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NACP: Greenhouse Gases Across Expanded Urban Network, 2000-2019

Submitted by ORNL DAAC Staff on 2022-02-21
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Carbon dioxide concentrations at the MUR site in Salt Lake City, Utah, show a pronounced seasonal pattern of higher CO2 in the winter months.
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Carbon dioxide concentrations at the MUR site in Salt Lake City, Utah, show a pronounced seasonal pattern of higher CO2 in the winter months. 

The ORNL DAAC recently released an update to the following North American Carbon Program (NACP) dataset by Mitchell, L.E., et al. (2021):

NACP: Urban Greenhouse Gases across the CO2 Urban Synthesis and Analysis Network, V2

This dataset provides hourly urban greenhouse gas measurements for cities in the CO2 Urban Synthesis and Analysis (CO2-USA) Data Synthesis Network for 2000 to 2019. Measurements include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations measured at hourly intervals at multiple sites within the U.S. cities of Boston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Washington DC/Baltimore, and Toronto, Canada.

These data expand the temporal range of greenhouse gas measurements provided in the first version of the dataset and include two additional cities.

The North American Carbon Program (NACP) is a multi-disciplinary research program designed to obtain scientific understanding of North America's carbon sources and sinks and of the changes in carbon stocks needed to meet societal concerns, and to provide tools for decision makers. NACP began in 2002 and continues to date. The NACP data collection contains continental carbon budgets, dynamics, processes, and management of the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide, methane, and carbon monoxide in North America and in adjacent ocean regions.

Additional data from NACP and other relevant links can be found on the ORNL DAAC's NACP Project Page.

Citation: Mitchell, L.E., J.C. Lin, L.R. Hutyra, D.R. Bowling, R.C. Cohen, K.J. Davis, A. Guha, A. Karion, R.F. Keeling, J.J. Kim, N.L. Miles, C.E. Miller, S. Newman, S. Prinzivalli, A. Rice, S.J. Richardson, M. Sargent, K.R. Verhulst, F. Vogel, R.F. Weiss, J. Whetstone, and S.C. Wofsy. 2021. NACP: Urban Greenhouse Gases across the CO2 Urban Synthesis and Analysis Network, V2. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1916

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