A42C:
Improving Emissions Through Observations V

Session ID#: 5354

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3014 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Gregory J Frost1, Monika Kopacz2, Ray Bambha3 and Hope A Michelsen3, (1)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States(2)NOAA, Silver Spring, United States(3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Convener:  Gregory J Frost, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Monika Kopacz, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Ray Bambha, Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA, United States and Hope A Michelsen, Sandia Natl Lab, Livermore, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Gregory J Frost, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0478 Pollution: urban, regional and global [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Long-term Trends and Confidence in Global Natural Gas Fugitive Emissions Rates Based on δ13C-CH4 (28358)
Stefan Schwietzke1, Owen Sherwood2, Pieter P Tans3, Sylvia Michel4, John B Miller3, Edward J Dlugokencky5, W. Michael Griffin6 and Lori Bruhwiler3, (1)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA/ESRL, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Carnegie Mellon University, Engineering and Public Policy, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Isotopic constraints on the decadal trends of global methane emissions favor increasing fossil fuel emissions over recent decades (30616)
Christopher L Butenhoff1, Andrew L Rice1, Florian H Roeger2, Doaa G Teama2, Aslam Khan Khalil2 and Reinhold Rasmussen3, (1)Portland State University, Physics, Portland, OR, United States, (2)Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, (3)Oregon Health & Science University, Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, Beaverton, OR, United States
Contribution of Oil and Gas Production to Atmospheric CH4 in the South-Central United States: Reconciling Bottom-up and Top-down Estimates (26694)
Zhen Liu1, Joseph P Pinto2, Alexander J. Turner3, Lori Bruhwiler4, Daven K Henze5, Jerome F Brioude6, Nicolas Bousserez7, Khachik Sargsyan1, Cosmin Safta1, Habib N Najm8, Brian W LaFranchi1, Ray Bambha1 and Hope A Michelsen1, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)U. S. EPA/NCEA, Durham, NC, United States, (3)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (6)CNRS / Université de La Réunion / Météo-France, Laboratoire de l'Atmosphere et des Cyclones (LACy), Saint-Denis, Reunion, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States
Quantifying the Industrial Facility-Level Emission Rate of Methane in Various Segments of the Natural Gas Industry (Invited) (5097)
Scott C. Herndon1, Joseph R Roscioli1, Tara Irene Yacovitch2, Cody R Floerchinger2, Austin Mitchell3, Daniel S Tkacik3, R Subramanian3, Allen L Robinson3, David M Martinez4, Timothy L Vaughn5, Laurie Williams4, Daniel Zimmerle6 and Anthony Marchese4, (1)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (2)Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica, MA, United States, (3)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States
Global Emissions of Refrigerants HCFC-22 and HFC-134a: Unforeseen Seasonal Contributions (18648)
Bin Xiang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Dr. Prabir Kumar Patra, PhD, JAMSTEC, Research Institute for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan, Stephen A Montzka, NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Scot M Miller, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, James W Elkins, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Fred Moore, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, Elliot L Atlas, University of Miami, Miami, United States, Benjamin R Miller, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Ronald G Prinn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States and Steven C Wofsy, Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States
Are National HFC Inventory Reports Accurate? (22748)
Mark F Lunt1, Matthew L Rigby1, Anita Ganesan1, Alistair Manning2, Simon O'Doherty3, Ronald G Prinn4, Takuya Saito5, Christina M Harth6, Jens Muhle7, Ray F Weiss7, Peter Salameh7, Tim Arnold6, Yoko Yokouchi5, Paul B Krummel8, Paul Steele9, Paul J. Fraser10, Shanlan Li11,12, Sunyoung Park13, Jooil Kim7, Stefan Reimann14, Martin K Vollmer15, Chris R Lunder16, Ove Hermansen16, Norbert Schmidbauer16, Dickon Young3 and Peter G Simmonds1, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office, Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States, (5)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (6)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (8)Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Aspendale, Australia, (9)Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Aspendale, Australia, (10)CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia, (11)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (12)Kyungpook National University, Department of Oceanography, Sangju, Korea, Republic of (South), (13)Kyungpook National University, Department of Oceanography, Daegu, South Korea, (14)Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (15)Empa, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (16)Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
Solving the carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) budget mystery using surface observations (13344)
Qing Liang, NASA GSFC, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamic Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Paul A Newman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 610, Greenbelt, MD, United States, John S Daniel, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Stefan Reimann, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland, Brad David Hall, Retired, Boulder, United States, Geoffrey S Dutton, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Lambert J. M. Kuijpers, Technical University Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Atmosphere-derived National Emissions of Ozone Depleting Substances and Substitutes for the United States (23293)
Lei Hu1,2, Stephen A Montzka3, John B Miller3,4, Arlyn Andrews5, Benjamin R Miller1,3, Scott Lehman6, Dave Godwin7, Kirk W Thoning8, Colm Sweeney3,9, Huilin Chen10, Marc Laurenz Fischer11, Sebastien Biraud12, Margaret S Torn13, Marikate Ellis Mountain14, Thomas Nehrkorn15, Janusz Eluszkiewicz15, Eri Saikawa16, Brad David Hall3, James W Elkins3 and Pieter P Tans3, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA/ESRL GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (5)NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (7)US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC, United States, (8)NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, (11)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (12)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (13)Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (14)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, United States, (15)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (16)Emory University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States