As part of the Measurement of Agriculture Illuminating farm-Zone Emissions of N2O (MAIZE) project, in 2021 the aircraft platform sampled the agriculture regions of Nebraska and Iowa. Vertical profiles were conducted on each flight to capture the vertical structure and mixing depths of the atmosphere. The data files contains the merged data for each individual file day.
Gvakharia A, Kort EA, Smith M, Conley S, Testing and evaluation of a new airborne system for continuous N2O, CO2, CO, and H2O measurements: the Frequent Calibration High-performance Airborne Observation System (FCHAOS), Atmos. Meas. Tech. 11, 6059-6074, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6059-2018, 2018, Conley S, Faloona I.C, Lenschow D.H, Karion A, Sweeney S, (2014) A low-cost system for measuring horizontal winds from single-engine aircraft, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 31(6), 1312-1320, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00143.1, Airborne measurements reveal high spatiotemporal variation and the heavy-tail characteristic of nitrous oxide emissions in Iowa" by Natasha Dacic, Genevieve Plant, and Eric A Kort. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Submitted., and 2022 dataset: Kort, E. A., Plant, G., Dacic, N. (2024). Aircraft Data (2022) for Measurement of Agriculture Illuminating farm-Zone Emissions of N2O (MAIZE) [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/tmfd-nw87
As part of the Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL) project, in 2022 the aircraft measurement platform sampled offshore oil & gas facilities in the US Gulf of Mexico to quantify facility-level emissions using the approach detailed in Conley et al. (2017). Vertical profiles were conducted on each flight to capture the vertical structure and mixing depths of the atmosphere. The data file contains all merged flight data from each flight day.
Reference: Conley, S., Faloona, I., Mehrotra, S., Suard, M., Lenschow, D. H., Sweeney, C., Herndon, S., Schwietzke, S., Pétron, G., Pifer, J., Kort, E. A., and Schnell, R.: Application of Gauss’s theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3345 – 3358, 2017.
As part of the Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL) project, the aircraft measurement platform sampled downwind of flares in the Permian and Eagle Ford regions of Texas (2020) and the Bakken in North Dakota (2021). Estimates of methane destruction removal efficiency are calculated for each airborne intercept of a flare combustion plume based on the observed enhancements of carbon dioxide and methane, along with assumptions about the flare gas composition. Locations provided are the GPS coordinates for the aircraft sampling, not of the upwind flare infrastructure on the ground. Attempts to link the airborne sampling locations to ground infrastructure using the provided wind information (measured at the aircraft), should take care to account for complexities of transport in the atmosphere.
Plant, G., Kort, E. A., Brandt, A. R., Chen, Y., Fordice, G., Gorchov Negron, A. M., Schwietzke, S., Smith, M., & Zavala-Araiza, D. (2022). Inefficient and unlit natural gas flares both emit large quantities of methane. Science, 377(6614), 1566–1571. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq0385, Kort, E. A., Plant, G., Smith, M. L., Brandt, A. R., Chen, Y., Gorchov Negron, A. M., Schwietzke, S., Zavala-Araiza, D. (2022). Aircraft Data (2020) for Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL), University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/1xjm-3v49, and Kort, E. A., Plant, G., Brandt, A. R., Chen, Y., Gorchov Negron, A. M., Schwietzke, S., Smith, M. L., Zavala-Araiza, D. (2022). Aircraft Data (2021) for Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL), University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/6tgq-e116
As part of the Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL) project, in 2021 the aircraft measurement platform sampled offshore oil & gas facilities in Alaska and California to quantify facility-level emissions using the approach detailed in Conley et al. (2017). Onshore, the aircraft sampled downwind of flare combustion plumes in the Bakken region of North Dakota. Vertical profiles were conducted on each flight to capture the vertical structure and mixing depths of the atmosphere. The data file contains all merged flight data from each flight day. and Reference: Conley, S., Faloona, I., Mehrotra, S., Suard, M., Lenschow, D. H., Sweeney, C., Herndon, S., Schwietzke, S., Pétron, G., Pifer, J., Kort, E. A., and Schnell, R.: Application of Gauss’s theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3345 – 3358, 2017.
As part of the Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL) project, in 2020 the aircraft measurement platform sampled offshore oil & gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico to quantify facility-level emissions using the approach detailed in Conley et al. (2017). Onshore, the aircraft sampled downwind of flare combustion plumes in the Permian and Eagle Ford regions of Texas. Vertical profiles were conducted on each flight to capture the vertical structure and mixing depths of the atmosphere. The data file contains all merged flight data from each flight day. and Reference: Conley, S., Faloona, I., Mehrotra, S., Suard, M., Lenschow, D. H., Sweeney, C., Herndon, S., Schwietzke, S., Pétron, G., Pifer, J., Kort, E. A., and Schnell, R.: Application of Gauss’s theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3345 – 3358, 2017.
This data-set contains data used in the publication "Airborne Assessment of Methane Emissions from Offshore Platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico" by Gorchov Negron et al. (2020). There are 46,032 rows and 45 columns in the data. and The aircraft sampled offshore facilities with two unique sampling strategies: facility-level samples and regional box samples. Gorchov Negron et al. used facility-level samples to calculate facility-level fluxes and regional box samples, in conjunction with vertical profiles, to calculate regional-level fluxes. Meteorological parameters in the data were evaluated to discern when assumptions for each method were met. The facility-level fluxes were used to generate a facility-level aerial measurement-based inventory that was scaled up for comparison with regional-level fluxes.
Alan M. Gorchov Negron, Eric A. Kort, Stephen A. Conley, Mackenzie L. Smith. "Airborne Assessment of Methane Emissions from Offshore Platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico". Environ. Sci. Technol. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c00179
Data collected by Mooney aircraft over Houston and Denver in Summer 2020. Flights typically were designed to measure within the boundary layer in a raster pattern perpendicular to wind direction, thus sampling the urban plume repeatedly. Vertical profiles are conducted on each flight to capture the vertical structure and mixing depths of the atmosphere. The data file contains all merged flight data from each flight day.