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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3833-2017
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3833-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
19 Oct 2017
Research article |
| 19 Oct 2017
Airborne DOAS retrievals of methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor concentrations at high spatial resolution: application to AVIRIS-NG
Andrew K. Thorpe
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Christian Frankenberg
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
David R. Thompson
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Riley M. Duren
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Andrew D. Aubrey
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Brian D. Bue
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Robert O. Green
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Konstantin Gerilowski
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Thomas Krings
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Jakob Borchardt
Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Eric A. Kort
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Colm Sweeney
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Stephen Conley
Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Scientific Aviation, 3335 Airport Road, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Dar A. Roberts
Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Philip E. Dennison
Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Video supplement
Video showing methane plume from tank obtained using ground-based thermal camera A. Thorpe and J. Krohn https://doi.org/10.5446/30884
Video showing methane plume from buried natural gas pipeline obtained using ground-based thermal camera A. Thorpe and J. Krohn https://doi.org/10.5446/30883
Short summary
At local scales emissions of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are highly uncertain. The AVIRIS-NG imaging spectrometer maps large regions and generates high-spatial-resolution CH4 and CO2 concentration maps from anthropogenic and natural sources. Examples include CH4 from a processing plant, tank, pipeline leak, seep, mine vent shafts, and CO2 from power plants. This demonstrates a greenhouse gas monitoring capability that targets the two dominant anthropogenic climate-forcing agents.
At local scales emissions of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are highly uncertain. The...
