Quantifying methane emissions from natural gas production in north-eastern Pennsylvania

Barkley, Zachary R.; Lauvaux, Thomas; Davis, Kenneth J.; Deng, Aijun; Miles, Natasha L.; Richardson, Scott J.; Cao, Yanni; Sweeney, Colm; Karion, Anna; Smith, MacKenzie; Kort, Eric A.; Schwietzke, Stefan; Murphy, Thomas; Cervone, Guido; Martins, Douglas; Maasakkers, Joannes D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13941-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 22

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 13941–13966, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13941-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 13941–13966, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13941-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 22

Research article 23 Nov 2017

Research article | 23 Nov 2017

Quantifying methane emissions from natural gas production in north-eastern Pennsylvania

Zachary R. Barkley et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 23 Nov 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 25 Apr 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Barkley et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 May 2017
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Zachary Barkley, 18 Aug 2017
RC2: 'Review of Barkley et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Zachary Barkley, 18 Aug 2017

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AR by Zachary Barkley on behalf of the Authors (14 Sep 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Sep 2017) by Thomas Karl

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (17 Oct 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Oct 2017) by Thomas Karl

AR by Zachary Barkley on behalf of the Authors (19 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This study quantifies methane emissions from natural gas production in north-eastern Pennsylvania. Methane observations from 10 flights in spring 2015 are compared to model-projected values, and methane emissions from natural gas are adjusted within the model to create the best match between the two data sets. This study find methane emissions from natural gas production to be low and may be indicative of characteristics of the basin that make sources from north-eastern Pennsylvania unique.