Descrizione del progetto
Un approccio congiunto per la quantificazione delle emissioni
La comunicazione delle emissioni è importante e avviene in base a due metodi differenti: uno è il metodo bottom-up, che stima le emissioni attraverso l’analisi dei dati di attività abbinati a fattori di emissione; l’altro è il metodo top-down, che stima le emissioni sulla base delle osservazioni della concentrazione atmosferica. Un approccio di tipo congiunto, sebbene sia considerato una buona pratica, viene utilizzato soltanto da alcuni paesi. In questo contesto, il progetto PARIS, finanziato dall’UE, mira ad aumentare considerevolmente l’adozione di questo approccio congiunto in merito alla valutazione delle emissioni. Per otto paesi europei il progetto prevede la stesura di allegati annuali ai rapporti sugli inventari nazionali (NIR, National Inventory Report). L’obiettivo generale è quello di aumentare (quadruplicare) il numero di paesi che includono stime top-down delle emissioni nei loro NIR.
Obiettivo
There are only a few countries worldwide, and only two in Europe (the UK and Switzerland, via our team), who routinely report their emissions using bottom-up (inventory) and top-down (atmospheric data-based) methods together. The central aim of PARIS is to significantly increase the uptake of this joint approach to emissions evaluation. We target research areas that have been shown, through our previous successes, to be of high value to inventory compilers, or have been only partly explored in previous projects. To engage inventory teams early in the project, we focus on new emissions estimates for fluorinated gases (F-gases), which have relatively simple source distributions, but poorly understood magnitudes. We will extend to eight countries across Europe our proven approach in using top-down constraints to evaluate inventory F-gas models. For greenhouse gases (GHGs) with a more complex mixture of sources, methane and carbon dioxide, research in PARIS focuses on the attribution of fluxes to particular sources and sinks. We will advance our world-leading isotopologue measurements and tracer-based analysis methods, providing inventory teams with new information to target areas of uncertainty. For nitrous oxide, a GHG for which most European inventories rely on highly simplified and uncertain bottom-up methods, two process-level models will be advanced to produce time- and space-resolved estimates that will be evaluated against isotopic data. For the important, but complex, climate forcers, organic matter aerosol and black carbon, we will take the next steps required towards robust top-down emissions inference by developing source apportionment methods. To generate maximum impact, we will synthesise these advances in the form of draft annual Annexes to National Inventory Reports (NIRs) for eight PARIS focus countries. If adopted, this will represent almost a quadrupling of the number of countries globally that include top-down emissions estimates in their NIRs.
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorologyatmospheric circulation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorologytroposphere
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
3584 CS Utrecht
Paesi Bassi