Majority of US urban natural gas emissions unaccounted for in inventories

MR Sargent, C Floerchinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Across many cities, estimates of methane emissions from natural gas (NG) distribution and
end use based on atmospheric measurements have generally been more than double …

Environmental co-benefits of urban greening for mitigating heat and carbon emissions

P Li, ZH Wang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban greening has been as a popular and effective strategy for ameliorating urban thermal
environment and air quality. Nevertheless, it remains an outstanding challenge for numerical …

[HTML][HTML] Live fast, die young: Accelerated growth, mortality, and turnover in street trees

IA Smith, VK Dearborn, LR Hutyra - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Municipalities are embracing greening initiatives as a key strategy for improving urban
sustainability and combatting the environmental impacts of expansive urbanization. Many …

Policy-Relevant Assessment of Urban CO2 Emissions

T Lauvaux, KR Gurney, NL Miles, KJ Davis… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Global fossil fuel carbon dioxide (FFCO2) emissions will be dictated to a great degree by the
trajectory of emissions from urban areas. Conventional methods to quantify urban FFCO2 …

Monthly direct and indirect greenhouse gases emissions from household consumption in the major Japanese cities

Y Long, Y Jiang, P Chen, Y Yoshida, A Sharifi… - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
Urban household consumption contributes substantially to global greenhouse gases
(GHGs) emissions. Urban household emissions encompass both direct and indirect …

Large and seasonally varying biospheric CO2 fluxes in the Los Angeles megacity revealed by atmospheric radiocarbon

JB Miller, SJ Lehman, KR Verhulst… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Measurements of Δ14C and CO2 can cleanly separate biogenic and fossil contributions to
CO2 enhancements above background. Our measurements of these tracers in air around …

The Impact of COVID‐19 on CO2 Emissions in the Los Angeles and Washington DC/Baltimore Metropolitan Areas

V Yadav, S Ghosh, K Mueller, A Karion… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Responses to COVID‐19 have resulted in unintended reductions of city‐scale carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions. Here, we detect and estimate decreases in CO2 emissions in Los …

Effects of urban form on carbon emissions in china: implications for low-carbon urban planning

S Zheng, Y Huang, Y Sun - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Carbon emissions are closely related to global warming. More than 70% of global carbon
emissions have been generated in cities. Many studies have analyzed the effects of cities on …

Southern California megacity , , and CO flux estimates using ground- and space-based remote sensing and a Lagrangian model

JK Hedelius, J Liu, T Oda, S Maksyutov… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
We estimate the overall CO 2, CH 4, and CO flux from the South Coast Air Basin using an
inversion that couples Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) and Orbiting …

Urbanization and fragmentation mediate temperate forest carbon cycle response to climate

AB Reinmann, IA Smith, JR Thompson… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Forest fragmentation is ubiquitous across urban and rural areas. While there is mounting
evidence that forest fragmentation alters the terrestrial carbon cycle, the extent to which …