List of works - Colm Sweeney

A Climate-scale Satellite Record for Carbon Monoxide: The MOPITT Version 7 Product

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A Cost-Effective Trace Gas Measurement Program for Long-Term Monitoring of the Stratospheric Circulation

A climate-scale satellite record for carbon monoxide: the MOPITT Version 7 product

article

A direct carbon budgeting approach to infer carbon sources and sinks. Design and synthetic application to complement the NACP observation network

article

A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

article by Dorothee C. E. Bakker et al published 25 May 2016 in Earth system science data discussions

A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane cycles in northern wetlands

article

A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane emissions in northern wetlands

article

A multi-year estimate of methane fluxes in Alaska from CARVE atmospheric observations

scientific article

A new look at methane and nonmethane hydrocarbon emissions from oil and natural gas operations in the Colorado Denver-Julesburg Basin

article

Accelerating rates of Arctic carbon cycling revealed by long-term atmospheric CO2 measurements.

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Advances in quantifying air-sea gas exchange and environmental forcing

scientific article published on January 2009

AirCore-HR: a high-resolution column sampling to enhance the vertical description of CH4 and CO2

Airborne DOAS retrievals of methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor concentrations at high spatial resolution: application to AVIRIS-NG

scholarly article by Andrew K. Thorpe et al published 19 October 2017 in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Airborne DOAS retrievals of methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor concentrations at high spatial resolution: application to AVIRIS-NG

Airborne Ethane Observations in the Barnett Shale: Quantification of Ethane Flux and Attribution of Methane Emissions

scientific article published in July 2015

Airborne Quantification of Methane Emissions over the Four Corners Region.

scientific article published on 18 April 2017

Airborne methane remote measurements reveal heavy-tail flux distribution in Four Corners region

scientific article

Aircraft-Based Estimate of Total Methane Emissions from the Barnett Shale Region

scientific article published on July 2015

Aircraft-Based Measurements of Point Source Methane Emissions in the Barnett Shale Basin

scientific article

Aircraft-based measurements of the carbon footprint of Indianapolis

scientific article

An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker

scientific article (publication date: 27 November 2007)

An improved estimate for the δ13C and δ18O signatures of carbon monoxide produced from atmospheric oxidation of volatile organic compounds

scholarly article

Anthropogenic and biogenic CO fluxes in the Boston urban region

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States

scientific article (publication date: 10 December 2013)

Application of Gauss's theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases

scholarly article by Stephen Conley et al published 13 September 2017 in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Assessment of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic trace gas emissions from airborne measurements over Sacramento, California in spring 2009

scholarly article

Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

scientific article published in Science

Assessment of uncertainties of an aircraft-based mass balance approach for quantifying urban greenhouse gas emissions

scholarly article

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Variability in the Community Earth System Model: Evaluation and Transient Dynamics during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

scientific article published in July 2013

Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America (ACT‐America) Data Sets: Description, Management, and Delivery

scientific article published in 2021

Atmospheric constraints on 2004 emissions of methane and nitrous oxide in North America from atmospheric measurements and a receptor-oriented modeling framework

article

Background error covariance estimation for atmospheric CO2data assimilation

scholarly article

Bias corrections of GOSAT SWIR XCO2 and XCH4 with TCCON data and their evaluation using aircraft measurement data

article

Biogeochemical regimes, net community production and carbon export in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

article

Black Carbon Emissions from the Bakken Oil and Gas Development Region

article

Bootstrap inversion technique for atmospheric trace gas source detection and quantification using long open-path laser measurements

scholarly article by Caroline B. Alden et al published 22 March 2018 in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Boreal forest fire CO and CH4 emission factors derived from tower observations in Alaska during the extreme fire season of 2015

scientific article published in 2021

COS-derived GPP relationships with temperature and light help explain high-latitude atmospheric CO seasonal cycle amplification

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

CTDAS-Lagrange v1.0: a high-resolution data assimilation system for regional carbon dioxide observations

scientific article published in 2018

Calibration and field testing of cavity ring-down laser spectrometers measuring CH4, CO2, and δ13CH4 deployed on towers in the Marcellus S

scientific article

Carbon Monitoring System Flux Net Biosphere Exchange 2020 (CMS-Flux NBE 2020)

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter respiration from Arctic tundra.

scientific article published on 08 May 2017

CarbonTracker-CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;: an assimilation system for estimating emissions of atmospheric methane

scientific article published in 2014

Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global oceans

article by Taro Takahashi et al published April 2009 in Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget

scientific article

Considerable contribution of the Montreal Protocol to declining greenhouse gas emissions from the United States

scholarly article by Lei Hu et al published 14 August 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Constraining global air-sea gas exchange for CO2 with recent bomb 14C measurements ⬇️

journal article from 'Global Biogeochemical Cycles' published in 2007

Continued emissions of carbon tetrachloride from the United States nearly two decades after its phaseout for dispersive uses

scientific article

Corrigendum to “Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global oceans” [Deep Sea Res. II 56 (2009) 554–577]

scholarly article published in Deep-Sea Research. Part 1: Oceanographic Research Papers

