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Research article
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01 Oct 2019
Research article |
| 01 Oct 2019
| 01 Oct 2019
Quantifying CH4 emissions from hard coal mines using mobile sun-viewing Fourier transform spectrometry
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Ralph Kleinschek
Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Leon Scheidweiler
Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Sara Defratyka
Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE-IPSL) CEA-CNRS-UVSQ Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Mila Stanisavljevic
AGH – University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Andreas Forstmaier
Environmental Sensing and Modeling (ESM), Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany
Alexandru Dandocsi
National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics (INOE2000), Măgurele, Romania
Sebastian Wolff
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Darko Dubravica
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe, Germany
Norman Wildmann
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Julian Kostinek
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Patrick Jöckel
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Anna-Leah Nickl
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Theresa Klausner
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Frank Hase
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe, Germany
Matthias Frey
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe, Germany
Environmental Sensing and Modeling (ESM), Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany
Florian Dietrich
Environmental Sensing and Modeling (ESM), Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany
Jarosław Nȩcki
AGH – University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Justyna Swolkień
AGH – University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Andreas Fix
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Anke Roiger
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
André Butz
Institut für Umweltphysik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Latest update: 30 Jun 2025
Short summary
Methane ventilated from hard coal mines in the Upper Silesian
Coal Basin in Poland is measured with a mobile Fourier transform spectrometer EM27/SUN. The instrument was mounted on a truck driving in stop-and-go patterns downwind of the methane sources. The emissions are estimated with the cross-sectional flux method. Calculated emissions are in broad agreement with the E-PRTR database. Wind-related errors on the methane estimates dominate the error budget and typically amount to 20 %.
Methane ventilated from hard coal mines in the Upper Silesian
Coal Basin in Poland is measured...
