A Multi-city Urban Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Measurement Data Synthesis

Authors

Logan E. Mitchell, University of Utah
John C. Lin, University of Utah
Lucy R. Hutyra, Boston University
David R. Bowling, University of Utah
Ronald C. Cohen, University of California Berkeley
Kenneth J. Davis, The Pennsylvania State University
Elizabeth DiGangi, Earth Networks, Inc.
Riley M. Duren, University of Arizona
Andrew Rice, Portland State UniversityFollow
multiple additional authors

Published In

Scientific Data

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-24-2022

Subjects

Greenhouse gases, Methane -- Emissions

Abstract

Urban regions emit a large fraction of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) that contribute to modern-day climate change. As such, a growing number of urban policymakers and stakeholders are adopting emission reduction targets and implementing policies to reach those targets. Over the past two decades research teams have established urban GHG monitoring networks to determine how much, where, and why a particular city emits GHGs, and to track changes in emissions over time. Coordination among these efforts has been limited, restricting the scope of analyses and insights. Here we present a harmonized data set synthesizing urban GHG observations from cities with monitoring networks across North America that will facilitate cross-city analyses and address scientific questions that are difficult to address in isolation.

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Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01467-3

DOI

10.1038/s41597-022-01467-3

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37937

Citation Details

Mitchell, L. E., Lin, J. C., Hutyra, L. R., Bowling, D. R., Cohen, R. C., Davis, K. J., ... & Wofsy, S. C. (2022). A multi-city urban atmospheric greenhouse gas measurement data synthesis. Scientific Data, 9(1), 1-9.