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Dear Dr. Arvind,

Thanks for sharing the useful information.

With best regards,

Madhavan

It is possible just like the satellite data gathered from the missions from a volcano and other earth erruptions. However, the data collected could have many sources of uncertainty.

Hope this helps answer your question.

Professor Yehia Khalil

Yale University

USA

Source apportionment methods exist for carbon (soot) and other atmospheric emissions. They are computationally complicated but advances in inverse methods are documented in the literature. Pull references by Daven Henze to obtain a good sense of what the state-of-the-art is.