Publications

2019

Schwietzke, S., Harrison, M., Lauderdale, T., Branson, K., Conley, S., George, F. C., Jordon, D., Jersey, G. R., Zhang, C., Mairs, H. L., Pétron, G., and Schnell, R. C.: Aerially-guided leak detection and repair: a pilot field study for evaluating the potential of methane emission detection and cost-effectiveness, J. Air Waste Manag. Assoc., 69, 71 – 88, 2019.

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Xueying Yu,  D. B. Millet,  K. C. Wells,  T. J. Griffis,  Xin Chen,  J. M. Baker, S. A. Conley,  M. L. Smith,  A. Gvakharia,  E. A. Kort,  G. Plant,  J. D. Wood: Top‐down Constraints on Methane Point Source Emissions from Animal Agriculture and Waste Based on New Airborne Measurements in the US Upper Midwest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2019.

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2017

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.

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Smith, M. L.
, Gvakharia, A., Kort, E. A., Sweeney, C., Conley, S. A., Faloona, I., Newberger, T., Schnell, R., Schwietzke, S., and Wolter, S.: Airborne quantification of methane emissions over the Four Corners Region, Environ. Sci. Technol., 51, 5832 – 5837, 2017.

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Johnson, M. R., Tyner, D. R., Conley, S., Schwietzke, S., and Zavala-Araiza, D.: Comparisons of airborne measurements and inventory estimates of methane emissions in the Alberta upstream oil and gas sector, Environ. Sci. Technol., 51, 13008 – 13017, 2017.

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2016

Conley, S., Franco, G., Faloona, I., Blake, D. R., Peischl, J., Ryerson, T. B.: Methane emissions from the 2015 Aliso Canyon blowout in Los Angeles, CA, Science, 351, 1317 – 1320, 2016.

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Peischl, J., Karion, A., Sweeney, C., Kort, E. A., Smith, M. L., Brandt, A. R., Yeskoo, T., Aikin, K. C., Conley, S. A., Gvakharia, A., Trainer, M., Wolter, S., and Ryerson, T. B.: Quantifying atmospheric methane emissions from oil and gas production in the Bakken shale region of North Dakota, J. Geophys. Res., 121, 6101 – 6111, 2016.

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2015

Smith, M. L., Kort, E. A., Karion, A., Sweeney, C., Herndon, S. C., and Yacovitch, T. I.: Airborne ethane observations in the Barnett Shale: quantification of ethane flux and attribution of methane emissions, Environ. Sci. Technol., 49, 8158 – 8166, 2015.

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Karion, A., Sweeny. C., Kort, E. A., Shepson, P. B., Brewer, A., Cambaliza, M., Conley, S. A., Davis, K., Deng, A., Hardesty, M., Herndon, S. C., Lauvaux, T., Lavoie, T., Lyon, D., Newberger, T., Pétron, G., Rella, C., Smith, M., Wolter, S., Yacovitch, T. I., Tans, P.: Aircraft-based estimate of total methane emissions from the Barnett Shale Region, Environ. Sci. Technol., 49, 8124 – 8131, 2015.

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2014

Conley, S. A., Faloona, I. C., Lenschow, D. H., Karion, A., and Sweeney, C.: A low-cost system for measuring horizontal winds from single-engine aircraft, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 31, 1312 – 1320, 2014.

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2013

Karion, A., Sweeney, C., Pétron, G., Frost, G., Hardesty, R. M., Kofler, J., Miller, B. R., Newberger, T., Wolter, S., Banta, R., Brewer, A., Dlugokencky, E., Lang, P., Monztka, S. A., Schnell, R., Tans, P., Trainer, M., Zamora, R., and Conley, S.: Methane emissions estimate from airborne measurements over a western United States natural gas field, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 4393 – 4397, 2013.

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