Abstract
Using co-located space-based measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 and 3 (OCO-2/3) and carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), we calculate total column enhancements for observations influenced by anthropogenic emissions from urban regions relative to clean background values. We apply this method to observations taken over or downwind of 27 large (> 1 million population) urban areas from around the world. Enhancement ratios between species are calculated and compared to emission ratios derived from four globally gridded anthropogenic emission inventories. We find that these global inventories underestimate CO emissions in many North American and European cities relative to our observed enhancement ratios, while smaller differences were found for NO2 emissions. We further demonstrate that the calculation and intercomparison of enhancement ratios of multiple tracers can help to identify the underlying biases leading to disagreement between observations and inventories. Additionally, we use high-resolution CO2 inventories for two cities (Los Angeles and Indianapolis) to estimate emissions of CO and NO2 using our calculated enhancement ratios, and find good agreement with both a previous modelling study for the Los Angeles megacity and California Air Resource Board (CARB) inventory estimates.
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