California methane plume detected by airborne spectrometer
NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology
Nearly a million aerial measurements of the powerful greenhouse gas show that far more methane is leaking from major U.S. oil and gas regions than current estimates suggest.
“In our study, we used the largest dataset ever collected,” he says. evan sherwin He conducted research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California while a student at Stanford University.
He and his colleagues combined data from numerous aerial surveys that used infrared sensors to measure methane leaking from wells and pipelines.
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