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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Coordinated satellite, aircraft, and ground-based observations of a large transient methane release.

Tai-Long He, Daniel J Varon, Shobha Kondragunta, Xinrong Ren, Mark D Cohen, Brian J Carroll, Nathan Malarich, Jeff Peischl, Tobias A de Jong, Jelmar Gerritsen and 10 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Coordinated satellite, aircraft, and ground-based observations of a large transient methane release.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Tai-Long HeInstitute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-7734-0076
Daniel J VaronInstitute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-3207-5731
Shobha KondraguntaCenter for Satellite Applications and Research, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD 20740.ORCID 0000-0001-8593-8046
Xinrong RenAir Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD 20740.ORCID 0000-0001-9974-1666
Mark D CohenAir Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD 20740.
Brian J CarrollCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309.ORCID 0000-0002-8706-7747
Nathan MalarichCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309.ORCID 0000-0002-1263-2190
Jeff PeischlCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309.ORCID 0000-0002-9320-7101
Tobias A de JongNetherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden 2333 CA, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5211-8081
Jelmar GerritsenNetherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden 2333 CA, The Netherlands.
Joannes D MaasakkersNetherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden 2333 CA, The Netherlands.
Daniel H CusworthCarbon Mapper, Inc., Pasadena, CA 91101.ORCID 0000-0003-0158-977X
Riley M DurenCarbon Mapper, Inc., Pasadena, CA 91101.
Steven S BrownChemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305.ORCID 0000-0001-7477-9078
Carsten WarnekeChemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305.ORCID 0000-0003-3811-8496
Colm SweeneyGlobal Monitoring Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80309.ORCID 0000-0002-4517-0797
Phillip StrattonAir Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD 20740.
Alan BrewerChemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305.
Sunil BaidarCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309.ORCID 0000-0002-9837-294X
Ezra J T LevinEnergy Institute, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.ORCID 0000-0001-7390-4877

Funding

DOC | NOAA | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) 1332KP24C0023UN | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) DTIE22-EN5036
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present the results of a Very Large Methane Release (VLMR) experiment evaluating methane retrievals from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) Advanced Baseline Imagers (ABIs) and multiple low-Earth-orbit satellite instruments with high point-source detection thresholds. The experiment coordinated observations of a US gas pipeline blowdown with nine satellites, an aircraft, and a truck-based mobile laboratory. We used the GOES-16, -18, and -19 ABIs with revisits every 10 min to 7 s to quantify release magnitude and associated uncertainty. Best methane retrieval precision of 7% was achieved in the 30-s mesoscale scan modes averaged to 5 min, yielding an estimated methane plume detection threshold of 15 to 30 t h

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methanepipeline blowdownrelease experimentremote sensingsatellites

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PMID42679031
PMCPMC13552872

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