Thanks to new generation techniques for estimating CO2 emissions it will be possible to obtain increasingly accurate environmental forecasts: the result is due to the study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters and led by the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies, which gave a also an important contribution was made by the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences of the National Research Council of Bologna.
The data that made it possible to develop these methods, in fact, also come from the Italian 'Ottavio Vittori' climate observatory of Monte Cimone, the highest peak of the northern Apennines located in the province of Modena, managed by Isac- Cnr in close collaboration with the Mountain Air Force Center of the Italian Air Force.
Researchers led by Lorna Nayagam collected data processed from 2015 to 2019 by various monitoring networks, including that of the Monte Cimone Observatory, which collects important information on greenhouse gases and is part of the European research infrastructure Icos (from Integrated Carbon Observation System).
Unlike similar previous research, the authors of the study were able to estimate CO2 emissions on a regional rather than national or continental scale.
Furthermore, the data was collected from observation networks distributed throughout the world: thanks to this integrated approach, emissions estimates are much more accurate.
“The study was possible thanks to the acquisition of measurements taken on site and the development of more precise climate models,” says Pamela Trisolino of Isac-Cnr, co-author of the study.
“The results obtained will allow us to obtain more precise estimates relating to carbon dioxide exchanges and emissions and, consequently, achieve more accurate environmental forecasts – concludes the researcher – thus contributing to providing support for climate mitigation policies”.
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