Imperial College London
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DrHeatherGraven

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Reader in Climate Physics
 
 
 
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@article{Saboya:2022:10.5194/acp-22-3595-2022,
author = {Saboya, E and Zazzeri, G and Graven, H and Manning, AJ and Michel, SE},
doi = {10.5194/acp-22-3595-2022},
journal = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics},
pages = {3595--3613},
title = {Continuous CH4 and delta(CH4)-C-13 measurements in London demonstrate under-reported natural gas leakage},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3595-2022},
volume = {22},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Top-down greenhouse gas measurements can be used to independently assess the accuracy of bottom-up emission estimates. We report atmospheric methane (CH4) mole fractions and δ13CH4 measurements from Imperial College London from early 2018 onwards using a Picarro G2201-i analyser. Measurements from March 2018 to October 2020 were compared to simulations of CH4 mole fractions and δ13CH4 produced using the NAME (Numerical Atmospheric-dispersion Modelling Environment) dispersion model coupled with the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory, UK NAEI, and a global inventory, the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), with model spatial resolutions of ∼ 2, ∼ 10, and ∼ 25 km. Simulation–measurement comparisons are used to evaluate London emissions and the source apportionment in the global (EDGAR) and UK national (NAEI) emission inventories. Observed mole fractions were underestimated by 30 %–35 % in the NAEI simulations. In contrast, a good correspondence between observations and EDGAR simulations was seen. There was no correlation between the measured and simulated δ13CH4 values for either NAEI or EDGAR, however, suggesting the inventories' sectoral attributions are incorrect. On average, natural gas sources accounted for 20 %–28 % of the above background CH4 in the NAEI simulations and only 6 %–9 % in the EDGAR simulations. In contrast, nearly 84 % of isotopic source values calculated by Keeling plot analysis (using measurement data from the afternoon) of individual pollution events were higher than −45 ‰, suggesting the primary CH4 sources in London are actually natural gas leaks. The simulation–observation comparison of CH4 mole fractions suggests that total emissions in London are much higher than the NAEI estimate (0.04 Tg CH4 yr−1) but close to, or slightly lo
AU  - Saboya,E
AU  - Zazzeri,G
AU  - Graven,H
AU  - Manning,AJ
AU  - Michel,SE
DO  - 10.5194/acp-22-3595-2022
EP  - 3613
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 1680-7316
SP  - 3595
TI  - Continuous CH4 and delta(CH4)-C-13 measurements in London demonstrate under-reported natural gas leakage
T2  - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3595-2022
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UR  - https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/3595/2022/
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/96288
VL  - 22
ER  -
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