Primary Convener:
Minde An, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Convener:
Mark England, University of California Irvine
Youmi Oh, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
Yangyang Xu, Texas A&M University

Early Career Convener:
Luke Western, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair:
Minde An, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark England, Columbia University of New York

Global environmental challenges are progressively being mitigated through international collaboration, exemplified by treaties and agreements. Accurately estimating emissions of critical substances—such as methane or synthetic ozone-depleting substances—and modelling their impact on the Earth system provides a scientific basis for international regulatory policymaking and compliance negotiations. This session invites contributions addressing: (1) quantification and verification of anthropogenic emissions from various sources, including direct fugitive emissions, production- and feedstock-related processes, banked emissions, and emissions from on-site “super-emitters”; (2) exploring the role of these emissions in the Earth system using climate model simulations; (3) advances in reconciling discrepancies between “top-down”, observation-based emission assessments and “bottom-up”, process-based inventories, including enhanced monitoring (e.g., measurements in under-reported or under-sampled regions), improvements in inventory compilation through region-specific data, and activities related to measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification (MMRV); and (4) implications for control strategies and international compliance informed by these emission studies.

Index Terms
0322 Constituent sources and sinks
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry
1610 Atmosphere
1622 Earth system modeling

Suggested Itineraries:
National Climate Assessment
Climate Change and Global Policy
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
GC - Global Environmental Change