A new method for top-down quantification of methane and pollutant emissions from natural gas production

Caroline B Alden1,2, Kuldeep Prasad3, Subhomoy Ghosh3, Colm Sweeney4, Anna Karion5, Sean Coburn1, Robert Wright6, Ian Coddington7, Gar-Wing Truong8, Esther Baumann9, Kevin Cossel10, Nathan Newbury10 and Gregory B Rieker11, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (4)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, United States, (8)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder Laboratories, Boulder, United States, (10)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder Laboratories, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)University of Colorado at Boulder, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, United States