Estimating methane and nitrous oxide emissions in California using multi-tower observations and hierarchical Bayesian inversion

Seongeun Jeong1, Ying Hsu2, Sally Newman3, Jingsong Zhang4, Arlyn Andrews5, Laura Bianco6, Justin E Bagley1, Xinguang Cui1, Heather D Graven7, Jooil Kim8, Peter Salameh9, Brian W LaFranchi10, Chad Priest4, Mixtli Campos-Pineda4, Elena Novakovskaia11, Christopher Sloop12, Hope A Michelsen10, Ray Bambha10, Ray F Weiss13, Ralph F Keeling14 and Marc Laurenz Fischer15, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)CAL/EPA (Air Resources Board), Sacramento, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of California, Riverside, Riverside, United States, (5)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (8)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (9)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (10)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (11)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (12)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States, (13)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (14)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (15)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States