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DOI | 10.1002/2016JD026157 |
US CH4 emissions from oil and gas production: Have recent large increases been detected? | |
Bruhwiler, L. M.1; Basu, S.2; Bergamaschi, P.3; Bousquet, P.4; Dlugokencky, E.1; Houweling, S.5,6; Ishizawa, M.7; Kim, H. -S.7; Locatelli, R.4; Maksyutov, S.7; Montzka, S.1; Pandey, S.5,6; Patra, P. K.8; Petron, G.2; Saunois, M.4; Sweeney, C.2; Schwietzke, S.2; Tans, P.1; Weatherhead, E. C.2 | |
2017-04-16 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
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ISSN | 2169-897X |
EISSN | 2169-8996 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 122期号:7 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; Italy; France; Netherlands; Japan |
英文摘要 | Recent studies have proposed significant increases in CH4 emissions possibly from oil and gas (O&G) production, especially for the U.S. where O&G production has reached historically high levels over the past decade. In this study, we show that an ensemble of time-dependent atmospheric inversions constrained by calibrated atmospheric observations of surface CH4 mole fraction, with some including space-based retrievals of column average CH4 mole fractions, suggests that North American CH4 emissions have been flat over years spanning 2000 through 2012. Estimates of emission trends using zonal gradients of column average CH4 calculated relative to an upstream background are not easy to make due to atmospheric variability, relative insensitivity of column average CH4 to surface emissions at regional scales, and fast zonal synoptic transport. In addition, any trends in continental enhancements of column average CH4 are sensitive to how the upstream background is chosen, and model simulations imply that short-term (4years or less) trends in column average CH4 horizontal gradients of up to 1.5ppb/yr can occur just from interannual transport variability acting on a strong latitudinal CH4 gradient. Finally, trends in spatial gradients calculated from space-based column average CH4 can be significantly biased (>2-3ppb/yr) due to the nonuniform and seasonally varying temporal coverage of satellite retrievals. Plain Language Summary In this paper we address recent claims of significant increases in methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas production. We find that such claims are inconsistent with observations by examining atmospheric inversions and observations from the NOAA aircraft monitoring program. Furthermore, we show how atmospheric variability, sampling biases, and choice of upwind background can lead to spurious trends in atmospheric column average methane when using both in situ and space-based retrievals. |
英文关键词 | methane emissions oil and gas production |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000400172000023 |
WOS关键词 | AMERICAN METHANE EMISSIONS ; HIGH-SPATIAL-RESOLUTION ; ATMOSPHERIC METHANE ; FOSSIL-FUEL ; MODEL TM5 ; SATELLITE ; BUDGET ; SCIAMACHY ; INVERSION ; ETHANE |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/34018 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.NOAA, Earth Syst Res Lab, Boulder, CO 80305 USA; 2.Univ Colorado, Cooperat Inst Res Environm Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; 3.European Commiss, Joint Res Ctr, Ispra, Italy; 4.IPSL, CNRS, CEA, UVSQ,Lab Sci Climat & Environm, Gif Sur Yvette, France; 5.SRON Netherlands Inst Space Res, Utrecht, Netherlands; 6.Inst Marine & Atmospher Res Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 7.Natl Inst Environm Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; 8.Japan Agcy Marine Earth Sci & Technol, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bruhwiler, L. M.,Basu, S.,Bergamaschi, P.,et al. US CH4 emissions from oil and gas production: Have recent large increases been detected?[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,2017,122(7). |
APA | Bruhwiler, L. M..,Basu, S..,Bergamaschi, P..,Bousquet, P..,Dlugokencky, E..,...&Weatherhead, E. C..(2017).US CH4 emissions from oil and gas production: Have recent large increases been detected?.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES,122(7). |
MLA | Bruhwiler, L. M.,et al."US CH4 emissions from oil and gas production: Have recent large increases been detected?".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 122.7(2017). |
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