title: A novel approach for independent budgeting of fossil fuel CO2 over Europe by 14CO2 observations
creator: Levin, Ingeborg
creator: Kromer, Bernd
creator: Schmidt, Martina
creator: Sartorius, Hartmut
subject: 530
subject: 530 Physics
description: Long-term atmospheric 14CO2 observations are deployed to quantify fossil fuel derived CO2 concentrations at a regional polluted site, and at a continental mountain station in south-west Germany. Fossil fuel CO2 emission rates for the relevant catchment areas are obtained by applying the Radon-Tracer-Method. They are shown to compare well with statistical emissions inventories but reveal a larger seasonality than assumed earlier, thus contributing significantly to the observed CO2 seasonal cycle over Europe. Based on the present approach, emissions reductions on the order of 5-10% are detectable for catchment areas of several hundred kilometres radius, as anticipated within a five-years commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Still no significant change of fossil fuel CO2 emissions is observed at the two sites over the last 16 years.
date: 2003
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/6727/1/LevinGRL2003.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00006727
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-67274
identifier:   Levin, Ingeborg ; Kromer, Bernd ; Schmidt, Martina ; Sartorius, Hartmut  (2003) A novel approach for independent budgeting of fossil fuel CO2 over Europe by 14CO2 observations.  Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (23).       
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language: eng