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 …

Interpreting contemporary trends in atmospheric methane

AJ Turner, C Frankenberg, EA Kort - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - pnas.org
Atmospheric methane plays a major role in controlling climate, yet contemporary methane
trends (1982–2017) have defied explanation with numerous, often conflicting, hypotheses …

Observation-derived 2010-2019 trends in methane emissions and intensities from US oil and gas fields tied to activity metrics

X Lu, DJ Jacob, Y Zhang, L Shen, MP Sulprizio… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The United States is the world's largest oil/gas methane emitter according to current national
reports. Reducing these emissions is a top priority in the US government's climate action …

On the causes and consequences of recent trends in atmospheric methane

H Schaefer - Current Climate Change Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To investigate which processes cause the current increase in
atmospheric methane in the context of future interactions between climate change, the …

[HTML][HTML] Global distribution of methane emissions, emission trends, and OH concentrations and trends inferred from an inversion of GOSAT satellite data for 2010 …

JD Maasakkers, DJ Jacob, MP Sulprizio… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
We use 2010–2015 observations of atmospheric methane columns from the GOSAT satellite
instrument in a global inverse analysis to improve estimates of methane emissions and their …

[HTML][HTML] Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations

Y Zhang, DJ Jacob, X Lu, JD Maasakkers… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
We conduct a global inverse analysis of 2010–2018 GOSAT observations to better
understand the factors controlling atmospheric methane and its accelerating increase over …

[HTML][HTML] A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite observations

RJ Parker, A Webb, H Boesch… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
This work presents the latest release (v9. 0) of the University of Leicester GOSAT Proxy XCH
4 dataset. Since the launch of the GOSAT satellite in 2009, these data have been produced …

[HTML][HTML] Methane emissions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: evaluation of national methane emission inventories and 2010–2017 sectoral trends by inverse …

X Lu, DJ Jacob, H Wang, JD Maasakkers… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We quantify methane emissions and their 2010–2017 trends by sector in the contiguous
United States (CONUS), Canada, and Mexico by inverse analysis of in situ …

A global gridded () inventory of methane emissions from oil, gas, and coal exploitation based on national reports to the United Nations Framework …

TR Scarpelli, DJ Jacob, JD Maasakkers… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Individual countries report national emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in
accordance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) …

Emissions from the oil and gas sectors, coal mining and ruminant farming drive methane growth over the past three decades

N Chandra, PK Patra, JSH Bisht, A Ito… - Journal of the …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Methane (CH 4) is an important greenhouse gas and plays a significant role in tropospheric
and stratospheric chemistry. Despite the relevance of methane (CH 4) in human-induced …