SMARTCARB – Use of satellite measurements of auxiliary reactive trace gases for fossil fuel carbon dioxide emission estimation

This report summarizes the results of the study. The report was compiled from the project deliverables written during the study. Section 2 describes requirements for model simulations covering a large city and a larger power plant. Section 3 specifies the range of considered observation characteristics for creating the synthetic datasets of CO2, CO and NO2 satellite observations. Section 4 describes the generation of synthetic satellite observations from the “nature runs” and shows examples of resulting two-dimensional fields and satellite observations. Section 5 describes the estimation of the CO2 emissions from Berlin and Jänschwalde power stations. Finally, Section 6 summarizes the study and gives recommendations.