Intercomparison of atmospheric trace gas dispersion models: Barnett Shale case study.

ABSTRACT: Greenhouse gas emissions mitigation requires understanding the dominant processes controlling fluxes of these trace gases at increasingly finer spatial and temporal scales. Trace gas fluxes can be estimated using a variety of approaches that translate observed atmospheric species mole fractions into fluxes or emission rates, often identifying the spatial and temporal characteristics of the emission sources as well. Meteorological models are commonly combined with tracer dispersion models to estimate fluxes using an inverse approach that optimizes emissions to best fit the trace gas mole fraction observations. One way to evaluate the accuracy of atmospheric flux estimation methods is to compare results from independent methods, including approaches in which different meteorological and trac

SUBMITTER: Karion A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6605086 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature