eprintid: 33558 rev_number: 16 eprint_status: archive userid: 7512 dir: disk0/00/03/35/58 datestamp: 2023-07-24 08:49:59 lastmod: 2023-07-31 07:35:50 status_changed: 2023-07-24 08:49:59 type: doctoralThesis metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Maier, Fabian Manuel title: Estimating fossil fuel carbon dioxide (ffCO2) emissions in the Rhine Valley metropolitan region from local atmospheric observations in Heidelberg subjects: ddc-530 divisions: i-130500 adv_faculty: af-13 keywords: atmospheric transport inversion, fossil fuel CO2 emissions, radiocarbon, carbon monoxide, point source emissions cterms_swd: Kohlenstoffkreislauf cterms_swd: Atmosphärischer Transport cterms_swd: CO2 abstract: This cumulative dissertation investigates the potential of radiocarbon (14C)-based and carbon monoxide (∆CO)-based fossil fuel CO2 (∆ffCO2) estimates from the urban observation site Heidelberg to deduce the seasonal cycle of the ffCO2 emissions in the Rhine Valley. For this, the CarboScope inversion system is used to investigate the benefit of few but accurate 14C-based ∆ffCO2 estimates from about 100 hourly flask samples collected in 2019 and 2020, compared to a continuous ∆CO-based ∆ffCO2 record with about 4 times larger uncertainty. The urban observation site with large ffCO2 point sources in the vicinity places special demands on the transport model. Therefore, a method is developed for the high-resolution Weather Research and Forecasting - Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport model (WRF-STILT) to represent the effective emission heights of point sources. This work shows that the 14C-based ∆ffCO2 observations contain the seasonal cycle of the ffCO2 emissions, but do not lead to robust inversion results. In contrast, the continuous ∆CO-based ∆ffCO2 estimates provide robust and data-driven seasonal cycles that show the distinct COVID-19 signal in 2020 and are suitable for validating the amplitude and phasing of the seasonal cycle of the emission inventories in the main footprint of Heidelberg. date: 2023 id_scheme: DOI id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00033558 ppn_swb: 1853919195 own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-335585 date_accepted: 2023-07-12 advisor: HASH(0x5608ca4fd298) language: eng bibsort: MAIERFABIAESTIMATING2023 full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Heidelberg citation: Maier, Fabian Manuel (2023) Estimating fossil fuel carbon dioxide (ffCO2) emissions in the Rhine Valley metropolitan region from local atmospheric observations in Heidelberg. [Dissertation] document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/33558/1/Dissertation_Fabian_Maier_final.pdf