A015
International Measurements of Methane Emissions from the Fossil Fuel Industries I eLightning

Monday, 7 December 2020: 05:30-06:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Stefan Schwietzke, Environmental Defense Fund, Berlin, Germany
Conveners:  Christopher Thomas Konek, United Nations Environment Programme, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel J. Varon, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Andreea Calcan, National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli”, Bucharest, Romania
Primary Liaison:  Stefan Schwietzke, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Chairs:  Stefan Schwietzke, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Christopher Thomas Konek, United Nations Environment Programme, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel J. Varon, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Andreea Calcan, National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli”, Bucharest, Romania
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel J. Varon, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
05:30
A015-01
Quantification of methane emissions from oil & gas platforms in the Norwegian Sea & North Sea (671722)
Amy Foulds1, Grant Allen1, Jacob Shaw1, Prudence Bateson2, Patrick Barker1, James D Lee3, Shona Wilde3, Pamela Dominutti4, Ruth Purvis5, David Lowry6, James L France6, Rebecca Fisher6, Magdalena Pühl7, Anke Roiger8, Stephen Conley9, Tom Lachlan-Cope10, Ignacio J Pisso11, Stefan Schwietzke12 and Daniel Zavala Araiza13, (1)University of Manchester, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom, (2)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, (3)University of York, Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, York, United Kingdom, (4)Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, University of York, York, United Kingdom, (5)University of York, Department of Chemistry, York, United Kingdom, (6)Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom, (7)German Aerospace Centre (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (8)Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (9)Scientific Aviation Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (11)Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway, (12)Environmental Defense Fund, Berlin, Germany, (13)Post Doctoral Scientist, Austin, TX, United States
05:33
A015-02
Empirical assessment of methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure in Mexico (720637)
Daniel Zavala Araiza1, Mark Omara2, Ritesh Gautam3, Mackenzie Smith4, Sudhanshu Pandey5, Ilse Aben6, Victor Almanza7, Stephen Conley4, Sander Houweling8, Joannes D Maasakkers5, Luisa Molina9, Tia Scarpelli10, Lu Shen10, Stefan Schwietzke11, Miguel A Zavala7 and Steve Hamburg12, (1)Environmental Defense Fund, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Environmental Defense Fund New York, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Scientific Aviation Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (5)SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (6)SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (7)Molina Center for Energy and the Environment, La Jolla, CA, United States, (8)VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (9)Molina Center for Energy and the Environment, La Jolla, United States, (10)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (11)Environmental Defense Fund, Berlin, Germany, (12)Environmental Defense Fund New York, New York, NY, United States
05:36
A015-03
Update on a Global Study Measuring Methane Emissions From Liquid Natural Gas Facilities Using Differential Absorption Lidar (733884)
Roderick Alan Robinson, Fabrizio Innocenti, Neil Howes, Nigel Yarrow, Tom Gardiner, Andrew Finlayson and Andy Connor, National Physical Laboratory UK, Emissions and Atmospheric Metrology Group, Teddington, United Kingdom
05:39
A015-04
Quantification of the fossil fraction of methane emissions in London using radiocarbon measurements of atmospheric methane (725517)
Giulia Zazzeri, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Xiaomei Xu, Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Heather D Graven, Imperial College London, Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom
05:42
A015-05
Regional Isotopic Fingerprinting of Methane and Ethane from the Fourth largest Hydrocarbon Producer Worldwide: Ethane as a Source-Specific Emissions Indicator (757650)
Karlis Muehlenbachs, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmopsheric Scdiences, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Gabriela González Arismendi, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Edmonton, AB, Canada
05:45
A015-06
Quantification of regional methane emissions in Australia to inform and validate long-term climate policy (720116)
Dimitri Lafleur1, Jeremy Silver2, Steven P. Thomas3, Peter J Rayner4, Cathy M Trudinger5, Ashok Luhar6 and David M Etheridge5, (1)Postdoctoral fellow, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, VIC, Australia, (2)The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, (3)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (4)The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, (5)CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, VIC, Australia, (6)CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Flagship Canberra, Yarralumla, Australia
05:48
A015-07
Methane Emissions from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells: Lessons Learned from the Current Status of Empirical Data (676323)
James Philip Williams, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Mary Kang, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
05:51
A015-08
Estimating Upper Silesian coal mine methane emissions from airborne in situ observations (749079)
Julian Kostinek1, Anke Roiger2, Maximilian Eckl3, Alina Fiehn2, Andreas Luther4, Norman Wildmann2, Theresa Klausner4, Andreas Fix2, Christoph Knote5, Andreas Stohl6 and Andre Butz7, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling, Germany, (5)Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Meteorological Institute, Munich, Germany, (6)University of Vienna, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria, (7)Heidelberg University, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
05:54
A015-09
Quantifying CH4 coal mine emissions in Upper Silesia by passive airborne remote sensing observations with the MAMAP instrument during the CoMet campaign 2018 (721196)
Sven Krautwurst1, Konstantin Gerilowski1, Jakob Borchardt1, Norman Wildmann2, Michal Galkowski3, Julia Marshall3, Alina Fiehn2, Anke Roiger2, Thomas Ruhtz4, Christoph Gerbig3, Justyna Swolkień5, Jarosław M. Nęcki6, John Philip Burrows FRS7, Andreas Fix2 and Heinrich Bovensmann1, (1)University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), Bremen, Germany, (2)Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Signals, Jena, Germany, (4)Free University of Berlin, Institute for Space Sciences, Berlin, Germany, (5)AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering, Kraków, Poland, (6)AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Kraków, Poland, (7)University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany
05:57
A015-10
Methane emissions from coal mining are growing (667289)
Nazar Kholod1, Meredydd Evans1, Raymond Pilcher2, Volha Roshchanka3, Felicia Ruiz4, Michael Coté5 and Ron Collings5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Raven Ridge Resources, Grand Junction, CO, United States, (3)US Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change Division, Washington, DC, United States, (4)US Environmental Protection Agency (former), Washington, DC, United States, (5)Ruby Canyon Engineering, Grand Junction, CO, United States
06:00
A015-11
Science Planning for the MethaneSAT Mission (Invited) (723615)
Joshua Simon Benmergui1, Reuben Rohrschneider2, Mark Omara3, Ritesh Gautam4, Christopher Chan Miller5, Kang Sun6, Jonathan E Franklin1, Steve Hamburg7, Bill Preetz8 and Steven C Wofsy9, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Environmental Defense Fund New York, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (7)Environmental Defense Fund New York, New York, NY, United States, (8)Ubiquity Robotics, Cupertino, United States, (9)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
06:03
A015-12
First results from MethaneAIR: An airborne simulation platform for the MethaneSAT mission (743826)
Christopher Chan Miller1, Jenna Samra1, Kang Sun2, Bruce C Daube3, Jonathan E Franklin4, Joshua Simon Benmergui4, Peter Cheimets5, Xiong Liu1, Amir Souri1, Yeonjin Jung1, Kelly Chance1, Martin H Ettenberg6, Scottt Milligan7 and Steven C Wofsy3, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University at Buffalo, RENEW Institute, Buffalo, NY, United States, (3)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)SAO, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc., Monmouth, United States, (7)Headwall Photonics, Inc, Fitchburg, MA, United States
06:06
A015-13
Quantifying Methane Point Sources in High-Resolution Satellite Imagery (665396)
Apisada Chulakadabba1, Joshua Simon Benmergui2, Yang Li1, Ritesh Gautam3, Thomas Lauvaux4 and Steven C Wofsy1, (1)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
06:09
Discussion
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