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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1497-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1497-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
14 Feb 2025
Research article |
| 14 Feb 2025
| 14 Feb 2025
Airborne in situ quantification of methane emissions from oil and gas production in Romania
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Utrecht, the Netherlands
now at: Department of Renewable Energies and Environment, College of Interdisciplinary Science and Technologies, University of Tehran (UT), Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Foteini Stavropoulou
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Berlin, Germany
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Samuel Jonson Sutanto
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
now at: Earth Systems and Global Change, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Wageningen, the Netherlands
Michael Steiner
Laboratory for Air Pollution/Environmental Technology, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Dominik Brunner
Laboratory for Air Pollution/Environmental Technology, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Mariano Mertens
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Patrick Jöckel
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Antoon Visschedijk
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Utrecht, the Netherlands
Hugo Denier van der Gon
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Utrecht, the Netherlands
Stijn Dellaert
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Utrecht, the Netherlands
Nataly Velandia Salinas
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Berlin, Germany
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Stefan Schwietzke
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Berlin, Germany
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Daniel Zavala-Araiza
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Berlin, Germany
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sorin Ghemulet
National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” (INCAS), Bucharest, Romania
Alexandru Pana
National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” (INCAS), Bucharest, Romania
Magdalena Ardelean
National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” (INCAS), Bucharest, Romania
Marius Corbu
National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” (INCAS), Bucharest, Romania
Andreea Calcan
National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” (INCAS), Bucharest, Romania
now at: International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Paris, France
Stephen A. Conley
Scientific Aviation (SA) Inc., 3335 Airport Road Suite B, Boulder, Colorado 80301, United States
Mackenzie L. Smith
Scientific Aviation (SA) Inc., 3335 Airport Road Suite B, Boulder, Colorado 80301, United States
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Data sets
Data supplement to: Airborne in-situ quantification of methane emissions from oil and gas production in Romania Hossein Maazallahi https://doi.org/10.18160/0MQ5-FQAV
Model code and software
hossein-maazallahi/Airborne_measurements-models: Airborne in-situ methane emission measurements and model simulations (v1.0.0) Hossein Maazallahi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12701604
Video abstract
Take-home message from airborne in-situ quantification of methane emissions from oil and gas production in Romania Hossein Maazallahi https://doi.org/10.5446/69355
Short summary
This article presents insights from airborne in situ measurements collected during the ROmanian Methane Emissions from Oil and gas (ROMEO) campaign supported by two models. Results reveal Romania's oil and gas methane emissions were significantly under-reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2019. A large underestimation was also found in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) v7.0 for the study domain in the same year.
This article presents insights from airborne in situ measurements collected during the ROmanian...
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