Methane mitigation: methods to reduce emissions, on the path to the Paris agreement

EG Nisbet, RE Fisher, D Lowry, JL France… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The atmospheric methane burden is increasing rapidly, contrary to pathways compatible
with the goals of the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris …

Air quality and climate connections

AM Fiore, V Naik, EM Leibensperger - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Multiple linkages connect air quality and climate change. Many air pollutant sources also
emit carbon dioxide (CO2), the dominant anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG). The two …

Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space

Y Zhang, R Gautam, S Pandey, M Omara… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Using new satellite observations and atmospheric inverse modeling, we report methane
emissions from the Permian Basin, which is among the world's most prolific oil-producing …

Inefficient and unlit natural gas flares both emit large quantities of methane

G Plant, EA Kort, AR Brandt, Y Chen, G Fordice… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Flaring is widely used by the fossil fuel industry to dispose of natural gas. Industry and
governments generally assume that flares remain lit and destroy methane, the predominant …

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 …

Tropospheric ozone and its precursors from the urban to the global scale from air quality to short-lived climate forcer

PS Monks, AT Archibald, A Colette… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Ozone holds a certain fascination in atmospheric science. It is ubiquitous in the atmosphere,
central to tropospheric oxidation chemistry, yet harmful to human and ecosystem health as …

Satellite discovery of anomalously large methane point sources from oil/gas production

DJ Varon, J McKeever, D Jervis… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid identification of anomalous methane sources in oil/gas fields could enable corrective
action to fight climate change. The GHGSat‐D satellite instrument measuring atmospheric …

Satellite observations of atmospheric methane and their value for quantifying methane emissions

DJ Jacob, AJ Turner, JD Maasakkers… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Methane is a greenhouse gas emitted by a range of natural and anthropogenic sources.
Atmospheric methane has been measured continuously from space since 2003, and new …

 Single-blind validation of space-based point-source detection and quantification of onshore methane emissions

ED Sherwin, JS Rutherford, Y Chen, S Aminfard… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Satellites are increasingly seen as a tool for identifying large greenhouse gas point sources
for mitigation, but independent verification of satellite performance is needed for acceptance …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins

L Shen, R Gautam, M Omara… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We use satellite methane observations from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument
(TROPOMI), for May 2018 to February 2020, to quantify methane emissions from individual …