Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane

DJ Jacob, DJ Varon, DH Cusworth… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We review the capability of current and scheduled satellite observations of atmospheric
methane in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) to quantify methane emissions from the global …

Methane emissions from China: a high-resolution inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations

Z Chen, DJ Jacob, H Nesser… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We quantify methane emissions in China and the contributions from different sectors by
inverse analysis of 2019 TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane. The …

Global observational coverage of onshore oil and gas methane sources with TROPOMI

M Gao, Z Xing, C Vollrath, CH Hugenholtz… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Satellite observations have been used to measure methane (CH4) emissions from the oil
and gas (O&G) industry, particularly by revealing previously undocumented, very large …

Continuous weekly monitoring of methane emissions from the Permian Basin by inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations

DJ Varon, DJ Jacob, B Hmiel, R Gautam… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We quantify weekly methane emissions at 0.25°× 0.3125°(≈ 25× 25 km2) resolution from
the Permian Basin, the largest oil production basin in the United States, by inverse analysis …

Urban methane emission monitoring across North America using TROPOMI data: an analytical inversion approach

M Hemati, M Mahdianpari, R Nassar, H Shiri… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Monitoring methane emissions is crucial in mitigating climate change as it has a relatively
short atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years and a significant radiative forcing impact. To …

[HTML][HTML] Data driven analysis of atmospheric methane concentrations as function of geographic, land cover type and season

C Karoff, AL Vara-Vela - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Over the last decade we have witnessed a rapid, so far unexplained, increase in the
emission of methane to the atmosphere and this increase could lead to an acceleration of …

Assessing methane emissions from collapsing Venezuelan oil production using TROPOMI

B Nathan, JD Maasakkers, S Naus… - …, 2023 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Venezuela has long been identified as an area with large methane emissions, especially in
the Lake Maracaibo region with intensive oil exploitation, but production has strongly …

RICHARD 1.0–Routine for the Isolation of Chemical Hotspots in Atmospheric Research Data

C Scharun, R Ruhnke… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
Here, we introduce version 1.0 of the RICHARD algorithm, a Routine for the Isolation of
Chemical Hotspots in Atmospheric Research Data, eg in satellite measurement datasets …

Source Localization and Bayesian leak magnitude inference of sparse wireless sensor data to detect fugitive methane leak

S Nageswaran, R Muralidhar… - … Conference on Big …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Source localization and emission strength quantification is an ongoing challenge for
distributed pollution sources. Here we outline a wireless sensor approach to localize all …

Global observational coverage of oil and gas methane sources with TROPOMI

M Gao, Z Xing, C Vollrath, CH Hugenholtz, TE Barchyn - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Satellite observations have been widely used to measure methane (CH 4) emissions from
the oil and gas (O&G) industry, particularly by revealing previously undocumented, very …