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Towards validation of urban GHG emissions using a very high resolution atmospheric inversion in the Indianapolis Flux Experiment Kenneth J. Davis 1, Thomas Lauvaux 1, Laura E. McGowan 1, Maria Cambaliza 2, Michael Hardesty 3, Laura T. Iraci 4, Kevin R. Gurney 5, Patrick W. Hillyard 4, Anna Karion 3, Natasha L. Miles 1, James R. Podolske 4, Igor Razlivanov 5, Scott J. Richardson 1, Daniel P. Sarmiento 1, Paul B. Shepson 2, Yang Song 5, Colm Sweeney 2, Jocelyn Turnbull 6, James Whetstone 7 1 The Pennsylvania State University, 2 Purdue University, 3 NOAA ESRL, 4 NASA Ames, 5 Arizona State University, 6 GNS Science, 7 NIST AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 7 December, 2012 GC51G-02

INFLUX Objectives Test “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to urban anthropogenic CO 2 and CH 4 emissions quantification. –Compare whole-city estimates using three different approaches (inventory, tower inversion, aircraft budget). –Determine GHG emissions at 1 km 2 resolution and with 10% precision and accuracy across the city using atmospheric inversions. –Quantify the uncertainty in atmospheric budget and inversion methods at the urban scale

Outline Inversion system description Observations! Forwards modeling –Simulated influence of boundary conditions –Influence of sectoral emissions –(Model-data comparisons) – only qualitative Atmospheric inversions –System design experiment –(Real data inversions)

Inversion system Not a model! A system for model-data synthesis

Tower-based atmospheric inversion system Air Parcel Sources Sinks wind Sample Network of tower-based GHG sensors: (~11-12 sites with CO 2, CH 4, CO and 14 CO 2 ) Atmospheric transport model: (WRF-chem, 1-2 km) Prior flux estimate: (Hestia and Vulcan, EDGAR and EPA, CT posterior and/or VPRM) Boundary and initial conditions (GHGs/met): (Carbon Tracker, NOAA aircraft profiles, NCEP meteorology)

Inversion system, continued Lagragian Particle Dispersion Model (LPDM, Uliasz). –Determines “influence function” – the areas that contribute to GHG concentrations at measurement points.

Inversion system Estimated together (following Lauvaux et al., 2012, ACPD) Uncertainties (flux and observational) estimates from model-data comparisons in the study region. WRF vs LPDM Purdue aircraft campaign NOAA aircraft, boundary towers Lateral boundary CO2 Flux tower sites Instrument error R B y Hx 0 x0x0 H x y-Hx 0

Modifications for INFLUX Urban boundary layer and land surface simulated (well?) in WRF-Chem. Evaluate with meteorological observations. CO/CO 2 / 14 CO 2 incorporated to disaggregate fossil and biogenic CO 2. (A31H-02: Turnbull) Strong, relatively well-known point sources quantified prior to regional inversion. –power plant – CO 2 –landfill, waste water treatment plant – CH 4

Observations GC53B-1279: Cambaliza GC53B-1284: Miles

INFLUX ground-based instrumentation GC53B-1284: Miles Picarro, CRDS sensors; NOAA automated flask samplers; Communications towers ~100m AGL

Status of ground-based observational system 9 GHG towers installed and running (1 to be moved, 3 more to be installed ASAP). 1 flux system installed, 3 more in prep. Doppler lidar scheduled for installation this winter. TCCON to be removed next week. Deployment and operation of a network like this is a large effort. Use our data!

Observed: Comparison of [CO2] at 8 INFLUX sites September – November [CO2] at 3 pm local at 8 sites in the Indianapolis area Synoptic-scale variability in [CO2] is apparent * Note: Tower heights range from 40 m AGL to 136 m AGL 15 Sept 15 Oct 15 Nov 2012

Observed: Comparison of [CO2] at 8 INFLUX sites September – November 2012 [CO2] at 3 pm local at 8 sites, with 15-day smoothing (removes most of the weather-driven variability) * Note: Tower heights range from 40 m AGL to 136 m AGL 15 Sept 15 Oct 15 Nov 2012

Observed: Comparison of [CO2] at 8 INFLUX sites September – November 2012 Site 03 (downtown) is consistently higher than the other sites. Site 09 (background site to the east of the city) measures the lowest average [CO2] * Note: Tower heights range from 40 m AGL to 136 m AGL

INFLUX ground-based instrumentation GC53B-1284: Miles Picarro, CRDS sensors; NOAA automated flask samplers; Communications towers ~100m AGL

Observed: Dependence of CO2 spatial gradient on wind speed 15 Nov 2012 at 3 pm local Winds: calm Light winds: 15 ppm difference midday

12 Nov 2012 at 3 pm local Winds: 9 m/s from the west Strong winds: < 2 ppm difference midday Observed: Dependence of CO2 spatial gradient on wind speed

CH4 Enhancement (Site 02 – Site 01) as a Function of Wind Direction April – November 2011 (Afternoon hours only) Note the LARGE day to day variability!

