Toward a Multi-City Framework for Urban GHG Estimation in the United States: Methods, Uncertainties, and Future Goals

Kimberly L Mueller1, William Callahan2, Kenneth J Davis3, Russell R Dickerson4, Riley Duren5, Kevin R Gurney6, Anna Karion7, Ralph F Keeling8, Jooil Kim8, Thomas Lauvaux9, Charles E Miller10, Paul B Shepson11, Jocelyn C Turnbull12, Ray F Weiss8 and James R Whetstone13, (1)National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, United States, (2)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (4)University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, (7)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (9)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (10)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (11)Purdue University, Departments of Chemistry, and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (12)GNS Science, National Isotope Centre, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (13)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States