Detecting high-emitting methane sources in oil/gas fields using satellite observations

Cusworth, Daniel H.; Jacob, Daniel J.; Sheng, Jian-Xiong; Benmergui, Joshua; Turner, Alexander J.; Brandman, Jeremy; White, Laurent; Randles, Cynthia A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16885-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16885-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16885-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

Research article

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29 Nov 2018

Research article |

| 29 Nov 2018

Detecting high-emitting methane sources in oil/gas fields using satellite observations

Daniel H. Cusworth, Daniel J. Jacob, Jian-Xiong Sheng, Joshua Benmergui, Alexander J. Turner, Jeremy Brandman, Laurent White, and Cynthia A. Randles

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RC3: 'Review of "Detecting high-emitting methane sources in oil/gas fields using satellite observations" by Cusworth et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 26 Sep 2018
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Nov 2018) by Qiang Zhang

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ED: Publish as is (19 Nov 2018) by Qiang Zhang

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Methane emissions from oil/gas fields originate from a large number of small and densely clustered point sources. We examine the potential of recently launched or planned satellites to locate these high-mode emitters through measurements of atmospheric methane. We find that the recently launched TROPOMI and the planned GeoCARB instruments are successful at locating high-emitting sources for fields of 20-50 emitters within the 50 × 50 km² geographic domain but are unsuccessful for denser fields.