CH4 Enhancement (Site 02 – Site 01) as a Function of Wind Direction April – November 2011 (Afternoon hours only) CH4 enhancement N E S W 5 10 Green arrows point to the source for enhancements measured at Site 02, whereas the black arrows point to the source for enhancements measured at Site 01 In addition to the known source to the southeast of Site 02, there is an additional source to the southwest of the city.

INFLUX ground-based instrumentation GC53B-1284: Miles Picarro, CRDS sensors; NOAA automated flask samplers; Communications towers ~100m AGL

CO2 Enhancement (Site 02 – Site 01) as a Function of Wind Direction

April – November 2011 (Afternoon hours only)

CO Is the CO enhancement reduced when the wind is from the power plant?

TCCON vs in-situ comparison: CO2

TCCON vs in-situ comparison: CH4 Are the residuals indicative of variability in Free Tropopsheric mole fractions?

Forward model results

Status of modeling system WRF-Chem running with: –3 nested domains, inner domain 1km 2 resolution, 87x87 km 2 domain –Meteorological data assimilation –Hestia anthropogenic fluxes for the inner domain –Vulcan anthropogenic fluxes for the outer domains –Carbon Tracker posterior biogenic fluxes –Carbon Tracker boundary conditions

Status of modeling system LDPM influence functions computed for Oct 7 th – Nov 10 th, 2011 and 3 flights in “Forward” simulations for Oct 7 th – Nov 10 th, 2011 and 5 flights in 2011 with: –Hestia emissions to examine sectoral CO2 influences at various towers (but simple boundary conditions and no biogenic fluxes). –Vulcan emissions with CT biogenic fluxes and lateral boundary conditions Inversion system test, neglecting influence of lateral boundary conditions and biogenic fluxes (Real data inversion) – not yet

Status of modeling system Model-data comparisons –Case studies of vertical mixing, plume dispersion – last AGU –(Comparison of long-term patterns in GHG mixing ratios) - qualitative –(Long-term evaluation of meteorological performance) - pending –(Comparisons of flight data to atmospheric simulations) - pending

Vulcan emissions in the atmosphere

Outer domain Vulcan emissions Vulcan emissions cropped – Hestia within inner domain

Paul showed you the movie

Can we detect anthropogenic emissions? Or do biogenic fluxes and lateral boundary conditions dominate?

Winter CO2 differences, tower 2 vs. 1 Total CO2 difference Each point is 20 minutes. 10 day sequence. Midday data. Includes full suite of boundary conditions and biogenic fluxes. Note drop with wind speed. Mole fraction (ppm)

Winter CO2 differences, tower 2 vs. 1: Broken down by source of CO2 Anthropogenic within domain fluxes, 10 ppm scale Biogenic within domain fluxes, 0.5 ppm scale Total boundary condition inflow, 12 ppm scale Tentative conclusion: Inflow is of similar magnitude to Indy anthro fluxes. Similar conclusion for bio fluxes in summer?

Inversion experiment: Network test

Inversion system test 6 tower system tested, hourly daytime data Prior fluxes with and without strong point sources Prior errors proportional to fluxes Prior error correlations 3km, isotropic, correlated with land cover Noise added with same spatial statistics, 80% of flux magnitude 7 day Bayesian matrix inversion, November No biogenic fluxes, no boundary conditions

Hestia total emissions without point sources Flux units: gC m-2 hr-1. Point sources need special treatment

Prior emissions errors Flux units: gC m-2 hr-1. Standard deviation = 80% of flux

Particle touchdown for July 12, 2011 after a) 12 hours and b) 72 hours. Touchdown is considered within 50m of surface. The background values are EPA 4km CO. Sample of influence functions for 6 towers

Gain – relative improvement prior vs. posterior Flux units: gC m-2 hr-1. 1 = perfect correction to prior fluxes Very good system performance within the tower array. Very idealized case, but encouraging nonetheless.

Hestia emissions in the atmosphere Can we isolate fluxes from individual emission sectors?

Hestia sectoral emissions within the inner domain Road sector Residential sector Commercial sector Industrial sector

Hestia sectoral emission atmospheric mole fractions Road sector Residential sector Commercial sector Industrial sector [CO 2 ] Oct 8 th 17:00LT Mixing ratios of tenths to a few ppm

Sectoral atmospheric mole fractions, tower by tower Winter mean mole fractions 6 of 12 tower sites Midday ABL mixing ratio (ppm) mobileindustcommerresidpowerplant Site 1: background Site 2: downwind Site 10: powerplant! Small mixing ratios(?) Some structure across towers by sector. Site 1 Site

INFLUX ground-based instrumentation GC53B-1284: Miles Picarro, CRDS sensors; NOAA automated flask samplers; Communications towers ~100m AGL

Conclusions Tower observations detect a clear urban signal in both CO2 and CH4 (buried amid lots of synoptic “noise”). Simulations suggest thatlateral boundary conditions (and biogenic fluxes?) are of similar magnitude to urban emissions in determining tower-tower differences in CO2. Inversion system with 6 towers performs very well under idealized conditions. Sector contributions are likely difficult to identify from tower CO2 alone.