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Aircraft Data for Airborne Assessment of Methane Emissions from Offshore Platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

Creator:: Gorchov Negron, Alan M., Kort, Eric A., Conley, Stephen A., and Smith, Mackenzie L.
Description:: 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.
Keyword:: Methane Emissions, Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms, Airborne Measurements, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, and Gulf of Mexico
Citation to related publication:: 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
Discipline:: Science

Creator:: Kort, Eric A., Plant, Genevieve, Smith, Mackenzie L., Brandt, Adam R., Chen, Yuanlei, Gorchov Negron, Alan M., Schwietzke, Stefan, and Zavala-Araiza, Daniel
Description:: 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.
Keyword:: Offshore Oil & Gas, Flaring, Methane, and Nitrogen Oxides
Discipline:: Science

Creator:: Kort, Eric A., Plant, Genevieve, Brandt, Adam R., Chen, Yuanlei, Gorchov Negron, Alan M., Schwietzke, Stefan, Smith, Mackenzie L., and Zavala-Araiza, Daniel
Description:: 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.
Keyword:: Offshore Oil & Gas, Flaring, Methane, and Nitrogen Dioxides
Discipline:: Science

Creator:: Kort, Eric A., Plant, Genevieve, Brandt, Adam R., Chen, Yuanlei, Gorchov Negron, Alan M., and Smith, Mackenzie L.
Description:: 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.
Keyword:: Offshore Oil & Gas, Methane, Nitrogen Oxides, and Gulf of Mexico
Discipline:: Science