Monthly trends of methane emissions in Los Angeles from 2011 to 2015 inferred by CLARS-FTS observations
Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of methane emissions from the Los Angeles Basin at monthly timescales across a 4-year time period – from September 2011 to August 2015. Using observations acquired by a ground-based near-infrared remote sensing instrument on Mount Wilson, California, combined with atmospheric CH_4–CO_2 tracer–tracer correlations, we observed −18 to +22 % monthly variability in CH_4 : CO_2 from the annual mean in the Los Angeles Basin. Top-down estimates of methane emissions for the basin also exhibit significant monthly variability (−19 to +31 % from annual mean and a maximum month-to-month change of 47 %). During this period, methane emissions consistently peaked in the late summer/early fall and winter. The estimated annual methane emissions did not show a statistically significant trend over the 2011 to 2015 time period.
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© 2016 Author(s). This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Received: 16 Mar 2016 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 29 Apr 2016; Revised: 06 Sep 2016 – Accepted: 10 Sep 2016 – Published: 26 Oct 2016. The research in this study was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Clare K. Wong thanks the California Air Resources Board, NIST GHG and Climate Science Program, and the W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies for support. The authors would like to acknowledge our colleagues at JPL and California Institute of Technology, and Risa Patarasuk at Arizona State University for helpful comments and suggestions.Attached Files
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- NASA/JPL/Caltech
- California Air Resources Board
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS)
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2016-12-06Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Keck Institute for Space Studies, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences