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Journal Article
Investigating regional source and sink patterns of Alpine CO2 and CH4 concentrations based on a back trajectory receptor model
2019
Overview
BackgroundThe main purpose of this paper is to contribute to the improvement in the present knowledge concerning regional carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) exchange as an essential step towards reducing the uncertainties along with bottom-up estimations of their global budget by identifying the characteristic spatial and temporal scales of the regional greenhouse gas fluxes. To this end, we propose a stepwise statistical top-down methodology for examining the relationship between synoptic-scale atmospheric transport patterns and mole fractions of the climate gases to finally receive a characterisation of the sampling sites with regard to the key processes driving the CO2 or CH4 concentration levels.ResultsThe results of this study presented in this paper give detailed insights into the emission structures underlying the measurement time series by means of origin-related examinations of the Alpine CO2 and CH4 budgets. The time series of both climate gases from the atmospheric measurements carried out at the four high-alpine observatories Schneefernerhaus, Jungfraujoch, Sonnblick and Plateau Rosa form the basis for the characterisation of the regional CO2 as well as CH4 budget of the Alpine region as the focus area of the Central European study region. For the investigation area so outlined, the project identifies source and relative sink regions with influence on the Alpine climate gas measurements as well as their temporal variations. The therefore required combination of the measurements with the synoptic situation prevailing at the respective measuring time which carries the information about the origin of the analysed air masses is derived by means of a trajectory-based receptor model. The back trajectory receptor model is set up to decipher with high spatial resolution the most relevant source and sink areas, whereby the Alpine region is identified as a significant relative sink for CO2 as well as for CH4 concentrations all year long, whereas major European emitters show their impact during different seasons.ConclusionsThe reliable results achieved with this approach in connection with the encouraging model-internal uncertainty assessments and external plausibility checks lend credence to our model and its strength to illustrate dependably spatial–temporal variations of the relevant emitters and absorbers of different climate gases (CO2 and CH4) in high spatial resolution.
