Assessment of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic trace gas emissions from airborne measurements over Sacramento, California in spring 2009

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 705-721

  Turnbull, J C ^a,b   Karion, A ^a,b   Fischer, M L ^c   Faloona, I ^d   Guilderson, T ^e   Lehman, S J ^b   Miller, B R ^a,b   Miller, J B ^a,b   Montzka, S ^a   Sherwood, T ^f   Saripalli, S ^f   Sweeney, C ^a,b   Tans, P P ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f KalScott Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON MONOXIDE; EMISSION INVENTORY; FOSSIL FUEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HALOCARBON; HYDROCARBON; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MIXING RATIO; SPRING (SEASON); TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251483827     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-705-2011     Document Type: Article

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