Advancing scientific understanding of the global methane budget in support of the Paris Agreement

AL Ganesan, S Schwietzke, B Poulter… - Global …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2015 Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change aims to keep global average temperature increases well below 2° C of …

Interpreting contemporary trends in atmospheric methane

AJ Turner, C Frankenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Atmospheric methane plays a major role in controlling climate, yet contemporary methane
trends (1982–2017) have defied explanation with numerous, often conflicting, hypotheses …

Ambiguity in the causes for decadal trends in atmospheric methane and hydroxyl

AJ Turner, C Frankenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Methane is the second strongest anthropogenic greenhouse gas and its atmospheric
burden has more than doubled since 1850. Methane concentrations stabilized in the early …

On the causes and consequences of recent trends in atmospheric methane

H Schaefer - Current Climate Change Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To investigate which processes cause the current increase in
atmospheric methane in the context of future interactions between climate change, the …

Global inventory of gas geochemistry data from fossil fuel, microbial and burning sources, version 2017

OA Sherwood, S Schwietzke, VA Arling… - Earth System Science …, 2017 - essd.copernicus.org
The concentration of atmospheric methane (CH 4) has more than doubled over the industrial
era. To help constrain global and regional CH 4 budgets, inverse (top-down) models …

Quantifying atmospheric methane emissions from the Haynesville, Fayetteville, and northeastern Marcellus shale gas production regions

J Peischl, TB Ryerson, KC Aikin… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present measurements of methane (CH4) taken aboard a NOAA WP‐3D research
aircraft in 2013 over the Haynesville shale region in eastern Texas/northwestern Louisiana …

Quantifying methane and ethane emissions to the atmosphere from central and western US oil and natural gas production regions

J Peischl, SJ Eilerman, JA Neuman… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present atmospheric measurements of methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6) taken aboard
a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration WP‐3D research aircraft in 2015 over …

Are optical gas imaging technologies effective for methane leak detection?

AP Ravikumar, J Wang, AR Brandt - Environmental science & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Concerns over mitigating methane leakage from the natural gas system have become ever
more prominent in recent years. Recently, the US Environmental Protection Agency …

[HTML][HTML] Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000–2012

M Saunois, P Bousquet, B Poulter… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Following the recent Global Carbon Project (GCP) synthesis of the decadal methane (CH 4)
budget over 2000–2012 (Saunois et al., 2016), we analyse here the same dataset with a …

Methane, black carbon, and ethane emissions from natural gas flares in the Bakken Shale, North Dakota

A Gvakharia, EA Kort, A Brandt, J Peischl… - Environmental …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Incomplete combustion during flaring can lead to production of black carbon (BC) and loss
of methane and other pollutants to the atmosphere, impacting climate and air quality …