A review of the current progress in quantifying the potential of urban forests to mitigate urban CO2 emissions

LF Weissert, JA Salmond, L Schwendenmann - Urban Climate, 2014 - Elsevier
Urban areas generally emit large amounts of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2).
However, studies that quantified the temporal and spatial variability of mean atmospheric …

Large and seasonally varying biospheric CO2 fluxes in the Los Angeles megacity revealed by atmospheric radiocarbon

JB Miller, SJ Lehman, KR Verhulst… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Measurements of Δ14C and CO2 can cleanly separate biogenic and fossil contributions to
CO2 enhancements above background. Our measurements of these tracers in air around …

An attempt at estimating Paris area CO2 emissions from atmospheric concentration measurements

FM Bréon, G Broquet, V Puygrenier… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric concentration measurements are used to adjust the daily to monthly budget of
fossil fuel CO 2 emissions of the Paris urban area from the prior estimates established by the …

Sixty years of radiocarbon dioxide measurements at Wellington, New Zealand: 1954–2014

JC Turnbull, SE Mikaloff Fletcher… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
We present 60 years of Δ 14 CO 2 measurements from Wellington, New Zealand (41° S,
175° E). The record has been extended and fully revised. New measurements have been …

Can we use atmospheric measurements to verify emission trends reported by cities? Lessons from a 6-year atmospheric inversion over Paris

J Lian, T Lauvaux, H Utard, FM Bréon… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Existing CO 2 emissions reported by city inventories usually lag in real-time by a year or
more and are prone to large uncertainties. This study responds to the growing need for …

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 …

The CO2 integral emission by the megacity of St Petersburg as quantified from ground-based FTIR measurements combined with dispersion modelling

DV Ionov, MV Makarova, F Hase… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
The anthropogenic impact is a major factor of the climate change which is highest in
industrial regions and modern megacities. Megacities are a significant source of emissions …

Toward consistency between trends in bottom-up CO emissions and top-down atmospheric measurements in the Los Angeles megacity

S Newman, X Xu, KR Gurney, YK Hsu… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Large urban emissions of greenhouse gases result in large atmospheric enhancements
relative to background that are easily measured. Using CO 2 mole fractions and Δ 14 C and …

The Wintertime Covariation of CO2 and Criteria Pollutants in an Urban Valley of the Western United States

R Bares, JC Lin, SW Hoch… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous mountain valleys experience wintertime particulate pollution events, when
persistent cold air pools (PCAPs) develop and inhibit atmospheric mixing, leading to the …

Spatio-temporal trends and source apportionment of fossil fuel and biomass burning black carbon (BC) in the Los Angeles Basin

A Mousavi, MH Sowlat, S Hasheminassab… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we evaluated the spatial and temporal trends of black carbon (BC) in the Los
Angeles Basin between 2012–2013 and 2016–2017. BC concentrations were measured in …