Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane

Daniel Jacob1, Daniel J. Varon2, Daniel Cusworth3, Philip E Dennison4, Christian Frankenberg5, Ritesh Gautam6, Luis Guanter7, John Kelley8, Jason McKeever9, Lesley E Ott10, Benjamin Poulter11, Zhen Qu12, Andrew K Thorpe13, John R Worden14 and Riley Duren3, (1)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (4)University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, United States, (7)Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, (8)GeoSapient, Inc., Cypress, United States, (9)GHGSat, Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (11)NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (14)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States