building a bridge: characterizing major anthropogenic point sources in the South African Highveld region using OCO-3 carbon dioxide snapshot area maps and …

J Hakkarainen, I Ialongo, T Oda… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we characterize major anthropogenic point sources in the South African
Highveld region using Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) Snapshot Area Map (SAM) …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of simulated CO power plant plumes from six high-resolution atmospheric transport models

D Brunner, G Kuhlmann, S Henne… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Power plants and large industrial facilities contribute more than half of global anthropogenic
CO 2 emissions. Quantifying the emissions of these point sources is therefore one of the …

Towards sector-based attribution using intra-city variations in satellite-based emission ratios between CO2 and CO

D Wu, J Liu, PO Wennberg, PI Palmer… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) and air pollutants such as carbon monoxide (CO) are co-emitted by
many combustion sources. Previous efforts have combined satellite-based observations of …

CO2 emissions from C40 cities: citywide emission inventories and comparisons with global gridded emission datasets

DY Ahn, DL Goldberg, T Coombes… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Under the leadership of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), approximately
1100 global cities have signed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Accurate greenhouse …