New method for monitoring human carbon dioxide emissions from space

The study developed a new method to calculate carbon dioxide (CO₂) and nitrogen oxide (NOₓ) emissions from cities and power plants. The method is based on calculating the divergence, and it utilises satellite observations from over a long period of time, such as one year.

The study was conducted in collaboration with the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Swiss Empa institute. The CoCO2 project from the EU’s H2020 programme, the DACES project funded by the European Space Agency ESA and the Academy of Finland’s CitySpot, Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center ACCC and Centre of Excellence of Inverse Modelling and Imaging have participated in its funding.

Further information:

Senior Researcher Janne Hakkarainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, janne.hakkarainen@fmi.fi

Senior Researcher Iolanda Ialongo, Finnish Meteorological Institute, iolanda.ialongo@fmi.fi

Scientific article is available on Frontiers in Remote Sensing

Reference: Janne Hakkarainen, Iolanda Ialongo, Erik Koene, Monika E. Szeląg, Johanna Tamminen, Gerrit Kuhlmann, Dominik Brunner: Analyzing Local Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxide Emissions From Space Using the Divergence Method: An Application to the Synthetic SMARTCARB Dataset, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, vol 3, 2022, doi:10.3389/frsen.2022.878731, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsen.2022.878731.