The objectives of the proposed work are to: 1) engage the user community and identify needs for policy-relevant carbon monitoring information, 2) evaluate current and planned NASA Carbon Monitoring System data products with regard to their value for decision making, and 3) explore alternative methods for visualizing and communicating carbon monitoring information and associated uncertainties to decision makers and other stakeholders.
We will establish a framework that facilitates frequent and sustained engagement of carbon policy and management stakeholders to define requirements for CMS data
products. Our team will work with the CMS science team to acquire prototype data products and help stakeholders evaluate the utility and relevance for policy planning and decision support. We will develop a Carbon Calculator and Data Portal that integrates multiple CMS products to enable those evaluation efforts. Where necessary we will explore new approaches for presenting the results of CMS data products and their uncertainties to decision-makers, again with the intent of helping to inform future CMS requirements and improve relevance of the ultimate data products.
Our team combines experts in carbon management and policy from a representative cross-section of stakeholders in the US government (including the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environment and Scientific Affairs (OES), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) with other experts working at the interface of science and policy for carbon monitoring (co-investigators from JPL, RFF, ASU, and USFS). The team will meet regularly and share information through a flexible web portal that leverages emerging tools for visualizing data.
We will apply the above process to study a range of representative policy scenarios. Examples of topics that may be explored include but are not limited to: policies and management efforts focused on: 1) Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) fluxes for the United States and/or selected developing countries (e.g., Indonesia), 2) Forest carbon stocks and disturbances for the US and/or tropical countries or sub-national projects therein, 3) methane (CH4) emissions from major shale gas basins in the US, and 4) fossil fuel CO2 and CH4 emissions from cities and industrialized states and provinces (including potential linked sub-national carbon emissions trading systems).
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Data Products:
Product Title: Carbon Mapper that integrates multiple CMS products to support evaluation and decision support.
Time Period: 1997-2011 (coverage varies by data layer)
Description: - Explore alternative methods for visualizing and communicating carbon monitoring information and associated uncertainties to decision makers and other stakeholders.
Status: Preliminary
CMS Science Theme(s): Decision Support; Global Surface-Atmosphere Flux; Land Biomass; Land-Atmosphere Flux; MRV
Keywords: Evaluation & User Interfaces
Spatial Extent: CONUS, North America and Global
Spatial Resolution: 0.1 to 500 km
Temporal Frequency: monthly to annual
Input Data Products: Saatchi-02 forest carbon stocks and fluxes; Bowman-02 CO2 fluxes; Jacob-02 CH4 fluxes; Vulcan FFCO2 fluxes
Algorithm/Models Used: various
Evaluation: review by stakeholder agencies
Intercomparison Efforts/Gaps: variety of inter comparisons between CMS data sets
Uncertainty Estimates: various (see input data sets)
Uncertainty Categories: various (see input data sets)
Relevant Policies/Programs: many (multi- and bi-lateral international agreements; domestic regulation and voluntary programs; sub-national federations; private markets)
Potential Users: U.S. State Department, US EPA, White House Council on Environmental Quality, US Forest Service, California Air Resources Board, etc
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Current Application Readiness Level: 5
Start Application Readiness Level: 3
Target Application Readiness Level: 8
Future Developments: address inconsistencies between multiple data products
Relevant Policies/Programs: many (multi- and bi-lateral international agreements; domestic regulation and voluntary programs; sub-national federations; private markets)
Potential Users: CMS science team and NASA program management; other carbon research agencies (NOAA, USDA, DOE, etc)
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Future Developments: Complete and document requirements assessment.
Limitations: Stakeholder requirements remain in flux
Date When Product Available: late 2015
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Product Title: White papers reporting results of data product evaluations.
Time Period: 2010-2100
Description: - Evaluate current and planned NASA CMS data products with regard to their value for decision making
Status: Planned
CMS Science Theme(s): Decision Support; Land Biomass; Land-Atmosphere Flux
Keywords: Evaluation & User Interfaces
Spatial Extent: Local to global
Spatial Resolution: various
Temporal Frequency: various
Input Data Products: Saatchi-02 forest carbon stocks and fluxes; Bowman-02 CO2 fluxes; Jacob-02 CH4 fluxes; Vulcan FFCO2 fluxes
Relevant Policies/Programs: many (multi- and bi-lateral international agreements; domestic regulation and voluntary programs; sub-national federations; private markets)
Potential Users: CMS science team and NASA program management; other carbon research agencies (NOAA, USDA, DOE, etc)
Stakeholders:
Current Application Readiness Level:
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Future Developments: Complete and document outcome of evaluations.
