China’s city-level carbon emissions during 1992–2017 based on the inter-calibration of nighttime light data

Abstract Accurate, long-term, full-coverage carbon dioxide (CO2) data in units of prefecture-level cities are necessary for evaluations of CO2 emission reductions in China, which has become one of the world’s largest carbon-emitting countries. This study develops a novel method to match satellite-ba...

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Main Authors: Jiandong Chen, Ming Gao, Shulei Cheng, Xin Liu, Wenxuan Hou, Malin Song, Ding Li, Wei Fan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81754-y