Demonstration of an ethane spectrometer for methane source identification

scientific article

Demonstration of high-precision continuous measurements of water vapor isotopologues in laboratory and remote field deployments using wavelength-scanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy (WS-CRDS) technology

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Detecting regional patterns of changing CO2 flux in Alaska

scientific article

Drake Passage OceanicpCO2: Evaluating CMIP5 Coupled Carbon–Climate Models Using in situ Observations

article published in 2014

Drivers and Environmental Responses to the Changing Annual Snow Cycle of Northern Alaska

article

Effect of calcium carbonate saturation state on the calcification rate of an experimental coral reef

article

Enhanced North American carbon uptake associated with El Niño

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO 2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960 ⬇️

scientific article published on August 8, 2013

Estimating US fossil fuel CO2 emissions from measurements of 14C in atmospheric CO2

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Estimating regional-scale methane flux and budgets using CARVE aircraft measurements over Alaska

scholarly article

Evaluating Northern Hemisphere Growing Season Net Carbon Flux in Climate Models Using Aircraft Observations

scientific article published in 2023

Evaluation of single-footprint AIRS CH4 profile retrieval uncertainties using aircraft profile measurements

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Evaluation of wetland methane emissions across North America using atmospheric data and inverse modeling

article by Scot M. Miller et al published 2 March 2016 in Biogeosciences

Global Carbon Budget 2021

scientific article published on 26 April 2022

Global Carbon Budget 2022

scientific article published in 2022

Global Carbon Budget 2023

scientific article published on 5 December 2023

Global sea–air CO2 flux based on climatological surface ocean pCO2, and seasonal biological and temperature effects

article by Taro Takahashi et al published January 2002 in Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography

High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin

scientific article published on October 2014

High-resolution atmospheric inversion of urban CO2 emissions during the dormant season of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX)

scientific article published on 07 April 2016

Hydrocarbon emissions characterization in the Colorado Front Range: A pilot study

article

Impact of stratospheric air and surface emissions on tropospheric nitrous oxide during ATom

scientific article published on 22 July 2021

Improving stratospheric transport trend analysis based on SF6and CO2measurements

article

Inter-comparison of Atmospheric Trace Gas Dispersion Models: Barnett Shale Case Study

Intercomparison of atmospheric trace gas dispersion models: Barnett Shale case study

scholarly article

Inverse modeling of pan-Arctic methane emissions at high spatial resolution: what can we learn from assimilating satellite retrievals and using different process-based wetland and lake biogeochemical models?

scholarly article

Investigating Alaskan methane and carbon dioxide fluxes using measurements from the CARVE tower

scholarly article

Large Fugitive Methane Emissions From Urban Centers Along the U.S. East Coast

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Linking emissions of fossil fuel CO2 and other anthropogenic trace gases using atmospheric 14CO2

article

Long-term ozone trends at rural ozone monitoring sites across the United States, 1990-2010

scholarly article

Lower-tropospheric CO2 from near-infrared ACOS-GOSAT observations

scholarly article

Lower-tropospheric CO2 from near-infrared ACOS-GOSAT observations

Mapping hydroxyl variability throughout the global remote troposphere via synthesis of airborne and satellite formaldehyde observations

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Methane emissions estimate from airborne measurements over a western United States natural gas field

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Methane emissions from Alaska in 2012 from CARVE airborne observations

scientific article

Methane, Black Carbon, and Ethane Emissions from Natural Gas Flares in the Bakken Shale, North Dakota.

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Mid-upper tropospheric methane in the high Northern Hemisphere: Spaceborne observations by AIRS, aircraft measurements, and model simulations

scientific article published on 9 October 2010

Nitrous Oxide Emissions Estimated With the CarbonTracker‐Lagrange North American Regional Inversion Framework

scientific article published in 2018

Nutrient and carbon removal ratios and fluxes in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

article

Peak growing season gross uptake of carbon in North America is largest in the Midwest USA

Quantifying Northern High Latitude Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) Using Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS)

scientific article published in 2022

Recent evidence for a strengthening CO2 sink in the Southern Ocean from carbonate system measurements in the Drake Passage (2002-2015)

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Reconciling divergent estimates of oil and gas methane emissions

scientific article

Regional US carbon sinks from three-dimensional atmospheric CO2 sampling

scientific article (publication date: 26 October 2010)

