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Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2121-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2121-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Research article
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15 Feb 2022
Research article |  | 15 Feb 2022

Using carbon-14 and carbon-13 measurements for source attribution of atmospheric methane in the Athabasca oil sands region

Regina Gonzalez Moguel, Felix Vogel, Sébastien Ars, Hinrich Schaefer, Jocelyn C. Turnbull, and Peter M. J. Douglas

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Evaluating methane (CH4) sources in the Athabasca oil sands region (AOSR) is crucial to effectively mitigate CH4 emissions. We tested the use of carbon isotopes to estimate source contributions from key CH4 sources in the AOSR and found that 56 ± 18 % of CH4 emissions originated from surface mining and processing facilities, 34 ± 18 % from tailings ponds, and 10 ± < 1 % from wetlands, confirming previous findings and showing that this method can be successfully used to partition CH4 sources.
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