Assessing the capability of different satellite observing configurations to resolve the distribution of methane emissions at kilometer scales

Turner, Alexander J.; Jacob, Daniel J.; Benmergui, Joshua; Brandman, Jeremy; White, Laurent; Randles, Cynthia A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8265-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8265-2018

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8265-2018

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

Articles | Volume 18, issue 11

Research article

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13 Jun 2018

Research article |

| 13 Jun 2018

Assessing the capability of different satellite observing configurations to resolve the distribution of methane emissions at kilometer scales

Alexander J. Turner, Daniel J. Jacob, Joshua Benmergui, Jeremy Brandman, Laurent White, and Cynthia A. Randles

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RC1: 'review of Turner et al., 2018', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Mar 2018
RC2: 'Review of “Assessing the capability of different satellite observing configurations to resolve the distribution of methane emissions at kilometer scales” by Turner et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Mar 2018
AC1: 'Response to reviews.', Alexander Turner, 04 May 2018

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ED: Publish as is (15 May 2018) by Martin Heimann

AR by Alexander Turner on behalf of the Authors (15 May 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

We conduct a 1-week WRF-STILT simulation to generate methane column footprints at 1.3 km spatial resolution and hourly temporal resolution over the Barnett Shale. We find that a week of TROPOMI observations should provide regional (~30 km) information on temporally invariant sources and GeoCARB should provide information on temporally invariant sources at 2–7 km spatial resolution. An instrument precision better than 6 ppb is an important threshold for achieving fine resolution of emissions.