Methane mitigation: methods to reduce emissions, on the path to the Paris agreement

EG Nisbet, RE Fisher, D Lowry, JL France… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The atmospheric methane burden is increasing rapidly, contrary to pathways compatible
with the goals of the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris …

How green is blue hydrogen?

RW Howarth, MZ Jacobson - Energy Science & Engineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen is often viewed as an important energy carrier in a future decarbonized world.
Currently, most hydrogen is produced by steam reforming of methane in natural gas (“gray …

Volatile chemical product emissions enhance ozone and modulate urban chemistry

MM Coggon, GI Gkatzelis… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Decades of air quality improvements have substantially reduced the motor vehicle
emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Today, volatile chemical products (VCPs) …

Global warming consequences of replacing natural gas with hydrogen in the domestic energy sectors of future low-carbon economies in the United Kingdom and the …

RA Field, RG Derwent - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrogen has a potentially important future role as a replacement for natural gas in the
domestic sector in a zero-carbon economy for heating homes and cooking. To assess this …

Atmospheric research over the Western North Atlantic Ocean Region and North American East Coast: A review of past work and challenges ahead

A Sorooshian, AF Corral, RA Braun… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Decades of atmospheric research have focused on the Western North Atlantic Ocean
(WNAO) region because of its unique location that offers accessibility for airborne and ship …

Majority of US urban natural gas emissions unaccounted for in inventories

MR Sargent, C Floerchinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Across many cities, estimates of methane emissions from natural gas (NG) distribution and
end use based on atmospheric measurements have generally been more than double …

A national estimate of methane leakage from pipeline mains in natural gas local distribution systems

ZD Weller, SP Hamburg… - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We estimate methane emissions from US local distribution natural gas (NG) pipes using
data collected from an advanced mobile leak detection (AMLD) platform. We estimate that …

Investigating high methane emissions from urban areas detected by TROPOMI and their association with untreated wastewater

B de Foy, JJ Schauer, A Lorente… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Even though methane concentrations have contributed an estimated 23% of climate forcing,
part of the recent increases in the global methane background concentrations remain …

Evaluating urban methane emissions from space using TROPOMI methane and carbon monoxide observations

G Plant, EA Kort, LT Murray, JD Maasakkers… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic methane emissions from urban centers are important and addressable, yet
remain poorly characterized, and the representativeness of studies from individual cities is …

Decadal decrease in Los Angeles methane emissions is much smaller than bottom-up estimates

ZC Zeng, T Pongetti, S Newman, T Oda… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has a short atmospheric lifetime (~ 12 years), so that
emissions reductions will have a rapid impact on climate forcing. In megacities such as Los …