A33C:
Emissions of Atmospheric Pollutants from Oil, Gas, and Coal Operations I


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Session ID#: 58320

Session Description:
Fossil fuel combustion has a known impact on climate and air quality. Recent measurements have uncovered that supply chain activities (e.g., production, processing, storage, transportation, and distribution) may also play a large role in the life cycle climate and air quality effects of these fossil fuels. As a result, several jurisdictions have announced pledges and regulations at national and sub-national levels with the goal of reducing emissions of criteria air pollutants, toxics, and greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. However, these emissions and their subsequent impacts on air quality are often poorly understood. Recent field campaigns, new remote sensing observations, and robust emissions inventory efforts continue to transform scientific understanding of upstream activities, but the variability across estimates remains unresolved. We call for submissions that reconcile bottom-up and top-down emissions estimates, quantify air quality effects, and/or explore the life cycle climate impacts of supply chain emissions from these fossil fuel activities.
Primary Convener:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Sarah Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, United States, Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Ralf M Staebler, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Scot M Miller, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Chairs:  Ralf M Staebler, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada and Scot M Miller, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Global Gridded Inventory of Methane Emissions from Fuel Exploitation including Oil, Gas, and Coal (423773)
Tia Scarpelli1, Daniel J. Jacob2, Joannes Maasakkers3, Jian-Xiong Sheng3, Kelly Rose4, Melissa Payer Sulprizio2 and John Worden5, (1)Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, United States, (2)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)National Energy Technology Laboratory, Albany, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
An Estimate of U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Supply Chain Methane Emissions Based on a Synthesis of Facility-scale Measurements (453956)
David Richard Lyon, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, Ramon Alvarez, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, United States, Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Mark Omara, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States and Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States
Methane Inventory Trends in the Canadian Oil and Gas Sector: Are Reported Venting Trends Reliable? (461141)
Matthew Johnson, Carleton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada and David R Tyner, PhD, Carleton University, Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Summary of Results from the NOAA Shale Oil and Natural Gas Nexus (SONGNEX) Study (452091)
Joost A de Gouw1, Carsten Warneke2, Michael Trainer3, Jeff Peischl4, Thomas B Ryerson5, Chelsea R Thompson6, Kyle J Zarzana7, Steven S Brown8, Abigail Koss9, Bin Yuan10, Jessica Gilman2, Brian M Lerner11, Travis Wade Tokarek12, Alan Gorchov Negron13, Joep de Bruin14, Brian C McDonald2, Pieternel Levelt14, Joris P Veefkind15 and Tim Vlemmix16, (1)University of Colorado Boulder - CIRES, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)Chemical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder & NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)Scientific Aviation, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of Colorado Boulder, Chemistry & CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Jinan University, College of Environment and Climate, Guangzhou, China, (11)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (12)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (13)Brown University, Providence, United States, (14)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (15)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands, (16)Technical University Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Rolling Coal: The Environmental Impacts of Coal Rail Transport for Electricity Generation (351812)
John Gregory Sherwood1, Robert Bickhart2, Emily Murawski2, Zemin Dhanani2, Blake Lytle2, Patricia Carbajales-Dale2 and Michael Carbajales-Dale2, (1)Clemson University, Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States, (2)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
Fractional methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure in urban domains in the Eastern United States using airborne measurements and Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Modeling (407828)
Cody R Floerchinger1, Steven C Wofsy2, Kristian Daniel Hajny3, Colm Sweeney4, Timothy Newberger5, Eric A Kort6, Genevieve Plant6, Alexander Gvakharia6 and Paul B Shepson7, (1)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, (4)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)Purdue University, Departments of Chemistry, and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Emission Inventory Development and Projections for the Transforming Mexican Energy Sector (Invited) (374349)
Elena McDonald-Buller1, Greg Yarwood2, John Grant2, Gary McGaughey3, Tejas Shah2, Lynsey Karen Parker2 and Rajashi Parikh2, (1)Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Ramboll, Novato, CA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Flare-Generated Black Carbon: Measurements of Mass Absorption Cross-section and Implications of Observed Sensitivity to Flaring Conditions (439623)
Bradley Mark Conrad, Carleton University, Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL), Ottawa, ON, Canada, Amy Melina Jefferson, Carleton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Brian M Crosland, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Matthew Johnson, Carleton University, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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