Emissions from Natural Gas Operations in the Marcellus Scale Formation: In Situ and and Remote Sensing

Russell R Dickerson1, Xinrong Ren1, Anne W Thompson2, Ross J Salawitch3, Paul B Shepson4, John Philip Burrows FRS5, Sayantan Sahu6 and Debra E Kollonige7, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Purdue University, Departments of Chemistry, and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), Bremen, Germany, (6)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (7)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States
Abstract:
Substantial increases in natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale formation have led to measurable increases in select trace gas concentrations in the Eastern US. We present surface, aircraft, and satellite observations of trace gases to help quantify those emissions and their impacts on air quality in the Mid Atlantic States. Observations are being compared to models using data assimilation to evaluate emissions estimates. These efforts represent work done under NASA's Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, AQAST and initial steps of Flux of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases, Maryland FLAGG-MD.
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