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Title:An Improved Nightlight-based Method for Modeling Urban CO2 Emissions

Journal/PublisherEnvironmental Modelling & Software

Year:2018

Authors:Ji Han, Xing Meng, Hanwei Liang, Zhi Cao, Liang Dong, Cheng Huang

Abstract

An accurate modeling of urban CO2 emissions is important for understanding the dynamics of carbon cycle and for designing low-carbon policies. We develop an improved nightlight-based method to model urban CO2 emissions and investigate their spatiotemporal patterns. Differing from the previous methods, in processing the pre-modeling data, we bring forward the existing CO2 inventories from national and provincial levels to city level, and correct the saturation and blooming problems of nightlight. In modeling the correlation between nightlight and statistically accounted CO2 emissions, we highlight a panel-data regression analysis that considers the spatiotemporal heterogeneityacross citiesand over time simultaneously. Eleven cities in Yangtze River Delta of China were selected foracase  study testing our method.The internal and external validations have proven the predominance of our proposed method for capturing the nightlight-CO2 correlation, and for describing the spatial distribution and heterogeneity of urban CO2 emissions.

Keywords: Urban CO2 emissions, Nighttime light, Panel-data regression, Yangtze river delta

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