The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2019

Autor: Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu, Chunjing Qiu, Matthew J. McGrath, Philippe Peylin, Glen P. Peters, Philippe Ciais, Rona L. Thompson, Aki Tsuruta, Dominik Brunner, Matthias Kuhnert, Bradley Matthews, Paul I. Palmer, Oksana Tarasova, Pierre Regnier, Ronny Lauerwald, David Bastviken, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Wilfried Winiwarter, Giuseppe Etiope, Tuula Aalto, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Vladislav Bastrikov, Antoine Berchet, Patrick Brockmann, Giancarlo Ciotoli, Giulia Conchedda, Monica Crippa, Frank Dentener, Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink, Diego Guizzardi, Dirk Günther, Jean-Matthieu Haussaire, Sander Houweling, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Massaer Kouyate, Adrian Leip, Antti Leppänen, Emanuele Lugato, Manon Maisonnier, Alistair J. Manning, Tiina Markkanen, Joe McNorton, Marilena Muntean, Gabriel D. Oreggioni, Prabir K. Patra, Lucia Perugini, Isabelle Pison, Maarit T. Raivonen, Marielle Saunois, Arjo J. Segers, Pete Smith, Efisio Solazzo, Hanqin Tian, Francesco N. Tubiello, Timo Vesala, Guido R. van der Werf, Chris Wilson, Sönke Zaehle
Přispěvatelé: Earth and Climate, Earth Sciences, Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), Micrometeorology and biogeochemical cycles, Doctoral Programme in Atmospheric Sciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre (ViPS), Ecosystem processes (INAR Forest Sciences)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Earth System Science Data, 15(3), 1197-1268. Copernicus Publications
Petrescu, A M R, Qiu, C, McGrath, M J, Peylin, P, Peters, G P, Ciais, P, Thompson, R L, Tsuruta, A, Brunner, D, Kuhnert, M, Matthews, B, Palmer, P I, Tarasova, O, Regnier, P, Lauerwald, R, Bastviken, D, Höglund-Isaksson, L, Winiwarter, W, Etiope, G, Aalto, T, Balsamo, G, Bastrikov, V, Berchet, A, Brockmann, P, Ciotoli, G, Conchedda, G, Crippa, M, Dentener, F, Groot Zwaaftink, C D, Guizzardi, D, Günther, D, Haussaire, J M, Houweling, S, Janssens-Maenhout, G, Kouyate, M, Leip, A, Leppänen, A, Lugato, E, Maisonnier, M, Manning, A J, Markkanen, T, McNorton, J, Muntean, M, Oreggioni, G D, Patra, P K, Perugini, L, Pison, I, Raivonen, M T, Saunois, M, Segers, A J, Smith, P, Solazzo, E, Tian, H, Tubiello, F N, Vesala, T, Van Der Werf, G R, Wilson, C & Zaehle, S 2023, ' The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990-2019 ', Earth System Science Data, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1197-1268 . https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1197-2023
Earth System Science Data
ISSN: 1866-3508
1866-3516
DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-1197-2023
Popis: Knowledge of the spatial distribution of the fluxes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and their temporal variability as well as flux attribution to natural and anthropogenic processes is essential to monitoring the progress in mitigating anthropogenic emissions under the Paris Agreement and to inform its global stocktake. This study provides a consolidated synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions using bottom-up (BU) and top-down (TD) approaches for the European Union and UK (EU27 + UK) and updates earlier syntheses (Petrescu et al., 2020, 2021). The work integrates updated emission inventory data, process-based model results, data-driven sector model results and inverse modeling estimates, and it extends the previous period of 1990–2017 to 2019. BU and TD products are compared with European national greenhouse gas inventories (NGHGIs) reported by parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2021. Uncertainties in NGHGIs, as reported to the UNFCCC by the EU and its member states, are also included in the synthesis. Variations in estimates produced with other methods, such as atmospheric inversion models (TD) or spatially disaggregated inventory datasets (BU), arise from diverse sources including within-model uncertainty related to parameterization as well as structural differences between models. By comparing NGHGIs with other approaches, the activities included are a key source of bias between estimates, e.g., anthropogenic and natural fluxes, which in atmospheric inversions are sensitive to the prior geospatial distribution of emissions. For CH4 emissions, over the updated 2015–2019 period, which covers a sufficiently robust number of overlapping estimates, and most importantly the NGHGIs, the anthropogenic BU approaches are directly comparable, accounting for mean emissions of 20.5 Tg CH4 yr−1 (EDGARv6.0, last year 2018) and 18.4 Tg CH4 yr−1 (GAINS, last year 2015), close to the NGHGI estimates of 17.5±2.1 Tg CH4 yr−1. TD inversion estimates give higher emission estimates, as they also detect natural emissions. Over the same period, high-resolution regional TD inversions report a mean emission of 34 Tg CH4 yr−1. Coarser-resolution global-scale TD inversions result in emission estimates of 23 and 24 Tg CH4 yr−1 inferred from GOSAT and surface (SURF) network atmospheric measurements, respectively. The magnitude of natural peatland and mineral soil emissions from the JSBACH–HIMMELI model, natural rivers, lake and reservoir emissions, geological sources, and biomass burning together could account for the gap between NGHGI and inversions and account for 8 Tg CH4 yr−1. For N2O emissions, over the 2015–2019 period, both BU products (EDGARv6.0 and GAINS) report a mean value of anthropogenic emissions of 0.9 Tg N2O yr−1, close to the NGHGI data (0.8±55 % Tg N2O yr−1). Over the same period, the mean of TD global and regional inversions was 1.4 Tg N2O yr−1 (excluding TOMCAT, which reported no data). The TD and BU comparison method defined in this study can be operationalized for future annual updates for the calculation of CH4 and N2O budgets at the national and EU27 + UK scales. Future comparability will be enhanced with further steps involving analysis at finer temporal resolutions and estimation of emissions over intra-annual timescales, which is of great importance for CH4 and N2O, and may help identify sector contributions to divergence between prior and posterior estimates at the annual and/or inter-annual scale. Even if currently comparison between CH4 and N2O inversion estimates and NGHGIs is highly uncertain because of the large spread in the inversion results, TD inversions inferred from atmospheric observations represent the most independent data against which inventory totals can be compared. With anticipated improvements in atmospheric modeling and observations, as well as modeling of natural fluxes, TD inversions may arguably emerge as the most powerful tool for verifying emission inventories for CH4, N2O and other GHGs. The referenced datasets related to figures are visualized at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7553800 (Petrescu et al., 2023).
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