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- Title
Anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> emission estimates in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area from ground-based CO<sub>2</sub> column observations.
- Authors
Hirofumi Ohyama; Frey, Matthias M.; Isamu Morino; Kei Shiomi; Masahide Nishihashi; Tatsuya Miyauchi; Hiroko Yamada; Makoto Saito; Masanobu Wakasa; Blumenstock, Thomas; Hase, Frank
- Abstract
Urban areas are responsible for more than 40 % of global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The Tokyo Metropolitan Area (TMA), Japan, one of the most populated regions in the world, includes various emission sources, such as thermal power plants, automobile traffic, and residential facilities. We conducted an intensive field campaign in the TMA from February to April 2016 to measure column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of CO2 (XCO2) with three groundbased Fourier transform spectrometers (one IFS 125HR and two EM27/SUN spectrometers). At two urban sites (Saitama and Sodegaura), measured XCO2 values were generally larger than those at a rural site (Tsukuba) by up to 9.5 ppm, and average diurnal variations increased toward evening. To simulate the XCO2 enhancement (DXCO2) resulting from emissions at each observation site, we used the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model driven by meteorological fields at a horizontal resolution of ~1 km from the Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model, which was coupled with anthropogenic (large point source and nonpoint source) CO2 emissions and biogenic fluxes. Although some of the diurnal variation of DXCO2 was not reproduced and plumes from nearby large point sources were not captured, primarily because of a transport modeling error, the WRF--STILT simulations using prior fluxes were generally in good agreement with the observations (mean bias, 0.30 ppm; standard deviation, 1.31 ppm). By combining observations with high-resolution modeling, we developed an urban- scale inversion system in which spatially resolved CO2 emission fluxes at >3 km resolution and a scaling factor of large point source emissions were estimated on a monthly basis by using Bayesian inference. The DXCO2 simulation results from the posterior CO2 fluxes were improved (mean bias, --0.03 ppm; standard deviation, 1.21 ppm). In addition, the inverse analysis reduced the uncertainty in total CO2 emissions in the TMA by a factor of ~2. The posterior total CO2 emissions agreed with emission inventories within the posterior uncertainty at the 95 % confidence level, demonstrating that the EM27/SUN spectrometer data can constrain urban-scale monthly CO2 emissions.
- Subjects
JAPAN; METROPOLITAN areas; FOURIER transform spectrometers; METEOROLOGICAL research; EMISSION inventories; CITIES &; towns; ESTIMATES; FLUX pinning
- Publication
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Discussions, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1680-7367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/egusphere-2023-256