A41N:
Improving Emissions Through Observations VI

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Gregory J Frost1, Monika Kopacz2, Ray Bambha3 and Hope A Michelsen3, (1)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States(2)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States(3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Gregory J Frost, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Monika Kopacz, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Ray Bambha, Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA, United States and Hope A Michelsen, Sandia Natl Lab, Livermore, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gregory J Frost, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Methane emissions in the US and Canada: contributions of various source sectors and evolution of emissions over time
Scot M Miller1, Anna M Michalak2, Steven C Wofsy1, Arlyn E Andrews3, Sebastien Biraud4, Edward J Dlugokencky5, Marc Laurenz Fischer6, Greet Janssens-Maenhout7, Eric A Kort8, Benjamin R Miller9, John B Miller10, Stephen A Montzka11 and Doug E.J. Worthy12, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)IES/ Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Varese), Italy, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NOAA OAR ESRL GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Environment Canada Toronto, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
8:15 AM
 
Seasonal Variation of Methane Emissions in California’s Urban and Rural Regions Using Multi-site Observations
Seongeun Jeong1, Ying Hsu2, Arlyn E Andrews3, Laura Bianco3, Sally Newman4, Xinguang Cui1, Justin Bagley1, Heather D Graven5, Peter Salameh6, Chrisopher Sloop7, Brian LaFranchi8, Hope A Michelsen8, Ray Bambha8, Ray F Weiss9, Ralph F Keeling9 and Marc Laurenz Fischer1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)CAL/EPA (Air Resources Board), Sacramento, CA, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Carlsbad, CA, United States, (7)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States, (8)Sandia National Lab, Livermore, CA, United States, (9)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
8:30 AM
 
Atmosphere-based estimates of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions for the U.S. derived from 14CO2 during 2009-2012.
Stephen A Montzka1, John B Miller1, Scott Lehman2, Ben Miller3, Lei Hu4, Arlyn E Andrews5, Colm Sweeney3, Edward J Dlugokencky4, John Richard Southon6, Chad Wolak2, James W Elkins4, Pieter P Tans3, Jocelyn C Turnbull7, Brian W LaFranchi8, Tom Guilderson9 and Marc Laurenz Fischer10, (1)NOAA OAR ESRL GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Univ California, Irvine, CA, United States, (7)GNS Science / Rafter Radiocarbon, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (8)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (9)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (10)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
8:45 AM
 
Verification of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions of Europe; capabilities of the current and future surface network
Alexander T Vermeulen1,2, Martina Schmidt3, Samuel Hammer3, Peter M Bergamaschi4, Lynn Hazan5 and Ute Karstens6, (1)Lund University, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund, Sweden, (2)Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, EEE-EA, Petten, Netherlands, (3)University Heidelberg, IUP, Heidelberg, Germany, (4)European Commission JRC, Ispra Varese, Italy, (5)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (6)ZMAW Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
9:00 AM
 
High-resolution methane emission estimates using the InTEM inversion system
Sarah Connors1, Alistair Manning2, Andrew D Robinson1, Stuart N Riddick1, Grant Forster3, Dave Oram3, Simon O'Doherty4 and Neil Richard Peter Harris1, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)UK Meteorological Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, (4)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
9:15 AM
 
Comparison of Emissions Inventories of Anthropogenic Air Pollutants in Asia
Eri Saikawa1, Cindy L Young1, Hankyul Kim1, Jun-ichi Kurokawa2, Yu Zhao3, Greet Georgette Alice Janssens-Maenhout4, Qiang Zhang5 and Toshimasa Ohara6, (1)Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)ACAP Asia Center for Air Pollution Research, Niigata, Japan, (3)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (4)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (5)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (6)NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan
9:30 AM
 
Optimizing global CO concentrations and emissions based on DART/CAM-CHEM
Benjamin Gaubert1, Avelino F Arellano2, Jerome Barre1, Helen Marie Worden1, Louisa K Emmons1, Christine Wiedinmyer1, Jeffrey L Anderson1, Merritt N Deeter1, Arthur P Mizzi1 and David P Edwards1, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
9:45 AM
 
Recent global methane trends: an investigation using hierarchical Bayesian methods
Matthew L Rigby, Ann Stavert, Anita Ganesan and Mark F Lunt, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
 
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