Regional trace-gas source attribution using a field-deployed dual frequency comb spectrometer

Seasonal climatology of CO2across North America from aircraft measurements in the NOAA/ESRL Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network

Seasonal forcing of summer dissolved inorganic carbon and chlorophyllaon the western shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula

scholarly article

Sensitivity of Methane Emissions to Later Soil Freezing in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems

scientific article published in 2019

Siberian and temperate ecosystems shape Northern Hemisphere atmospheric CO2 seasonal amplification

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Source Partitioning of Methane Emissions and its Seasonality in the U.S. Midwest

article published in 2018

Stable isotope measurements confirm volatile organic compound oxidation as a major urban summertime source of carbon monoxide in Indianapolis, USA

Strong Southern Ocean carbon uptake evident in airborne observations

scientific article published on 3 December 2021

Surrogate gas prediction model as a proxy for Δ14C-based measurements of fossil fuel-CO2.

scientific article published on June 2016

Synthesis of Urban CO2 Emission Estimates from Multiple Methods from the Indianapolis Flux Project (INFLUX)

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

The Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX): A test-bed for developing urban greenhouse gas emission measurements

scientific article published on 01 January 2017

The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere

scientific article published in March 2022

The O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean Study

The reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean carbon sink

scientific article

The seasonal cycle amplitude of total column CO2: Factors behind the model-observation mismatch

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Three-dimensional methane distribution simulated with FLEXPART 8-CTM-1.1 constrained with observation data

article by Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink et al published 8 November 2018 in Geoscientific Model Development

Three-dimensional methane distribution simulated with FLEXPART 8-CTM-1.1 constrained with observation data

article by Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink et al published 14 June 2018 in Geoscientific model development discussions (GMDD)

Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2014)

Toward quantification and source sector identification of fossil fuel CO2emissions from an urban area: Results from the INFLUX experiment

article

TransCom model simulations of methane: Comparison of vertical profiles with aircraft measurements ⬇️

scientific article

U.S. emissions of HFC-134a derived for 2008-2012 from an extensive flask-air sampling network

scholarly article

Using atmospheric observations to quantify annual biogenic carbon dioxide fluxes on the Alaska North Slope

scientific article published in 2022

Using atmospheric trace gas vertical profiles to evaluate model fluxes: a case study of Arctic-CAP observations and GEOS simulations for the ABoVE domain

scientific article published in 2022

Using portable low-resolution spectrometers to evaluate Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) biases in North America

scientific article published in 2023

Utilizing the Drake Passage Time-series to understand variability and change in subpolar Southern Ocean pCO2

scholarly article

Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2.

scientific article

List of works by Colm Sweeney

A Climate-scale Satellite Record for Carbon Monoxide: The MOPITT Version 7 Product

A Cost-Effective Trace Gas Measurement Program for Long-Term Monitoring of the Stratospheric Circulation

A climate-scale satellite record for carbon monoxide: the MOPITT Version 7 product

A direct carbon budgeting approach to infer carbon sources and sinks. Design and synthetic application to complement the NACP observation network

A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane cycles in northern wetlands

A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane emissions in northern wetlands

A multi-year estimate of methane fluxes in Alaska from CARVE atmospheric observations

A new look at methane and nonmethane hydrocarbon emissions from oil and natural gas operations in the Colorado Denver-Julesburg Basin

Accelerating rates of Arctic carbon cycling revealed by long-term atmospheric CO2 measurements.

Advances in quantifying air-sea gas exchange and environmental forcing

AirCore-HR: a high-resolution column sampling to enhance the vertical description of CH<sub>4</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub>

Airborne DOAS retrievals of methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor concentrations at high spatial resolution: application to AVIRIS-NG

Airborne DOAS retrievals of methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor concentrations at high spatial resolution: application to AVIRIS-NG

Airborne Ethane Observations in the Barnett Shale: Quantification of Ethane Flux and Attribution of Methane Emissions

Airborne Quantification of Methane Emissions over the Four Corners Region.

Airborne methane remote measurements reveal heavy-tail flux distribution in Four Corners region

Aircraft-Based Estimate of Total Methane Emissions from the Barnett Shale Region

Aircraft-Based Measurements of Point Source Methane Emissions in the Barnett Shale Basin

Aircraft-based measurements of the carbon footprint of Indianapolis

An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker

An improved estimate for the δ13C and δ18O signatures of carbon monoxide produced from atmospheric oxidation of volatile organic compounds

Anthropogenic and biogenic CO fluxes in the Boston urban region

Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States

Application of Gauss's theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases

Assessment of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic trace gas emissions from airborne measurements over Sacramento, California in spring 2009

Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

Assessment of uncertainties of an aircraft-based mass balance approach for quantifying urban greenhouse gas emissions

