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. 2016 Dec 6;50(23):13123-13133.
doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02878. Epub 2016 Nov 16.

Gridded National Inventory of U.S. Methane Emissions

Joannes D Maasakkers  1 , Daniel J Jacob  1 , Melissa P Sulprizio  1 , Alexander J Turner  1 , Melissa Weitz  2 , Tom Wirth  2 , Cate Hight  2 , Mark DeFigueiredo  2 , Mausami Desai  2 , Rachel Schmeltz  2 , Leif Hockstad  2 , Anthony A Bloom  3 , Kevin W Bowman  3 , Seongeun Jeong  4 , Marc L Fischer  4
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Gridded National Inventory of U.S. Methane Emissions

Joannes D Maasakkers et al. Environ Sci Technol. .
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Abstract

We present a gridded inventory of US anthropogenic methane emissions with 0.1° × 0.1° spatial resolution, monthly temporal resolution, and detailed scale-dependent error characterization. The inventory is designed to be consistent with the 2016 US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (GHGI) for 2012. The EPA inventory is available only as national totals for different source types. We use a wide range of databases at the state, county, local, and point source level to disaggregate the inventory and allocate the spatial and temporal distribution of emissions for individual source types. Results show large differences with the EDGAR v4.2 global gridded inventory commonly used as a priori estimate in inversions of atmospheric methane observations. We derive grid-dependent error statistics for individual source types from comparison with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) regional inventory for Northeast Texas. These error statistics are independently verified by comparison with the California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement (CALGEM) grid-resolved emission inventory. Our gridded, time-resolved inventory provides an improved basis for inversion of atmospheric methane observations to estimate US methane emissions and interpret the results in terms of the underlying processes.

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