Quantitative airborne assessment of gas flaring combustion efficiency in the Bakken Shale

Alexander Gvakharia1, Eric A Kort1, Colm Sweeney2, Jeff Peischl3, Thomas B Ryerson4, Adam R Brandt5 and Mackenzie Lynn Smith6, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States