Weston Roundtable Series
Paul B. Shepson

Purdue University, Department of Chemistry

INFLUX: Moving Toward the Ability to Conduct Regional and Global Scale Accounting of Greenhouse Gases

1106 Mechanical Engineering, February 9, 2012, 4:00 PM

Abstract

To understand the global carbon cycle requires knowledge of source strengths, and geographic and temporal variability of emissions. Moreover, international carbon management treaties demand reliable tools to verify compliance. Thus we need the ability to measure urban area-wide fluxes of carbon cycle gases. To do this we created the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX). I will present preliminary results of the INFLUX project for both CO2 and CH4, focusing on efforts to apportion the emissions to individual sectors.