Verifying greenhouse gas emissions : methods to support international climate agreements / Committee on Methods for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2010], ©2010.

xiv, 110 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm

Introduction -- National inventories of greenhouse gase emissions -- Measuring fluxes from land-use sources and sinks -- Emissions estimated from atmospheric and oceanic measurements -- Appendix A: UNFCCC inventories of industrial processes and waste -- Appendix B: Estimates of signals created in the atmosphere by emissions -- Appendix C: Current sources of atmospheric and oceanic greenhouse gas data -- Appendix D: Technologies for measuring emissions by large local sources -- Appendix E: biographical sketches of committee members -- Appendix F: Acronyms and abbreviations.

Includes bibliographical references.