The role of satellite remote sensing in mitigating and adapting to global climate change

S Zhao, M Liu, M Tao, W Zhou, X Lu, Y **ong… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change has critical adverse impacts on human society and poses severe
challenges to global sustainable development. Information on essential climate variables …

Attribution of individual methane and carbon dioxide emission sources using EMIT observations from space

AK Thorpe, RO Green, DR Thompson, PG Brodrick… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Carbon dioxide and methane emissions are the two primary anthropogenic climate-forcing
agents and an important source of uncertainty in the global carbon budget. Uncertainties are …

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

DJ Jacob, DJ Varon, DH Cusworth… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We review the capability of current and scheduled satellite observations of atmospheric
methane in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) to quantify methane emissions from the global …

 Single-blind validation of space-based point-source detection and quantification of onshore methane emissions

ED Sherwin, JS Rutherford, Y Chen, S Aminfard… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Satellites are increasingly seen as a tool for identifying large greenhouse gas point sources
for mitigation, but independent verification of satellite performance is needed for acceptance …

Monitoring methane emissions from oil and gas operations

W Collins, R Orbach, M Bailey, S Biraud… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The atmospheric concentration of methane has more than doubled since the start of the
Industrial Revolution. Methane is the second-most-abundant greenhouse gas created by …

Methane emissions from China: a high-resolution inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations

Z Chen, DJ Jacob, H Nesser… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We quantify methane emissions in China and the contributions from different sectors by
inverse analysis of 2019 TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane. The …

Improving quantification of methane point source emissions from imaging spectroscopy

Z Pei, G Han, H Mao, C Chen, T Shi, K Yang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The matched filter (MF) method is widely used for hyperspectral imaging spectrometers to
detect and quantify methane point sources due to its high computational efficiency …

Automated detection and monitoring of methane super-emitters using satellite data

BJ Schuit, JD Maasakkers, P Bijl… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
A reduction in anthropogenic methane emissions is vital to limit near-term global warming. A
small number of so-called super-emitters is responsible for a disproportionally large fraction …

[HTML][HTML] The Nord Stream pipeline gas leaks released approximately 220,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere

M Jia, F Li, Y Zhang, M Wu, Y Li, S Feng… - Environmental Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sudden mega natural gas leaks of two Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea (Denmark)
occurred from late September to early October 2022, releasing large amounts of methane …

[HTML][HTML] Daily detection and quantification of methane leaks using Sentinel-3: a tiered satellite observation approach with Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-5p

S Pandey, M van Nistelrooij, JD Maasakkers… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The twin Sentinel-3 satellites have multi-band radiometers which observe in methane-
sensitive shortwave infrared bands with daily global coverage and 500 m ground pixel …