Real-world wintertime CO, N2O, and CO2 emissions of a central European village
Haszpra, Laszlo ; Barcza, Zoltán ; Ferenczi, Zita ; Hollos, Roland ; Kern, Aniko and Kljun, Natascha LU
(2022)
In Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
15(17).
p.5019-5031
- Abstract
Although small rural settlements are only minor individual sources of greenhouse gases and air pollution, their high overall occurrence can significantly contribute to the total emissions of a region or country. Emissions from a rural lifestyle may be remarkably different than those of urban and industrialized regions, but nevertheless they have hardly been studied so far. Here, flux measurements at a tall-tower eddy covariance monitoring site and the footprint model FFP are used to determine the real-world wintertime CO, N2O, and CO2 emissions of a small village in western Hungary. The recorded emission densities, dominantly resulting from residential heating, are 3.5, 0.043, and 72 μg m-2 s-1 for CO, N2O, and CO2, respectively. While... (More)
Although small rural settlements are only minor individual sources of greenhouse gases and air pollution, their high overall occurrence can significantly contribute to the total emissions of a region or country. Emissions from a rural lifestyle may be remarkably different than those of urban and industrialized regions, but nevertheless they have hardly been studied so far. Here, flux measurements at a tall-tower eddy covariance monitoring site and the footprint model FFP are used to determine the real-world wintertime CO, N2O, and CO2 emissions of a small village in western Hungary. The recorded emission densities, dominantly resulting from residential heating, are 3.5, 0.043, and 72 μg m-2 s-1 for CO, N2O, and CO2, respectively. While the measured CO and CO2 emissions are comparable to those calculated using the assumed energy consumption and applying the according emission factors, the nitrous oxide emissions exceed the expected value by a magnitude. This may indicate that the nitrous oxide emissions are significantly underestimated in the emission inventories, and modifications in the methodology of emission calculations are necessary. Using a three-dimensional forward transport model, we further show that, in contrast to the flux measurements, the concentration measurements at the regional background monitoring site are only insignificantly influenced by the emissions of the nearby village.
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- author
- Haszpra, Laszlo
; Barcza, Zoltán
; Ferenczi, Zita
; Hollos, Roland
; Kern, Aniko
and Kljun, Natascha
LU
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- 2022-09-01
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
- volume
- 15
- issue
- 17
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- Copernicus GmbH
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85140389996
- scopus:85140389996
- ISSN
- 1867-8548
- DOI
- 10.5194/amt-15-5019-2022
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- English
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- yes
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