A5090838019- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Environmental Policies and Emissions
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Agricultural and Food Sciences
- Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies
- Bamboo properties and applications
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
2021-2024
Utrecht University
2014-2024
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
2024
Abstract. This paper presents a state-of-the-art anthropogenic emission inventory developed for the European domain an 18-year time series (2000–2017) at 0.05∘ × 0.1∘ grid resolution, specifically designed to support air quality modelling. The main pollutants are included: NOx, SO2, non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), NH3, CO, PM10 and PM2.5, also CH4. To stay as close possible emissions officially reported used in policy assessment, uses data by countries UN Framework...
Abstract. Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions is receiving a lot attention because its relevance for climate mitigation. Complementary to official reported bottom-up emission inventories, quantification can be done with an inverse modelling framework, combining atmospheric transport models, prior gridded inventories and network observations optimize the inventories. An important aspect such method correct uncertainties in all aspects framework. The are, however, not systematically...
To mitigate methane emission from urban natural gas distribution systems, it is crucial to understand local leak rates and occurrence rates. explore emissions in cities outside the U.S., where significant were found previously, mobile measurements performed 12 across eight countries. The surveyed range medium size, like Groningen, NL, large Toronto, CA, London, UK. Furthermore, this survey spanned European regions Barcelona, ES, Bucharest, RO. joint analysis of all data allows us focus on...
Abstract. Production of oil and gas in Romania, one the largest producers European Union (EU), is associated with substantial emissions methane to atmosphere may offer high emission mitigation potential reach climate objectives EU. However, comprehensive quantification this area has been lacking. Here we report top-down rate estimates derived from aircraft-based situ measurements that were carried out two aircraft during 2019 ROmanian Methane Emissions Oil (ROMEO) campaign, supported by...
Abstract. Existing CO2 emissions reported by city inventories usually lag in real-time a year or more and are prone to large uncertainties. This study responds the growing need for timely precise estimation of urban support present future mitigation measures policies. We focus on Paris metropolitan area, largest region European Union with densest atmospheric observation network Europe. performed long-term inversions quantify citywide emissions, i.e., fossil fuel as well biogenic sources...
The contribution of aircraft operations to ambient ultrafine particle (UFP) concentration at and around airports can be significant. This review article considers the volatile non-volatile elements particulate matter emissions from engines, their characteristics quantification identifies gaps in knowledge. current state art emission inventory methods dispersion modelling approaches are reviewed areas for improvement research needs identified. Quantification engine (nvPM) is improving as...
Abstract. We present a high-resolution global emission catalogue of CO2 and co-emitted species (NOx, SO2, CO, CH4) from thermal power plants for the year 2018. The construction database follows bottom-up approach, which combines plant-specific information with national energy consumption statistics fuel-dependent factors ratios (e.g. amount NOx emitted relative to CO2: NOx/CO2). resulting contains annual more than 16 000 individual facilities at their exact geographical locations. Each...
Different emissions inventories have been developed in recent years, which provide of gaseous and particulate atmospheric species for the past decades at both global regional scales. As part Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, we CAMS-GLOB-ANT inventory (version 6.2), provides monthly 36 chemical compounds a spatial resolution 0.1x0.1 degree. The evaluation has revealed issues some regions, particularly nitrogen oxides sulfur dioxide. To evaluate dataset more detail, gathered data...
Abstract As the COVID‐19 virus spread over world, governments restricted mobility to slow transmission. Public health measures had different intensities across European countries but all significant impact on people's daily lives and economic activities, causing a drop of CO 2 emissions about 10% for whole year 2020. Here, we analyze changes in natural gas use industry distribution built environment during first half 2020 with flows data from pipeline storage facilities Europe. We find that...
The European Copernicus programme plans to install a constellation of multiple polar orbiting satellites (Copernicus Anthropogenic CO 2 Monitoring Mission, CO2M mission) for observing atmospheric content with the aim estimate fossil fuel emissions. We explore impact potential observations column-averaged (XCO ), nitrogen dioxide (NO and aerosols in 200 × km domain around Berlin. For quantification anticipated XCO random systematic errors we developed applied new error parameterisation...
Emission inventories are the key starting point for understanding causes and possible mitigation of air pollution. They provide information about sources pollution, which can be used in quality models to make air-quality forecasts historical reanalyses. Therefore, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) has a dedicated service global European anthropogenic natural emissions data at high resolution support consistent quality-controlled related pollution health, solar energy,...
