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Session Proposal: New Developments in Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions Quantification (AGU25)

A080
New Developments in Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions Quantification

Session ID#: 247846

Session Description:
The last decade has seen a proliferation of research on improved methods for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions quantification focused on metropolitan areas. Studies have addressed a range of topics: the urban biosphere, the natural gas distribution system, the connection between air quality and GHG emissions, and understanding related uncertainties. We invite presentations addressing these and other related topics utilizing diverse measurements and models with resolutions ranging from a metropolitan area to individual buildings. Presentations may cover both top-down (in-situ or remote sensing observations of atmospheric GHG concentrations) and bottom-up (activity and emission-factor based) methods, including tools being used by local governments for their own emissions tracking. We encourage presentations on studies bridging the gap between different atmospheric and activity-based estimates. This session will also honor the contributions of Dr. James Whetstone, who retired from NIST this year after 52 years, the last 18 leading NIST’s GHG Measurements Program.
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener:  Anna Karion, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
Conveners:  Paul B Shepson, Purdue University, Departments of Chemistry, and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Lucy Hutyra, Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States
 
Evaluation of Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model Parameterizations for Estimating Carbon Flux from Managed Turfgrass Lawns (Invited) (1868817)
Julia K Marrs1, Andrew Reinmann2, David Warren Allen3, Lucy Hutyra4, Kenneth J Davis5, Benjamin Ahlswede6, Samantha Murphy5, Jason Horne5, Clare Kohler2, Israel Lopez-Coto7 and Dandan Wei8, (1)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (2)City University New York, Advanced Science Research Center, New York, United States, (3)National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (4)Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (5)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (7)Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, (8)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
 
Using Network Observations to Constrain CO and CO2 Emissions from an Oil Refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area (1879962)
Milan Patel1, Naomi Asimow2, Anna Winter1, Yishu Zhu2 and Ronald C Cohen3,4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of California, Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
 
High-Resolution Estimation of Urban Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions (1892297)
Zirong Lin1, Bo Huang1, Jia He1, Yizhen Yan2, Man Xiao1, Qinrui Luo1, Zhulin Qi3 and Xiaotian Ding3, (1)The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, (2)Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, (3)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
 
Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Built Environment's Role in CO₂ Emissions in South Korea Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning (1906026)
Myeonggyun KIM, Myongji University, Dept. of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Yongin, South Korea and Hyo-Jong Song, Myongji University, Dept. of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Seoul, South Korea
 
Fossil CO2 Emissions from Warehouse and Distribution Centers in Southern California’s Inland Empire (1906613)
Ian Bachant1, Guaciara M Santos2, Heather Ann Haines3, Francesca Mia Hopkins4 and Claudia I Czimczik2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (3)University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Geography, Reno, United States, (4)University of California Riverside, Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
 
Urban GHG inversions from Indianapolis to Paris: a brief tribute to Dr. Whetstone (1908125)
Thomas Lauvaux1, Samuel Hammer2, Kimberly L Mueller3, Olivier Laurent4, Ke Che5, Michel Ramonet4, Philippe Ciais6, Jinghui Lian7, Natasha L. Miles8, Scott Richardson9, Kenneth J Davis9, Jocelyn C Turnbull10, Andreas Christen11, Noemie Taquet12 and Michel Grutter13, (1)University of Reims, Reims, France, (2)University Heidelberg, IUP, Heidelberg, Germany, (3)University of Michigan EWRE, Washington, DC, United States, (4)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (5)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, SatInv, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (6)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (7)Origins.S.A.S, Suez Group, Paris La Défense, France, (8)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (9)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (10)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (11)University of Freiburg, Chair of Environmental Meteorology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg, Germany, (12)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y Cambio Climático, Mexico City, Mexico, (13)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Mexico City, Mexico
 
