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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13941-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13941-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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23 Nov 2017
Research article |
| 23 Nov 2017
Quantifying methane emissions from natural gas production in north-eastern Pennsylvania
Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Thomas Lauvaux
Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Kenneth J. Davis
Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Aijun Deng
Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Natasha L. Miles
Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Scott J. Richardson
Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Yanni Cao
Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA 16802, USA
Colm Sweeney
NOAA/Earth Systems Research Laboratory, University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO, 80305, USA
Anna Karion
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
20899, USA
MacKenzie Smith
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
Eric A. Kort
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Stefan Schwietzke
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Thomas Murphy
Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Guido Cervone
Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA 16802, USA
Douglas Martins
FLIR Systems, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
Joannes D. Maasakkers
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Data sets
Aircraft Campaign Data over the Northeastern Marcellus Shale, May–June 2015, Version: 2017-03-29 C. Sweeney, A. Karion, E. A. Kort, M. L. Smith, T. Newberger S. Schwietzke, S. Wolter, and T. Lauvaux https://doi.org/10.15138/G35K54
Short summary
This study quantifies methane emissions from natural gas production in north-eastern Pennsylvania. Methane observations from 10 flights in spring 2015 are compared to model-projected values, and methane emissions from natural gas are adjusted within the model to create the best match between the two data sets. This study find methane emissions from natural gas production to be low and may be indicative of characteristics of the basin that make sources from north-eastern Pennsylvania unique.
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