science-358-6360-rs-oco-2-co2-source-detection

Spaceborne detection of localized carbon dioxide sources

The observed values of (enhancement of the column-averaged dry-air CO2 mole fraction) correspond to in situ CO2 enhancements of 10-fold or higher. … Although the carbon budget is often presented in terms of global-scale fluxes, many of the contributing processes actually occur through localized point sources, which have been challenging to measure from space.

By Junjie Liu, et al. Oct 11th, 2017