Up to 200% underestimation of cumulative methane emission from individual landfills uncovers tens of Tg of overlooked annual emission worldwide
Yao Wang,
Ke Yin,
Mingliang Fang
et al.
Abstract:Landfill methane (CH4) emissions account for ~ 10% of all anthropogenic CH4 emissions globally, amounting to ~ 50 Tg/year. Contrasted by “top-down” atmospheric inversion results, the mainstream “bottom-up” emission inventories, which use the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) model, exhibit significant bias due to inaccurate a priori decay constant (k) estimations. We improved the k estimation method by incorporating composition- and environment-specific corrections, which are readily integrate… Show more
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