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Variability in the Community Earth System Model: Evaluation and Transient Dynamics during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America (ACT‐America) Data Sets: Description, Management, and Delivery

Atmospheric constraints on 2004 emissions of methane and nitrous oxide in North America from atmospheric measurements and a receptor-oriented modeling framework

Background error covariance estimation for atmospheric CO2data assimilation

Bias corrections of GOSAT SWIR XCO<sub>2</sub> and XCH<sub>4</sub> with TCCON data and their evaluation using aircraft measurement data

Biogeochemical regimes, net community production and carbon export in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Black Carbon Emissions from the Bakken Oil and Gas Development Region

Bootstrap inversion technique for atmospheric trace gas source detection and quantification using long open-path laser measurements

Boreal forest fire CO and CH<sub>4</sub> emission factors derived from tower observations in Alaska during the extreme fire season of 2015

COS-derived GPP relationships with temperature and light help explain high-latitude atmospheric CO seasonal cycle amplification

CTDAS-Lagrange v1.0: a high-resolution data assimilation system for regional carbon dioxide observations

Calibration and field testing of cavity ring-down laser spectrometers measuring CH<sub>4</sub>, CO<sub>2</sub>, and <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>CH<sub>4</sub> deployed on towers in the Marcellus S

Carbon Monitoring System Flux Net Biosphere Exchange 2020 (CMS-Flux NBE 2020)

Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter respiration from Arctic tundra.

CarbonTracker-CH&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;4&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;: an assimilation system for estimating emissions of atmospheric methane

Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global oceans

Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget

Considerable contribution of the Montreal Protocol to declining greenhouse gas emissions from the United States

Constraining global air-sea gas exchange for CO2 with recent bomb 14C measurements ⬇️

Continued emissions of carbon tetrachloride from the United States nearly two decades after its phaseout for dispersive uses

Corrigendum to “Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global oceans” [Deep Sea Res. II 56 (2009) 554–577]

Demonstration of an ethane spectrometer for methane source identification

Demonstration of high-precision continuous measurements of water vapor isotopologues in laboratory and remote field deployments using wavelength-scanned cavity ring-down spectroscopy (WS-CRDS) technology

Detecting regional patterns of changing CO2 flux in Alaska

Drake Passage OceanicpCO2: Evaluating CMIP5 Coupled Carbon–Climate Models Using in situ Observations

Drivers and Environmental Responses to the Changing Annual Snow Cycle of Northern Alaska

Effect of calcium carbonate saturation state on the calcification rate of an experimental coral reef

Enhanced North American carbon uptake associated with El Niño

Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO 2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960 ⬇️

Estimating US fossil fuel CO2 emissions from measurements of 14C in atmospheric CO2

Estimating regional-scale methane flux and budgets using CARVE aircraft measurements over Alaska

Evaluating Northern Hemisphere Growing Season Net Carbon Flux in Climate Models Using Aircraft Observations

Evaluation of single-footprint AIRS CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; profile retrieval uncertainties using aircraft profile measurements

Evaluation of single-footprint AIRS CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; profile retrieval uncertainties using aircraft profile measurements

Evaluation of wetland methane emissions across North America using atmospheric data and inverse modeling

Global Carbon Budget 2021

Global Carbon Budget 2022

Global Carbon Budget 2023

Global sea–air CO2 flux based on climatological surface ocean pCO2, and seasonal biological and temperature effects

High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin

High-resolution atmospheric inversion of urban CO2 emissions during the dormant season of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX)

Hydrocarbon emissions characterization in the Colorado Front Range: A pilot study

Impact of stratospheric air and surface emissions on tropospheric nitrous oxide during ATom

Improving stratospheric transport trend analysis based on SF6and CO2measurements

Inter-comparison of Atmospheric Trace Gas Dispersion Models: Barnett Shale Case Study

Intercomparison of atmospheric trace gas dispersion models: Barnett Shale case study

Inverse modeling of pan-Arctic methane emissions at high spatial resolution: what can we learn from assimilating satellite retrievals and using different process-based wetland and lake biogeochemical models?

Investigating Alaskan methane and carbon dioxide fluxes using measurements from the CARVE tower

Large Fugitive Methane Emissions From Urban Centers Along the U.S. East Coast

Linking emissions of fossil fuel CO2 and other anthropogenic trace gases using atmospheric 14CO2

CarbonTracker-CH<sub>4</sub>: an assimilation system for estimating emissions of atmospheric methane

Evaluation of single-footprint AIRS CH<sub>4</sub> profile retrieval uncertainties using aircraft profile measurements

Evaluation of single-footprint AIRS CH<sub>4</sub> profile retrieval uncertainties using aircraft profile measurements