Limitations: Stakeholder requirements remain in flux
Date When Product Available: late 2015
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Product Title: Vulcan: High-Resolution Annual Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in USA, 2010-2015, Version 3
Start Date: 01/2010End Date: 01/2016 (2010-2015)
Description: The Vulcan version 3.0 annual dataset provides estimates of annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels (FF) and CO2 emissions from cement production for the conterminous United States and the State of Alaska. Referred to as FFCO2, the emissions from Vulcan are categorized into 10 source sectors including; residential, commercial, industrial, electricity production, onroad, nonroad, commercial marine vessel, airport, rail, and cement. Data are gridded annually on a 1-km grid for the years 2010 to 2015. These data are annual sums of hourly estimates. Also provided are estimates of the upper 95% confidence interval and the lower 95% confidence interval boundaries for each emission estimate. For each uncertainty level, there are 10 individual sector files and one total file. These data are designed to be used as emission estimates in atmospheric transport modeling, policy, mapping, and other data analyses and applications.
Status: Archived
CMS Science Theme(s): Land-Atmosphere Flux; MRV
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Spatial Extent: Two geographic regions: contiguous United States and the State of Alaska
Archived Data Citation: Gurney, K.R., J. Liang, R. Patarasuk, Y. Song, J. Huang, and G. Roest. 2019. Vulcan: High-Resolution Annual Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in USA, 2010-2015, Version 3. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. DOI: 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1741
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Product Title: Vulcan: High-Resolution Hourly Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in USA, 2010-2015, Version 3
Start Date: 01/2010End Date: 01/2016 (2010-2015)
Description: The Vulcan version 3.0 hourly dataset quantifies hourly emissions at a 1-km resolution for the 2010-2015 time period. Estimates are provided of hourly carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels (FF) and CO2 emissions from cement production for the conterminous United States and the state of Alaska. Referred to as FFCO2, the emissions from Vulcan are categorized into 10 source sectors including; residential, commercial, industrial, electricity production, onroad, nonroad, commercial marine vessel, airport, rail, and cement. Files for hourly total emissions are also available. Data are represented in space on a 1 km x 1 km grid as hourly totals for 2010-2015. This dataset provides the first bottom-up U.S.-wide FFCO2 emissions data product at 1 km2/hourly for multiple years and is designed to be used as emission estimates in atmospheric transport modeling, policy, mapping, and other data analyses and applications.
Status: Archived
CMS Science Theme(s): Land-Atmosphere Flux; MRV
Keywords:
Spatial Extent: Two geographic regions: contiguous United States and the State of Alaska
Archived Data Citation: Gurney, K.R., J. Liang, R. Patarasuk, Y. Song, J. Huang, and G. Roest. 2020. Vulcan: High-Resolution Hourly Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in USA, 2010-2015, Version 3. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. DOI: 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1810
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West Longitude:
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East Longitude:
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North Latitude:
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Publications:
Blackman, A., Veit, P. 2018. Titled Amazon Indigenous Communities Cut Forest Carbon Emissions. Ecological Economics. 153, 56-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.06.016
Gurney, K. R., Liang, J., Patarasuk, R., Song, Y., Huang, J., Roest, G. 2020. The Vulcan Version 3.0 High-Resolution Fossil Fuel CO
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Emissions for the United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 125(19). DOI: 10.1029/2020JD032974
Gurney, K. R., Patarasuk, R., Liang, J., Song, Y., O'Keeffe, D., Rao, P., Whetstone, J. R., Duren, R. M., Eldering, A., Miller, C. 2019. The Hestia fossil fuel CO<sub>2</sub> emissions data product for the Los Angeles megacity (Hestia-LA). Earth System Science Data. 11(3), 1309-1335. DOI: 10.5194/essd-11-1309-2019
Cooke, R. M., Saatchi, S., Hagen, S. 2016. Global correlation and uncertainty accounting. Dependence Modeling. 4(1). DOI: 10.1515/demo-2016-0009
Archived Data Citations:
Gurney, K.R., J. Liang, R. Patarasuk, Y. Song, J. Huang, and G. Roest. 2019. Vulcan: High-Resolution Annual Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in USA, 2010-2015, Version 3. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. DOI: 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1741
Gurney, K.R., J. Liang, R. Patarasuk, Y. Song, J. Huang, and G. Roest. 2020. Vulcan: High-Resolution Hourly Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in USA, 2010-2015, Version 3. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. DOI: 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1810