Abstract. Targeting satellite observations offer a promising avenue for detecting and quantifying anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from localized point sources at high spatial resolution. In this study, we assess the detection potential of Twin ANthropogenic Greenhouse Observers (TANGO) mission, scheduled 2027, using orbit simulations TNO Global Point Source (GPS) inventory. We examine its target selection approach across three observational scenarios—Clear-Sky, Cloud-Filtered,...
Abstract We use the OMI‐QA4ECV‐v1.1 NO 2 tropospheric columns over 10‐year 2008–2017 period to confront satellite‐based trends in concentrations those from state‐of‐the‐art regional chemistry‐transport model CHIMERE and evaluate bottom‐up anthropogenic biogenic x emissions Europe. A focus is made for 30 most populated urban areas Over Western Europe, except coastal cities, OMI confirms drop simulated based on latest country emission official reporting. hardly shows significant negative...
Abstract. Quantification of land surface–atmosphere fluxes carbon dioxide (CO2) and their trends uncertainties is essential for monitoring progress the EU27+UK bloc as it strives to meet ambitious targets determined by both international agreements internal regulation. This study provides a consolidated synthesis fossil sources (CO2 fossil) natural (including formally managed ecosystems) sinks over land) using bottom-up (BU) top-down (TD) approaches European Union United Kingdom (EU27+UK),...
Abstract. This paper presents a state-of-the-art anthropogenic emission inventory developed for the European domain 18-year time series (2000–2017) at 0.1° × 0.05° grid, specifically designed to support air quality modelling. The main pollutants are included: NOx, SO2, NMVOC, NH3, CO, PM10 and PM2.5 also CH4. To stay as close possible emissions officially reported used in policy assessment, uses where data by countries UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Long-Range Transboundary Air...
Abstract. We have used the variational inversion drivers of recent Community Inversion Framework (CIF), coupled to a European configuration CHIMERE regional chemistry transport model and its adjoint derive carbon monoxide (CO) emissions from Measurement Pollution in Troposphere (MOPITT) TIR-NIR (thermal-infrared near-infrared) observations, for period over 10 years 2011 2021. The analysis results reveals challenges associated with CO at scale Europe. Annual budgets national decreased...
Abstract. Monitoring the spatial distribution and trends in surface greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes, as well flux attribution to natural anthropogenic processes, is essential track progress under Paris Agreement inform its global stocktake. This study updates earlier syntheses (Petrescu et al., 2020, 2021, 2023), provides a consolidated synthesis of CH4 emissions using bottom-up (BU) top-down (TD) approaches for European Union (EU), expanded include seven additional countries with large and/or...
Constraining urban emissions is gaining more attention because of the important role cities in reaching national climate mitigation targets. Urban inverse modelling studies could constrain large hotspots, but still face many challenges. It has been argued that detailed information needed on both atmospheric transport and prior when moving to a higher spatial temporal resolution. In this work we focus description variability examine how it impacts optimization CO2, CH4 CO monthly time scale...
Abstract. We present a high-resolution global emission catalogue of CO2 and co-emitted species (NOx, SO2, CO, CH4) from thermal power plants for the year 2018. The construction database follows bottom-up approach, which combines plant-specific information with national energy consumption statistics fuel-dependent factors ratios. resulting catalog contains annual more than 16000 individual facilities at their exact geographical location. Each facility is linked to specific temporal (i.e.,...
Abstract. Gridded bottom-up inventories of CO2 emissions are needed in global inversion schemes as priors to initialize transport models and a complement top-down estimates identify the anthropogenic sources. Global inversions require gridded datasets almost near-real time that spatially methodologically consistent at scale. This may result loss more detailed information can be assessed by using regional because they built with greater level detail including country-specific finer resolution...
Abstract. Production of oil and gas in Romania, one the largest producers EU, is associated with substantial emissions methane to atmosphere may offer high emission mitigation potential reach climate objectives EU. However, comprehensive quantification this area has been lacking. Here we report top-down rate estimates derived from aircraft-based in-situ measurements that were carried out two aircraft during ROMEO 2019 campaign, supported by simulations atmospheric models. Estimates mass...
Abstract. We present a modelling framework for fossil fuel CO2 emissions in an urban environment, which allows constraints from emission inventories to be combined with atmospheric observations of and its co-emitted species CO, NOx, SO2. Rather than static assignment average rates each unit area the domain, we use are dynamic: they vary time space relation data that describe or approximate activity within sector, such as traffic density, power demand, 2 m temperature (as proxy heating...