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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
Quantifying trace gas emissions and the influence of surface exchange processes on the atmosphere is a necessary step towards the control of global greenhouse gas emissions and reliability of air quality models. This paper proposes a procedure based on the mass balance method and implemented on highly resolved aircraft data. It allows one to estimate surface exchanges on areas of several km2 and heterogeneous features exploiting the characteristics of convective boundary layer during steady state conditions that permit the estimation of emission/absorption terms as functions of advective fluxes only. A nonparametric approach is adopted and the fluxes on the surface of a virtual box surrounding the area of interest are reconstructed on the basis of scalar densities and wind vectors using Shepard functions. Two different techniques are also proposed to face lack of data on the top surface of the box. The …
Publisher: 
Pergamon
Publication date: 
1 May 2010
Authors: 

S Alfieri, U Amato, MF Carfora, M Esposito, V Magliulo

Biblio References: 
Volume: 44 Issue: 15 Pages: 1866-1876
Origin: 
Atmospheric Environment