What can we learn from European continuous atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> measurements to quantify regional fluxes – Part 1: Potential of the network
Author:
Carouge C.,Bousquet P.,Peylin P.,Rayner P. J.,Ciais P.
Abstract
Abstract. An inverse model using atmospheric CO2 observations from a European network of stations to reconstruct daily CO2 fluxes and their uncertainties over Europe at 50 km resolution has been developed within a Bayesian framework. In this first part, a pseudo-data experiment is performed to assess the potential of continuous measurements over Europe using a network of 10 stations such as in 2001. Under the assumptions of a small observation noise and a perfect atmospheric transport model, the reconstruction of daily CO2 fluxes and in particular of their synoptic variability is best over Western Europe where the network is the densest. At least a 10 days temporal and a 1000 km spatial averaging of the inverted daily/50 km fluxes is required in order to obtain a good agreement between the estimated and the "true" fluxes in terms of correlation and variability. The performances of the inversion system rapidly degrade when fluxes are sought for a smaller temporal or spatial averaging.
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
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