Emissions estimation from satellite retrievals: A review of current capability

Streets, D. G.; Canty, T. P.; Carmichael, Gregory R.; Foy, B. de; Dickerson, Russell R.; Duncan, B. N.; Edwards, D. P.; Haynes, J.; Henze, D. K.; Houyoux, Marc; Jacob, Daniel J.; Krotkov, Nickolay A.; Lamsal, L. N.; Liu, Yang; Lü, Zifeng; Martin, Randall V.; Pfister, Gabriele; Pinder, R. W.; Salawitch, R. J.; Wecht, K.

doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.05.051

Cited by 349 publications

(217 citation statements)

References 332 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

196

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…[7,23]), provided real time NO 2 forecasts are available at TEMPO processing time. The resultant TEMPO NO 2 will offer a powerful constraint on NO x emissions [72,100].…”

Section: Trace Gas Column Measurementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)

Zoogman

Liu

Suleiman

et al. 2017

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

283

144

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…[7,23]), provided real time NO 2 forecasts are available at TEMPO processing time. The resultant TEMPO NO 2 will offer a powerful constraint on NO x emissions [72,100].…”

Section: Trace Gas Column Measurementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)

Zoogman

Liu

Suleiman

et al. 2017

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

283

144

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…NO x emissions have been assessed using satellite measurements of integrated NO 2 column concentrations (see review by Streets et al, 2013). These assessments require that a chemical transport model be used to transform emissions into the quantities observed in the measurement (NO 2 column concentrations), but the approach has been widely used to estimate trends in emissions.…”

Section: Zavala Et Al 2015amentioning

confidence: 99%

Emissions from oil and gas operations in the United States and their air quality implications

Allen

2016

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The energy supply infrastructure in the United States has been changing dramatically over the past decade. Increased production of oil and natural gas, particularly from shale resources using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, made the United States the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas in 2014. This review examines air quality impacts, specifically, changes in greenhouse gas, criteria air pollutant, and air toxics emissions from oil and gas production activities that are a result of these changes in energy supplies and use. National emission inventories indicate that volatile organic compound (VOC) and nitrogen oxide (NO x ) emissions from oil and gas supply chains in the United States have been increasing significantly, whereas emission inventories for greenhouse gases have seen slight declines over the past decade. These emission inventories are based on counts of equipment and operational activities (activity factors), multiplied by average emission factors, and therefore are subject to uncertainties in these factors. Although uncertainties associated with activity data and missing emission source types can be significant, multiple recent measurement studies indicate that the greatest uncertainties are associated with emission factors. In many source categories, small groups of devices or sites, referred to as super-emitters, contribute a large fraction of emissions. When super-emitters are accounted for, multiple measurement approaches, at multiple scales, produce similar results for estimated emissions. Challenges moving forward include identifying super-emitters and reducing their emission magnitudes. Work done to date suggests that both equipment malfunction and operational practices can be important. Finally, although most of this review focuses on emissions from energy supply infrastructures, the regional air quality implications of some coupled energy production and use scenarios are examined. These case studies suggest that both energy production and use should be considered in assessing air quality implications of changes in energy infrastructures, and that impacts are likely to vary among regions. Implications: The energy supply infrastructure in the United States has been changing dramatically over the past decade, leading to changes in emissions from oil and natural gas supply chain sources. In many source categories along these supply chains, small groups of devices or sites, referred to as super-emitters, contribute a large fraction of emissions. Effective emission reductions will require technologies for both identifying super-emitters and reducing their emission magnitudes. PAPER HISTORY

show abstract

“…The association of human activity with the presence of tropospheric aerosols is well established from both ground-based (Jimenez et al 2009;Yoon et al 2016) and space-based observations (Streets et al 2013;Yoon et al 2014;He et al 2016;McLinden et al 2016). Yet, quantification of the RF of climate due to tropospheric aerosols continues to pose a scientific challenge due to the inability to precisely define numerical values of both the direct modulation of RF by anthropogenic aerosols (Myhre 2009;Kahn 2012;Bond et al 2013) and the changes in RF driven by the effect of aerosols on clouds (Morgan et al 2006;Carslaw et al 2013).…”

Section: Aerosolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a consequence, movements are underway throughout the world to reduce both the direct emission of aerosols as well as the emission of aerosol precursors. Reductions in the abundance of tropospheric aerosols and aerosol precursors, in response to air quality legislation motivated by public health concerns, have been readily observed by space-borne 33 Atmospheric abundance of NF 3 peaked at 0.0012 ppb in late 2011 (Arnold et al 2012) and radiative efficiency is 0.2 W m −2 ppb −1 (Table 8. instrumentation throughout the world (Streets et al 2013;Yoon et al 2014;He et al 2016). As such, the climate system is presently transitioning from an era where the cooling of climate due to aerosols may have had close to comparable strength as GHG induced warming to an era where the radiative warming due to GHGs will dominate aerosol cooling (Smith and Bond 2014).…”

Section: Aerosolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Earth’s Climate System

et al. 2017

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This chapter provides an overview of the factors that influence Earth's climate. The relation between reconstructions of global mean surface temperature and estimates of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) over the past 500 million years is first described. Vast variations in climate on geologic time scales, driven by natural fluctuations of CO 2 , are readily apparent. We then shift attention to the time period 1765 to present, known as the Anthropocene, during which human activity has strongly influenced atmospheric CO 2 , other greenhouse gases (GHGs), and Earth's climate. Two mathematical concepts essential for quantitative understanding of climate change, radiative forcing and global warming potential, are described. Next, fingerprints of the impact of human activity on rising temperature and the abundance of various GHGs over the course of the Anthropocene are presented. We conclude by showing Earth is in the midst of a remarkable transformation. In the past, radiative forcing of climate represented a balance between warming due to rising GHGs and cooling due to the presence of suspended particles (aerosols) in the troposphere. There presently exists considerable uncertainty in the actual magnitude of radiative forcing of climate due to tropospheric aerosols, which has important consequences for our understanding of the climate system. In the future, climate will be driven mainly by GHG warming because aerosol precursors are being effectively removed from pollution sources, due to air quality legislation enacted in response to public health concerns.

show abstract

Emissions estimation from satellite retrievals: A review of current capability

Cited by 349 publications

References 332 publications

Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)

Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)

Emissions from oil and gas operations in the United States and their air quality implications

Earth’s Climate System

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About