Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2949-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-2949-2019
Research article
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29 May 2019
Research article |  | 29 May 2019

Quantification of CO2 and CH4 emissions over Sacramento, California, based on divergence theorem using aircraft measurements

Ju-Mee Ryoo, Laura T. Iraci, Tomoaki Tanaka, Josette E. Marrero, Emma L. Yates, Inez Fung, Anna M. Michalak, Jovan Tadić, Warren Gore, T. Paul Bui, Jonathan M. Dean-Day, and Cecilia S. Chang

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AR by Ju-Mee Ryoo on behalf of the Authors (28 Feb 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
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RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Mar 2019)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (21 Mar 2019)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (25 Mar 2019) by Christoph Kiemle
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Apr 2019) by Christoph Kiemle
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ED: Publish as is (26 Apr 2019) by Christoph Kiemle
AR by Ju-Mee Ryoo on behalf of the Authors (04 May 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
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Short summary
We designed cylindrical flights and computed the emission fluxes using a kriging method and Gauss's theorem over Sacramento, California. Differences in wind treatment and background affect the emission estimates by a factor of 1.5 to 7. The effects of the vertical layer average and the vertical mass transfer on the emission estimates are found to be small, esp. local scale. The result also suggests a closed-shape flight profile can better contain total emissions than a one-sided curtain flight.