Diurnal tracking of anthropogenic CO2 emissions in the Los Angeles basin megacity during spring 2010

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4359-4372

  Newman, S ^a   Jeong, S ^b   Fischer, M L ^b   Xu, X ^c   Haman, C L ^d   Lefer, B ^d   Alvarez, S ^d   Rappenglueck, B ^d   Kort, E A ^e   Andrews, A E ^f   Peischl, J ^f   Gurney, K R ^g   Miller, C E ^e   Yung, Y L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; COMBUSTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; FOSSIL FUEL; MEGACITY; SPRING (SEASON);

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; PASADENA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885929959     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-4359-2013     Document Type: Article

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