Quantifying trace gas emissions from composite landscapes: A mass-budget approach with aircraft measurements

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1866-1876

  Alfieri, S ^a   Amato, U ^b   Carfora, M F ^b   Esposito, M ^a   Magliulo, V ^a  

^a ARIESPACE srl   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airborne fluxes; CO2 exchange; Mass balance; Shepard functions; Sky Arrow ERA

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE FLUX; AIR QUALITY MODELS; AIRCRAFT DATA; AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENT; AREA OF INTEREST; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; EDDY COVARIANCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; HETEROGENEOUS FEATURES; MASS BALANCE; MASS-BALANCE METHOD; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; SCALAR DENSITY; SHEPARD FUNCTIONS; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; SURFACE EXCHANGES; TOP SURFACE; TRACE GAS EMISSIONS; TRACE-GASES; WIND VECTORS;

AIR QUALITY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GAS EMISSIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; AIRCRAFT EMISSION; BOOTSTRAPPING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; LANDSCAPE; MASS BALANCE; TRACE GAS;

ADVECTION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIRCRAFT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; GAS TRANSPORT; GREENHOUSE GAS; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STEADY STATE; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

EID: 77951041508     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.02.026     Document Type: Article

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