Assessment of Anthropogenic Methane Emissions over Large Regions Based on GOSAT Observations and High Resolution Transport Modeling
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Data
2.1. GOSAT XCH4 Observations
2.2. CH4 Emission Inventory
2.3. Meteorological Data Used for Transport Simulations
3. Methods
3.1. Atmospheric CH4 Transport Simulation
3.2. Correction for Terrain Related Bias in XCH4
3.3. ΔXCH4 from GOSAT
4. Results and Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Longitude (Degree) | Latitude (Degree) | (ppb) | (ppb) | Region |
---|---|---|---|---|
−119 | 33 | 21.39 | 24.44 | Los Angeles (USA) |
73 | 41 | 21.02 | 13.88 | Ferghana valley (Uzbekistan) |
77 | 43 | 11.54 | 13.20 | Umnugovi (Mongolia) |
105 | 31 | 58.47 | 12.43 | Ningxia (China) |
107 | 31 | 55.30 | 13.97 | Dazhou (China) |
107 | 35 | 18.63 | 10.46 | Baoji (China) |
109 | 35 | 28.00 | 11.27 | Xian (China) |
111 | 35 | 14.01 | 10.71 | Yuncheng (China) |
111 | 37 | 13.74 | 17.16 | Shanxi (China) |
113 | 35 | 29.90 | 20.67 | Zhengzhou (China) |
113 | 37 | 16.39 | 40.80 | Changzhi, Shanxi (China) |
115 | 33 | 28.46 | 16.39 | Zhoukou, Fuyang (China) |
115 | 35 | 26.59 | 21.78 | Puyang, Shangqiu (China) |
117 | 33 | 23.49 | 12.82 | Bengbu (China) |
117 | 39 | 22.13 | 11.65 | Tianjin (China) |
119 | 31 | 42.80 | 16.65 | Xuancheng (China) |
119 | 33 | 38.34 | 11.93 | Huai’an (China) |
119 | 35 | 18.14 | 16.20 | Junan (China) |
119 | 37 | 15.97 | 20.48 | Weifang, Dongying (China) |
129 | 51 | 14.26 | 13.82 | Belogorsk (Russia) |
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Janardanan, R.; Maksyutov, S.; Ito, A.; Yukio, Y.; Matsunaga, T. Assessment of Anthropogenic Methane Emissions over Large Regions Based on GOSAT Observations and High Resolution Transport Modeling. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 941. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090941
Janardanan R, Maksyutov S, Ito A, Yukio Y, Matsunaga T. Assessment of Anthropogenic Methane Emissions over Large Regions Based on GOSAT Observations and High Resolution Transport Modeling. Remote Sensing. 2017; 9(9):941. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090941
Chicago/Turabian StyleJanardanan, Rajesh, Shamil Maksyutov, Akihiko Ito, Yoshida Yukio, and Tsuneo Matsunaga. 2017. "Assessment of Anthropogenic Methane Emissions over Large Regions Based on GOSAT Observations and High Resolution Transport Modeling" Remote Sensing 9, no. 9: 941. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090941