The Utah urban carbon dioxide (UUCON) and Uintah Basin greenhouse gas networks: instrumentation, data, and measurement uncertainty

Bares, Ryan; Mitchell, L.; Fasoli, Benjamin; Bowling, David R.; Catharine, Douglas; Garcia, Maria; Eng, Byron Kasey; Ehleringer, James R.; Lin, John C.

doi:10.5194/essd-11-1291-2019

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“…The analyzers take data every 10 seconds and are calibrated every three hours with reference gas cylinders traceable to the World Meteorological Organization scale. For more details regarding the measurement setup and instrument uncertainties, we refer the reader to Foster et al 10 and Bares et al 37 .…”

Section: Methods Tropomi Satellite Instrument Tropomi Is the Single mentioning

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Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States

Gouw

Veefkind

Roosenbrand

et al. 2020

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Production of oil and natural gas in NorthAmerica is at an all-time high due to the development and use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Methane emissions associated with this industrial activity are a concern because of the contribution to climate radiative forcing. We present new measurements from the space-based TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) launched in 2017 that show methane enhancements over production regions in the United States. In the Uintah Basin in Utah, tRopoMi methane columns correlated with in-situ measurements, and the highest columns were observed over the deepest parts of the basin, consistent with the accumulation of emissions underneath inversions. In the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico, methane columns showed maxima over regions with the highest natural gas production and were correlated with nitrogen-dioxide columns at a ratio that is consistent with results from in-situ airborne measurements. The improved detail provided by TROPOMI will likely enable the timely monitoring from space of methane emissions associated with oil and natural gas production.

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Section: Methods Tropomi Satellite Instrument Tropomi Is the Single mentioning

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Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States

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et al. 2020

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“…All stations monitor CO 2 concentrations, but some also record other gases (CO, CH 4 , NO x and O 3 ), stable isotopes and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). Instrumentation is detailed in Table 4 with QA/QC procedures described in Bares et al (2019). A similar suite of sensors affixed to UTA's light rail (UTA TRAX) system and a mobile lab (UNERD) measure emissions of trace gases and PM 2.5 in the urban core.…”

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“…Water supply and water quality research builds on this work to understand complexities in the supply of surface and drinking water across the montane to urban land-use gradient (Follstad Shah et al, 2019;Gabor et al, 2017;Hall et al, 2016;Jameel et al, 2016Jameel et al, , 2018. Meteorologic observations directly serve civic needs (Horel et al, 2002), while atmospheric science research focuses on elucidating the sources, drivers, fate and health impacts of air pollution, including emissions of CO 2 , fine particulate matter and combustion by-products (Bares et al, 2018(Bares et al, , 2019Fiorella et al, 2018;Fiorella et al, 2019;Gorski et al, 2015;Lin et al, 2018;Mallia et al, 2017;Moravek et al, 2019;Womack et al, 2019).…”

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The Wasatch Environmental Observatory: A mountain to urban research network in the semi‐arid westernUS

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Bowen

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The 2085 km 2 Jordan River Basin, and its seven sub-catchments draining the Central Wasatch Range immediately east of Salt Lake City, UT, are home to an array of hydrologic, atmospheric, climatic and chemical research infrastructure that collectively forms the Wasatch Environmental Observatory (WEO). WEO is geographically nested within a wildland to urban land-use gradient and built upon a strong foundation of over a century of discharge and climate records. A 2200 m gradient in elevation results in variable precipitation, temperature and vegetation patterns. Soil and subsurface structure reflect systematic variation in geology from granitic, intrusive to mixed sedimentary clastic across headwater catchments, all draining to the alluvial or colluvial sediments of the former Lake Bonneville. Winter snowfall and spring snowmelt control annual hydroclimate, rapid population growth dominates geographic change in lower elevations and urban gas and particle emissions contribute to episodes of severe air pollution in this closed-basin. Long-term hydroclimate observations across this diverse landscape provide the foundation for an expanding network of infrastructure in both montane and urban landscapes. Current infrastructure supports both basic and applied research in atmospheric chemistry, biogeochemistry, climate, ecology, hydrology, meteorology, resource management and urban redesign that is augmented through strong partnerships with cooperating agencies. These features allow WEO to serve as a unique natural laboratory for addressing research questions facing seasonally snow-covered, semi-arid regions in a rapidly changing world and an excellent facility for providing student education and research training.

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“…During the last three decades a lot of local work has examined the relationship between urbanisation and carbon emissions: Malaysia [Shahbaz et al, 2016], Turkey [Katircioğlu and Katircioğlu, 2018], African region [Al-Mulali et al, 2013;Salahuddin et al, 2019], developed countries [Liddle and Lung, 2010], developing countries [Martínez-Zarzoso and Maruotti , 2011;Sadorsky, 2014], Europe [Khoshnevis Yazdi and Shakouri , 2018], U.S. [Dogan and Turkekul , 2016], Japan [Ouyang and Lin, 2017], U.K. [Baiocchi and Minx , 2010]. Other studies have addressed different time scales: [Bares et al, 2019;Dhakal , 2009;Duren and Miller , 2012] for long-term emissions, [Patarasuk et al, 2016;Sargent et al, 2018] for shorter time scales and [Turnbull et al, 2015] on seasonal scales.…”

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On the impact of urbanisation on CO2 emissions

Luqman¹,

Rayner²,

Gurney³

2023

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We use a globally consistent, time-resolved data set of CO2 emission proxies to quantify urban CO2 emissions in 91 cities. We decompose emissiontrends into contributions from changes in urban extent, population density and per capita emissions. We find that urban CO2 emissions areincreasing everywhere but that the dominant contributors differ according to development level. A cluster analysis of factors shows that developingcountries were dominated by cities with rapid area and per capita CO2 emissions increases. Cities in the developed world, by contrast, show slow area and per capita CO2 emissions growth. China is an important intermediate case with rapid urban area growth combined with slower per capita CO2 emissions growth. For many developed countries, urban per capita emissions are often lower than their national average suggesting that urbanisation may reduce overall emissions. However trends in per capita urban emissions are higher than their national equivalent almost everywhere suggesting that urbanisation will become a more serious problem in future. An important exception is China whose per capita urban emissions are growing more slowly than the national value. We also see anegative correlation between trends in population density and per capita CO2 emissions, highlighting a strong role for densification as a tool toreduce CO2 emissions.

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The Utah urban carbon dioxide (UUCON) and Uintah Basin greenhouse gas networks: instrumentation, data, and measurement uncertainty

Cited by 20 publications

References 47 publications

Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States

Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States

The Wasatch Environmental Observatory: A mountain to urban research network in the semi‐arid westernUS

On the impact of urbanisation on CO2 emissions

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