Methane emissions from the Munich Oktoberfest

Chen, Jia; Dietrich, Florian; Maazallahi, Hossein; Forstmaier, Andreas; Winkler, Dominik; Hofmann, Magdalena E. G.; Denier van der Gon, Hugo; Röckmann, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3683-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3683-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3683-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

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27 Mar 2020

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| 27 Mar 2020

Methane emissions from the Munich Oktoberfest

Jia Chen, Florian Dietrich, Hossein Maazallahi, Andreas Forstmaier, Dominik Winkler, Magdalena E. G. Hofmann, Hugo Denier van der Gon, and Thomas Röckmann

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of ACP-2019-709 Methane Emissions from the Munich Oktoberfest', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Jia Chen, 15 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Comments on Chen et al: Methane emissions from the Munich Oktoberfest', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Jia Chen, 15 Jan 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jia Chen on behalf of the Authors (15 Jan 2020) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Jan 2020) by Rolf Müller

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (24 Jan 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (03 Feb 2020)

ED: Publish as is (05 Feb 2020) by Rolf Müller

AR by Jia Chen on behalf of the Authors (15 Feb 2020) Manuscript

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AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval

AA by Jia Chen on behalf of the Authors (24 Mar 2020) Author's adjustment Manuscript

EA: Adjustments approved (25 Mar 2020) by Rolf Müller

Short summary

We demonstrate for the first time that large festivals can be significant methane sources, though they are not included in emission inventories. We combined in situ measurements with a Gaussian plume model to determine the Oktoberfest emissions and show that they are not due solely to human biogenic emissions, but are instead primarily fossil fuel related. Our study provides the foundation to develop reduction policies for such events and new pathways to mitigate fossil fuel methane emissions.