Validation of modeled carbon-dioxide emissions from an urban neighborhood with direct eddy-covariance measurements

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 6057-6069

  Christen, A ^a   Coops, N C ^a   Crawford, B R ^a   Kellett, R ^a   Liss, K N ^a,b   Olchovski, I ^a   Tooke, T R ^a   Van Der Laan, M ^a   Voogt, J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Building energy modeling; Carbon dioxide; Eddy covariance; Flux measurements; GHG emission modeling; LiDAR; Model validation

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY; EDDY-COVARIANCE; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; GHG EMISSION; MODEL VALIDATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEATING; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TOWERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GREENHOUSE GASES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGGREGATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BUILDING; CARBON DIOXIDE; EDDY COVARIANCE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEATING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIDAR; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NEIGHBORHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; BUILDING; CANADA; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDDY COVARIANCE; HUMAN; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SUMMER; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TREE; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WINTER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 80052269670     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.07.040     Document Type: Article

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