Using commercial aircraft to monitor urban GHG emissions (1916283)
Colm Sweeney, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jeff Peischl, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder & NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Britton B Stephens, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Kathryn McKain, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Steven Borenstein, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States and Anna McAuliffe, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Resolving seasonal urban methane emissions with space-based observations from TROPOMI (1919626)
Erica Whiting, Genevieve Plant and Eric A Kort, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Diagnosing Urban CO₂ and CH₄ Emission Inventories in Kraków Using Atmospheric Measurements and Lagrangean Modelling (1921065)
Agnieszka Wypych1, Jaroslaw M. Necki2 and Jakub Bartyzel2, (1)Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, (2)AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Kraków, Poland
 
Development of a Machine Learning Benchmark for Inferring CO2 Emissions de-novo From Measurements of a Real-Time Sensor Network (1921238)
Naomi Asimow, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States and Ronald C Cohen, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, United States
 
Algorithm to Derive Regional CO2 Background Signal from Urban-Influenced Monitoring Stations (1928104)
Madat Sardarli, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Jooil Kim, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Timothy J Lueker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States and Ralph F Keeling, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Efficient atmospheric trace gas measurements through collaboration with the Civil Air Patrol (1931365)
Daniel Perry Lathrop, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Physics, College Park, MD, United States, Elaine Jaross, University of Maryland College Park, Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Edward Strobach, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Russell R. Dickerson, University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States and Piotr Kulczakowicz, University of Maryland College Park, Quantum Foundary, College Park, United States
 
Methane Sources in Cities Re-interpretated Using New Laboratory Results (1934757)
Roisin Commane1,2, Raghav Dhall1, Andrew Hallward-Driemeier1, Mira Modi3, Luke D Schiferl2 and Yuwei Zhao1, (1)Columbia University, New York, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (3)Barnard College, New York, United States
 
Fifteen years of research quantifying urban greenhouse gas emissions yields a global legacy of knowledge (Invited) (1945412)
Kenneth J Davis, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
 
­­­­­Evaluating the Performance of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh in the Urban Boundary Layer for Greenhouse Gas Inversions (1947072)
Kevin Fletcher1, Kenneth J Davis2 and Zachary Barkley2, (1)Pennsylvania State University University Park, State College, PA, UNITED STATES, (2)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
 
Seasonal Carbon Dioxide Flux and Environmental Controls in an Urban Turfgrass System (1959969)
Katherine Anderson, Gettysburg College, Department of Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, United States, Jason Horne, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Katalin A Szlavecz, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Ian Yesilonis, USDA Forest Service, Baltimore, United States and Benjamin Ahlswede, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
 
Quantifying fossil fuel CO2 enhancements along an urban-rural gradient with radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses (1962266)
Claudia I Czimczik1, Cindy Cristina Yanez2, Manvendra Krishna Dubey3, Francesca Mia Hopkins4, Aaron Meyer5, Xiaomei Xu1, Jooil Kim6, Jazmin Nicolasa Romero7 and Harrison Parker8, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, United States, (4)University of California Riverside, Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, (5)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, (6)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (7)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (8)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Progress in establishing a new US network of EM27/SUN spectrometers (1963971)
Jason Michael St Clair, University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR II, Baltimore, United States, Hayoung Park, Seoul National University, Department of Environmental Planning, Graudate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Thomas F Hanisco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lesley Ott, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States and Saswati Das, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Evaluation of Updates to the U.S. GReenhouse gas And Air Pollutants Emissions System with Airborne Field Campaign Data (1965048)
Brian C McDonald1, Congmeng Lyu2, Colin Harkins3, Quazi Ziaur Rasool4, Dr. Meng Li, PhD5, Jian He5, Alan Gorchov Negron6, Ilana Pollack7, Jack Prothero8, Kimberly L Mueller9, Jeff Peischl10, Alissa Choi11, John B Miller12, Sudhanshu Pandey13, John R Worden14, Aaron Meyer15, John C Lin16 and James Whetstone, (1)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado and NOAA ESRL/CSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States, (5)NOAA CSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (8)NIST, Gaithersburg, United States, (9)University of Michigan EWRE, Washington, DC, United States, (10)CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder & NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (11)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (12)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (13)SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (14)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (15)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, (16)University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Summertime Methane Emission Detection in Salt Lake City, UT Using Near and Mid-Infrared Open-path Dual-Comb Spectroscopy (1965942)
Ryan Rhoades1, Nathan Sweet1,2, Brian Washburn1, Ian Coddington1 and Kevin Cossel1, (1)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry, Boulder, United States
 
