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 …

[PDF][PDF] Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions

JGJ Olivier, KM Schure, J Peters - PBL Netherlands Environmental …, 2017 - pbl.nl
In 2019, the growth in total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (excluding those from
land-use change) continued at a rate of 1.1%(±1%), reaching 52.4 gigatonnes of CO2 …

[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 …

Large fugitive methane emissions from urban centers along the US East Coast

G Plant, EA Kort, C Floerchinger… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Urban emissions remain an underexamined part of the methane budget. Here we present
and interpret aircraft observations of six old and leak‐prone major cities along the East …

Barometric-pumping controls fugitive gas emissions from a vadose zone natural gas release

ON Forde, AG Cahill, RD Beckie, KU Mayer - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Subsurface natural gas release from leaking oil and gas wells is a major environmental
concern. Gas migration can cause aquifer contamination, explosive conditions in soil gas …

Methane emissions from oil and gas platforms in the North Sea

SN Riddick, DL Mauzerall, M Celia… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Since 1850 the concentration of atmospheric methane (CH 4), a potent greenhouse gas, has
more than doubled. Recent studies suggest that emission inventories may be missing …

Quantification of methane emissions from hotspots and during COVID-19 using a global atmospheric inversion

J McNorton, N Bousserez… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4), the second most important greenhouse gas,
continue to grow. In recent years this growth rate has increased further (2020:+ 15.6 ppb) …

Lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from electricity in the province of Ontario at different temporal resolutions

L Pereira, ID Posen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we model the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of the electric grid in Ontario,
Canada, at different temporal resolutions from 2010 through 2018. We developed a …

[HTML][HTML] New contributions of measurements in Europe to the global inventory of the stable isotopic composition of methane

M Menoud, C Van Der Veen, D Lowry… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Recent climate change mitigation strategies rely on the reduction of methane (CH 4)
emissions. Carbon and hydrogen isotope ratio (δ 13 C CH 4 and δ 2 H CH 4) measurements …

Three considerations for modeling natural gas system methane emissions in life cycle assessment

EA Grubert, AR Brandt - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural gas is a fossil fuel accounting for about 30% of US primary energy consumption.
Climate change is one of the primary environmental issues associated with natural gas use …