A global map of emission clumps for future monitoring of fossil fuel CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from space

Wang, Yilong; Ciais, Philippe; Broquet, Grégoire; Bréon, François-Marie; Oda, Tomohiro; Lespinas, Franck; Meijer, Yasjka; Loescher, Armin; Janssens-Maenhout, Greet; Zheng, Bo; Xu, Haoran; Tao, Shu; Gurney, Kevin R.; Roest, Geoffrey; Santaren, Diego; Su, Yongxian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-687-2019

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 687–703, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-687-2019

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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 687–703, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-687-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

17 May 2019

A global map of emission clumps for future monitoring of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions from space

Yilong Wang et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-687-2019-supplement

Data sets

ODIAC Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Dataset Tomohiro Oda and Shamil Maksyutov https://doi.org/10.17595/20170411.001

A global map of emission clumps for future monitoring of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from space Y. Wang, P. Ciais, G. Broquet, F.-M. Bréon, T. Oda, F. Lespinas, Y. Meijer, A. Loescher, G. Janssens‑Maenhout, B. Zheng, H. Xu, S. Tao, D. Santaren, and Y. Su https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7217726.v1

Short summary

We address the question of the global characterization of fossil fuel CO₂ emission hotspots that may cause coherent XCO₂ plumes in space-borne CO₂ images, based on the ODIAC global high-resolution 1 km fossil fuel emission data product. For space imagery with 0.5 ppm precision for a single XCO₂ measurement, a total of 11 314 hotspots are identified, covering 72 % of the global emissions. These hotspots define the targets for the purpose of monitoring fossil fuel CO₂ emissions from space.