Residential Methane Emission from Natural Gas Meter Set Assemblies, Appliances, and Distribution Infrastructure in California (1966977)
Bijay Sharma1, Wanyu R. Chan2, William W. Delp2 and Brett C. Singer2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
Using Trace Gas and 14C Measurements from the AEROMMA Campaign to Develop High-frequency Fossil Fuel and Biospheric CO2 Data Over North American Cities in 2023 (1977755)
Alissa Choi1, John B Miller2, Michael Dyonisius3, Brian McDonald4, Chia-Hua Hsu5, Jeff Peischl6, Congmeng Lyu7, Jian He8, Colin Harkins9, Jessica Gilman10, Colby Francoeur7, John Richard Southon11, Chad Wolak3, Patrick Cappa3 and Steve Morgan3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, United States, (6)CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder & NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (7)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (8)NOAA CSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Colorado and NOAA ESRL/CSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (11)Univ California, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States
 
Data and Analysis Updates from the Los Angeles Megacities Carbon Project (1980947)
Jooil Kim1, Timothy J Lueker2, Anna Karion3, Peter Salameh4, Vineet Yadav5, Madat Sardarli4,6, Nick Rollins7, William Berelson8, Francesca Mia Hopkins9, Claudia I Czimczik10, Dr. Elizabeth DiGangi11, Gabriel Salinas12, Steve Prinzivalli12, Charles Draper12, Charles E Miller13, Ray F Weiss14 and Ralph F Keeling14, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)Carnegie Institution For Scien, Stanford, United States, (6)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (8)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of California Riverside, Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, (10)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (11)Earth Networks Inc., Research and Development, Germantown, United States, (12)Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States, (13)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (14)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Residential Field-based Leakage Measurements and Combustion Emissions from a 10% Hydrogen-Blended Natural Gas System in O'ahu, Hawai'i (1980976)
Drew Michanowicz1, Eric Lebel2, Yannai Kashtan1, Nicole Lucha1, Gan Huang1, Tamara Sparks1, Jeremy K. Domen1, Colin Finnegan3, Samea Derrick4, Allison Cardoso1, Robert B Jackson3 and Seth B.C. Shonkoff1, (1)PSE Healthy Energy, Oakland, United States, (2)Providence College, Providence, RI, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, (4)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, United States
 
Reconciling Building-Sector CO₂ Emissions in Arizona: A Comparative Analysis of HESTIA, AutoBEM, and EDGAR (1981567)
Vivek Kumar Singh1, Hang Li2, Shovan Chowdhury3, Fengqi Li4, Anna Kato5, Kevin R Gurney5, Matei Georgescu6 and Dr. Joshua R New4, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Grid Interactive Controls Group, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Lab, Grid Interactive Controls Group, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, (6)Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Early results from the NASA Goddard EM27/SUN network (1988626)
Hayoung Park1,2, Jason M St Clair3, Thomas F Hanisco1 and Lesley Ott4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States
 
Quantifying FF-CO2 emissions across the Arizona Urban Megaregion using 14C measurements of annual plants (1998893)
Ashley Cadena1,2, Christopher Ebert2, Helen Rowe3, Alyson Welch2, Kevin R Gurney4 and Edward Schuur2,5, (1)Northern Arizona University, Biological Sciences, Flagstaff, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Flagstaff, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, United States, (4)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, (5)Northern Arizona University, Department of Biological Sciences, Flagstaff, United States
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