Chapter 3: Energy Systems. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report

Marcotullio, Peter J.; Davis, Steven J.; Engel-Cox, Jill; Field, John; Gately, C.; Gurney, K. R.; Kammen, D. M.; McGlynn, Emily; McMahon, James E.; Morrow, William R.; Ocko, Ilissa B.; Torrie, Ralph D.

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“…However, such an understanding requires further confirmation with local authorities of each city to verify what efforts have been implemented for reducing fossil fuel consumption. Since the combustion of fossil fuels generally accounts for a major source of carbon emissions in urban areas (Marcotullio et al, 2018), temporal modeling of X CO2 and FF CO2 measurements would provide a rough but quick verification of carbon mitigation strategies in cities. Since the combustion of fossil fuels generally accounts for a major source of carbon emissions in urban areas (Marcotullio et al, 2018), temporal modeling of X CO2 and FF CO2 measurements would provide a rough but quick verification of carbon mitigation strategies in cities.…”

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“…The decomposition of X CO2 measurements into the trend component also enabled tracking of fossil fuel consumptions over time (R 2 = 0.55 in Figure 5). Since the combustion of fossil fuels generally accounts for a major source of carbon emissions in urban areas (Marcotullio et al, 2018), temporal modeling of X CO2 and FF CO2 measurements would provide a rough but quick verification of carbon mitigation strategies in cities.…”

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A Comparative Analysis of Anthropogenic CO₂ Emissions at City Level Using OCO‐2 Observations: A Global Perspective

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Satellite observations of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions within urban settings offer unique potential to understand carbon sources and sinks and evaluate carbon mitigation strategies. Despite availability of column-averaged dry air mole fraction of CO 2 (X CO2 ) from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), temporal variations of X CO2 and their drivers in cities remain poorly understood due to inconsistent definitions of urban extent, diverse urban forms, and unresolved impacts of urban vegetation on carbon fluxes. To this end, this study revealed that OCO-2 X CO2 measurements from 2014 to 2018 exhibited statistically significant seasonal and trend components for each city. A correlation analysis suggested a weak association between X CO2 trends and fossil fuel CO 2 emissions (FF CO2 ) trends but a close relationship between yearly average X CO2 and FF CO2 trends. Vegetation abundance exhibited a negative relationship with the X CO2 seasonality, though it only explained 21% of the variance. No statistically significant relationship between urban morphological factors (areal extent, complexity, and compactness) and temporal X CO2 components was observed. However, urban morphological factors had a close relationship with the total amount of FF CO2 aggregated over the study period. Thus, it was speculated that urban morphological factors exerted their influence on X CO2 through fossil fuel consumption. When only cities of high normalized difference vegetation index seasonality were used, statistically significant correlation coefficients between urban morphological factors and winter/summer averaged X CO2 measurements were found. The variations of these correlation coefficients between leaf-on and leaf-off seasons stress the important role that urban trees play in mitigating carbon emissions in cities. Key Points:• X CO 2 variation is associated with fossil fuel CO 2 emission, vegetation abundance, and urban form • Fossil fuel CO 2 emissions are highly related to urban morphological factors • Trees (or vegetation) play an important role in mitigating CO 2 emissions in cities Supporting Information:• Supporting Information S1

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A Comparative Analysis of Anthropogenic CO₂ Emissions at City Level Using OCO‐2 Observations: A Global Perspective

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