Technical note: Isolating methane emissions from animal feeding operations in an interfering location

McCabe, Megan E.; Pollack, Ilana B.; Fischer, Emily V.; Steinmann, Kathryn M.; Caulton, Dana R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7479-2023

Articles | Volume 23, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7479-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7479-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 13

Technical note

|

10 Jul 2023

Technical note |

| 10 Jul 2023

Technical note: Isolating methane emissions from animal feeding operations in an interfering location

Megan E. McCabe, Ilana B. Pollack, Emily V. Fischer, Kathryn M. Steinmann, and Dana R. Caulton

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7479-2023-supplement

Data sets

Ammonia phase PARtitioning and Transport-lite Dana Caulton https://doi.org/10.15786/22677718

TRANS2AM Data Sets Jeff French, Ilana Pollack, Dana Caulton, Amy Sullivan, and NCAR/EOL https://data.eol.ucar.edu/master_lists/generated/trans2am/

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Agriculture emissions, including those from beef and dairy cattle feeding operations, make up a large portion of the United States’ total greenhouse gas emissions, but many of these operations reside in areas where methane from oil and natural gas is prevalent, making it difficult to attribute methane in these areas. This work investigates two approaches to emission attribution for cattle feeding operations and provides guidance for emission attribution in other complicated regions.