Local-to-regional methane emissions from the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB) quantified using UAV-based atmospheric measurements

Andersen, Truls; Zhao, Zhao; de Vries, Marcel; Necki, Jaroslaw; Swolkien, Justyna; Menoud, Malika; Röckmann, Thomas; Roiger, Anke; Fix, Andreas; Peters, Wouter; Chen, Huilin

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Local-to-regional methane emissions from the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB) quantified using UAV-based atmospheric measurements

Truls Andersen, Zhao Zhao, Marcel de Vries, Jaroslaw Necki, Justyna Swolkien, Malika Menoud, Thomas Röckmann, Anke Roiger, Andreas Fix, Wouter Peters, and Huilin Chen

Truls Andersen

Centre for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Zhao Zhao

Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Marcel de Vries

Centre for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Jaroslaw Necki

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0225-2581

Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

Justyna Swolkien

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4332-9415

Faculty Civil Engineering and Resource Management, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

Malika Menoud

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7061-2684

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Thomas Röckmann

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6688-8968

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Anke Roiger

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Andreas Fix

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2818-9290

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Wouter Peters

Centre for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Huilin Chen

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

huilin.chen@rug.nl and huilin.chen@nju.edu.cn

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-6673

Centre for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Institute Groningen (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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The Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland, is one of the hot spots of methane emissions in Europe. Using an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), we performed atmospheric measurements of methane concentrations downwind of five ventilation shafts in this region and determined the emission rates from the individual shafts. We found a strong correlation between quantified shaft-averaged emission rates and hourly inventory data, which also allows us to estimate the methane emissions from the entire region.

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