Observations, Simulations, and Inventories of Carbon Sinks, Sources, and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GHG monitoring; simulations; CO2 removal
Interests: atmospheric physics; atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric environment; atmospheric sounding; climate and environment effects
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We propose a Special Issue entitled “Observations, Simulations, and Inventories of Carbon Sinks, Sources, and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)”. The aim and scope of this Special Issue are to promote understanding of carbon sources and sinks at various scales to help achieve carbon-neutral goals around the world. Through observations (ground-based, air-based, satellite-based, etc.), simulations (both forward simulations and inversions), and inventories (using both traditional IPCC methodology and extended near-real-time inventories), useful information can be obtained for policy-makers, combining bottom-up and top-down methods; both consistency and inconsistency are important for the objective recognition of carbon budgets across different scales (global, continental, regional, country-level, provincial, city-level, county, industrial parks, etc.). Moreover, to achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, large amounts of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) are needed, including ~10 GtCO2/yr for the 1.5 ℃ target; however, CDR technologies still encounter significant challenges in efficiency, economics, and scaling. Therefore, we encourage contributions to this Special Issue to outline more information in this field, as well as novel CDR technologies.
Dr. Pengfei Han
Dr. Bin Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- greenhouse gases
- emission sources
- carbon sinks
- observations
- simulations
- carbon dioxide removal
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