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| Journal Article | FZJ-2024-04753 |
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2024
EGU
Katlenburg-Lindau
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.5194/acp-24-4875-2024 doi:10.34734/FZJ-2024-04753
Abstract: China stands out as a major contributor to anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions, with coal mine methane (CMM) playing a crucial role. To control and reduce CH4 emissions, China has made a dedicated commitment and formulated an ambitious mitigation plan. To verify the progress made, the consistent acquisition of independent CH4 emission data is required. This paper aims to implement a wind-assigned anomaly method for the precise determination of regional-scale CMM emissions within the coal-rich Shanxi province. We use the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) CH4 observations from May 2018 to May 2023, coupled with ERA5 wind and a bottom-up inventory dataset based on the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Tier 2 approach covering the Changzhi, Jincheng, and Yangquan regions of the Shanxi province. The derived emission strengths are 8.4x10^26 molec. s-1 (0.706 Tg yr-1, +/-25 %), 1.4x10^27 molec. s-1 (1.176 Tg yr-1, +/-20 %), and 4.9x10^26 molec. s-1 (0.412 Tg yr-1, +/-21 %), respectively. Our results exhibit biases of -18 %, 8 %, and 14 %, respectively, when compared to the IPCC Tier 2 bottom-up inventory. Larger discrepancies are found when comparing the estimates to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) and Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGARv7.0) inventories (64 %–176 %), suggesting that the two inventories may be overestimating CH4 emissions from the studied coal mining regions. Our estimates provide a comprehensive characterization of the regions within the Shanxi province, contribute to the validation of emission inventories, andprovide additional insights into CMM emission mitigation.
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