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 …

Atmospheric remote sensing for anthropogenic methane emissions: Applications and research opportunities

S Zhang, J Ma, X Zhang, C Guo - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas (GHG) only after carbon dioxide.
Human activities substantially increase the atmospheric methane concentration globally, but …

Majority of US urban natural gas emissions unaccounted for in inventories

MR Sargent, C Floerchinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Across many cities, estimates of methane emissions from natural gas (NG) distribution and
end use based on atmospheric measurements have generally been more than double …

Composition, emissions, and air quality impacts of hazardous air pollutants in unburned natural gas from residential stoves in California

ED Lebel, DR Michanowicz, KR Bilsback… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
The presence of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) entrained in end-use natural gas (NG) is
an understudied source of human health risks. We performed trace gas analyses on 185 …

Evaluating urban methane emissions from space using TROPOMI methane and carbon monoxide observations

G Plant, EA Kort, LT Murray, JD Maasakkers… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic methane emissions from urban centers are important and addressable, yet
remain poorly characterized, and the representativeness of studies from individual cities is …

Investigating high methane emissions from urban areas detected by TROPOMI and their association with untreated wastewater

B de Foy, JJ Schauer, A Lorente… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Even though methane concentrations have contributed an estimated 23% of climate forcing,
part of the recent increases in the global methane background concentrations remain …

Decadal decrease in Los Angeles methane emissions is much smaller than bottom-up estimates

ZC Zeng, T Pongetti, S Newman, T Oda… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has a short atmospheric lifetime (~ 12 years), so that
emissions reductions will have a rapid impact on climate forcing. In megacities such as Los …

Methane emissions show recent decline but strong seasonality in two US Northeastern cities

A Karion, S Ghosh, I Lopez-Coto… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Urban methane emissions estimated using atmospheric observations have been found to
exceed estimates derived by using traditional inventory methods in several northeastern US …

Nitrogen oxide emissions from US oil and gas production: Recent trends and source attribution

B Dix, J de Bruin, E Roosenbrand… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
US oil and natural gas production volumes have grown by up to 100% in key production
areas between January 2017 and August 2019. Here we show that recent trends are visible …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement report: Long-range transport patterns into the tropical northwest Pacific during the CAMPEx aircraft campaign: chemical composition, size …

MRA Hilario, E Crosbie, M Shook… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Abstract The tropical Northwest Pacific (TNWP) is a receptor for pollution sources throughout
Asia and is highly susceptible to climate change, making it imperative to understand long …