1. A new method for estimating emission ratios in the urban atmosphere: examples of ratios to CO2, CO and volatile organic compounds in Paris
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Ammoura, Lamia, Xueref-Remy, Irène, Vogel, Felix, Gros, V., Baudic, Alexia, Bonsang, Bernard, Delmotte, Marc, Té, Yao-Veng, Chevallier, Frédéric, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), ANR-09-BLAN-0356,MEGAPOLI-PARIS,MEGAPOLI - PARIS : Pollution des AéRosols: Impact sur la qualité de l'air et quantification des Sources(2009), and ANR-09-BLAN-0222,CO2-MEGAPARIS,Quantification des émissions de CO2 en Ile-de-France(2009)
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[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] - Abstract
International audience; We propose a new approach to estimate urban emission ratios that takes advantage of the enhanced local urban signal in the atmosphere at low wind speed. We apply it to estimate monthly ratios between CO$_2$, CO and some VOCs from several atmospheric concentration measurement datasets acquired in the centre of Paris between 2010 and 2014. We find that this approach is little sensitive to the regional background level definition and that, in the case of Paris, it samples all days (weekdays and weekends) and all hours of the day evenly. A large seasonal variability of the $\Delta$CO/$\Delta$CO$_ 2$ratio in Paris is shown, with a difference of around 60 % between the extreme values and a strong anti-correlation ($r^2$ = 0.75) with atmospheric temperature. The comparison of the ratios obtained for two short measurement campaigns conducted in two different districts and two different periods (fall and winter) shows differences ranging from -120 to 63 %. A comparison with a highly resolved regional emission inventory suggests some spatial variations of the ratio within the city, although most of these differences seem to be rather driven by the seasonal variability.
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- 2023