Jacob, Daniel: Harvard University (Project Lead)
Bowman, Kevin: JPL (Co-Investigator)
Maasakkers, Joannes: SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Participant)
Turner, Alexander: University of California (Participant)
Alvarez, Ramon: Environmental Defense Fund (Stakeholder)
Gautam, Ritesh: Environmental Defense Fund (Stakeholder)
Hamburg, Steven: Environmental Defense Fund (Stakeholder)
Irving, William (Bill): U.S. EPA Climate Change Division (Stakeholder)
Moran, Michael (Mike): Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) (Stakeholder)
Octaviano Villasana, Claudia (Claudia Octaviano): Mexican National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC Mexico) (Stakeholder)
Ratner, Ben: Environmental Defense Fund (Stakeholder)
Weitz, Melissa: U.S. EPA Climate Change Division (Stakeholder)
Project Funding:
2014 - 2017
NRA: 2014 NASA: Carbon Monitoring System
Funded by NASA
Abstract:
Our proposal will focus on the exploitation of GOSAT and TROPOMI data to better constrain anthropogenic and natural methane emissions at high resolution (0.25x0.33 deg) in North America and globally at (2x2.5 deg). Our work takes advantage of previous integration with CMS-Flux that uses a consistent 4DVAR capability and wetland emissions driven by common biogeochemical models and data. Products generated from this proposal will be used in collaboration with EPA scientists in integrating the information from bottom-up and top-down constraints on emissions. We anticipate a budget request of $300 K per year for three years.
Publications:
Ma, S., Worden, J. R., Bloom, A. A., Zhang, Y., Poulter, B., Cusworth, D. H., Yin, Y., Pandey, S., Maasakkers, J. D., Lu, X., Shen, L., Sheng, J., Frankenberg, C., Miller, C. E., Jacob, D. J. 2021. Satellite Constraints on the Latitudinal Distribution and Temperature Sensitivity of Wetland Methane Emissions. AGU Advances. 2(3). DOI: 10.1029/2021AV000408
Parker, R. J., Boesch, H., McNorton, J., Comyn-Platt, E., Gloor, M., Wilson, C., Chipperfield, M. P., Hayman, G. D., Bloom, A. A. 2018. Evaluating year-to-year anomalies in tropical wetland methane emissions using satellite CH4 observations. Remote Sensing of Environment. 211, 261-275. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.011
Sheng, J., Jacob, D. J., Maasakkers, J. D., Sulprizio, M. P., Zavala-Araiza, D., Hamburg, S. P. 2017. A high-resolution (0.1deg x 0.1deg) inventory of methane emissions from Canadian and Mexican oil and gas systems. Atmospheric Environment. 158, 211-215. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.02.036
Turner, A. J., Frankenberg, C., Wennberg, P. O., Jacob, D. J. 2017. Ambiguity in the causes for decadal trends in atmospheric methane and hydroxyl. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(21), 5367-5372. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616020114
Zhang, Y., Gautam, R., Pandey, S., Omara, M., Maasakkers, J. D., Sadavarte, P., Lyon, D., Nesser, H., Sulprizio, M. P., Varon, D. J., Zhang, R., Houweling, S., Zavala-Araiza, D., Alvarez, R. A., Lorente, A., Hamburg, S. P., Aben, I., Jacob, D. J. 2020. Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space. Science Advances. 6(17). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5120
Maasakkers, J. D., Jacob, D. J., Sulprizio, M. P., Turner, A. J., Weitz, M., Wirth, T., Hight, C., DeFigueiredo, M., Desai, M., Schmeltz, R., Hockstad, L., Bloom, A. A., Bowman, K. W., Jeong, S., Fischer, M. L. 2016. Gridded National Inventory of U.S. Methane Emissions. Environmental Science & Technology. 50(23), 13123-13133. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02878
Turner, A. J., Jacob, D. J., Benmergui, J., Wofsy, S. C., Maasakkers, J. D., Butz, A., Hasekamp, O., Biraud, S. C. 2016. A large increase in U.S. methane emissions over the past decade inferred from satellite data and surface observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(5), 2218-2224. DOI: 10.1002/2016gl067987
Turner, A. J., Jacob, D. J., Wecht, K. J., Maasakkers, J. D., Lundgren, E., Andrews, A. E., Biraud, S. C., Boesch, H., Bowman, K. W., Deutscher, N. M., Dubey, M. K., Griffith, D. W. T., Hase, F., Kuze, A., Notholt, J., Ohyama, H., Parker, R., Payne, V. H., Sussmann, R., Sweeney, C., Velazco, V. A., Warneke, T., Wennberg, P. O., Wunch, D. 2015. Estimating global and North American methane emissions with high spatial resolution using GOSAT satellite data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 15(12), 7049-7069. DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-7049-2015
Turner, A. J., Jacob, D. J. 2015. Balancing aggregation and smoothing errors in inverse models. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 15(12), 7039-7048. DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-7039-2015
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