airborne sensing
; atmospheric transport
; climate modeling
; emission
; emission inventory
; experimental study
; greenhouse gas
; measurement method
; methane
; seasonal variation
; source apportionment
; stochasticity
; weather forecasting
; California
; San Francisco Bay
; San Joaquin Valley
; United States
DE-AC02-05CH11231"The authors gratefully recognize the support and partnership of H211 LLC, with particular thanks to K. Ambrose, R. Simone, B. Quiambao, J. Lee, and R. Fisher. Technical contributions from W. Gore, A. Trias, M. Roby, Z. Young, E. Quigley, R. Walker, R. Belme, and L. Sharma made this project possible. We would also like to acknowledge the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Global Modeling Division—Carbon Cycle Group for producing the Greenhouse Gas Marine Boundary Layer Reference data. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High-End Computing Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at NASA Ames Research Center. X. Xi is supported by the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the NASA Ames Research Center, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities through a contract with NASA. Efforts by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory employees were supported by the University of California, the California Energy Commission, and the California Air Resources Board under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231. All the authors express gratitude to the support from the NASA's Earth Science Division at Ames Research Center. The views, opinions, and findings contained in this report are those of the authors and should not be construed as an official NASA or United States Government position, policy, or decision. In accordance with the data policy of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, the AJAX data used during this study are available upon request to the corresponding author (matthew.s.johnson@nasa.gov). Finally, the authors would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their useful comments which greatly improved the manuscript.
Earth Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States; Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; Now at the Climate Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Recommended Citation:
Johnson M.S.,Xi X.,Jeong S.,et al. Investigating seasonal methane emissions in Northern California using airborne measurements and inverse modeling[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,2016-01-01,121(22)