Can semi-continuous carbon dioxide measurements taken from an instrument placed on top of a mobile light rail tram usefully improve urban emission estimates? Researchers, funded in part by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, & Climate (AC4) program, demonstrate not only that the measurements improve emission estimates but also that the measurements better capture spatial differences in emissions. 

Supported in part by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate (AC4) Program, scientists from two University of Colorado institutes and NOAA participated in an intensive field campaign that used instrumented aircraft and vans to investigate the causes or sources of a methane hotspot in the U.S. Southwest. 

Published as a NOAA Technical Report, this white paper identifies the NOAA mission requirements, stakeholder mandates, and seven science and operational application areas that will benefit from geostationary satellite instruments providing atmospheric composition products. 

Researchers funded in part by AC4 have developed a fire prediction model which incorporates multiple machine learning algorithms to better predict areas burned by wildfire in the US south central region.