The value of high-frequency, high-precision methane isotopologue measurements for source and sink estimation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Rigby, M ^a,b   Manning, A J ^c   Prinn, R G ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FOSSIL FUELS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; METHANE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

BIOMASS-BURNING; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; GLOBAL SOURCES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY MONITORING; HIGH-PRECISION; ISOTOPOLOGUES; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SAMPLE PRECONCENTRATION; SMALL SCALE; SOURCE AND SINK; SOURCE STRENGTH; TIME-SCALES; UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METHANE; MONITORING SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECISION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863432620     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017384     Document Type: Article

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