Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1259-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1259-2015
Development and technical paper
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29 Apr 2015
Development and technical paper |  | 29 Apr 2015

A sparse reconstruction method for the estimation of multi-resolution emission fields via atmospheric inversion

J. Ray, J. Lee, V. Yadav, S. Lefantzi, A. M. Michalak, and B. van Bloemen Waanders

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The paper presents a statistical method (shrinkage) that can be used to estimate rough emission fields, e.g., fossil fuel CO2 emissions, from measurements of concentrations. This method is demonstrated in a test case where the emissions are modeled using wavelets. We find that the method can eliminate unnecessary complexity from the wavelet model, ensures non-negativity of the emissions, is computationally efficient and is, by construction, insensitive to prior guesses of the total emission.
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