Publications and Presentations

Publications

Submitted

Chen, Z., D.J. Jacob, N. Balasus, H. Lin, and H. Nesser, African rice cultivation linked to growing methane, submitted to Nature Food, 2023.

Nesser, H., D.J. Jacob, J.D. Maasakkers, A. Lorente, Z. Chen, X. Lu, L. Shen, Z. Qu, M.P. Sulprizio, M. Winter, S. Ma, A. A. Bloom, J.R. Worden, R.N. Stavins, C.A. Randles, High-resolution U.S. methane emissions inferred from an inversion of 2019 TROPOMI satellite data: contributions from individual states, urban areas, and landfills, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-946, in review, 2023. [Link]

Pendergrass, D.C., D.J. Jacob, H. Nesser, D.J. Varon, M. Sulprizio, K. Miyazaki, and K.W. Bowman, CHEEREIO 1.0: a versatile and user-friendly ensemble-based chemical data assimilation and emissions inversion platform for the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-616, in review, 2023. [Link]

Balasus, N., D.J. Jacob, A. Lorente, J.D. Maasakkers, R.J. Parker, H. Boesch, Z. Chen, M.M. Kelp, H. Nesser, and D.J. Varon, A blended TROPOMI+GOSAT satellite data product for atmospheric methane using machine learning to correct retrieval biases, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-47, in review, 2023. [Link]

Peer reviewed

Varon, D.J., D.J. Jacob, B. Hmiel, R. Gautam, D.R. Lyon, M. Omara, M. Sulprizio, L. Shen, D. Pendergrass, H. Nesser, Z. Qu, Z.R. Barkley, N.L. Miles, S.J. Richardson, K.J. Davis, S. Pandey, X. Lu8, A. Lorente, T. Borsdorff, J.D. Maasakkers, and I. Aben, Continuous weekly monitoring of methane emissions from the Permian Basin by inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 7503–7520, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7503-2023, 2023. [Link]

Chen, Z., D.J. Jacob, R. Gautam, M. Omara, R.N. Stavins, R.C. Stowe, H. Nesser, M.P. Sulprizio, A. Lorente, D.J. Varon, X. Lu, L. Shen, Z. Qu, D.C. Pendergrass, and S. Hancock, Satellite quantification of methane emissions and oil/gas methane intensities from individual countries in the Middle East and North Africa: implications for climate action, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 5945–5967, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5945-2023, 2023. [Link]

Shen, L., R. Gautam, M. Omara, D. Zavala-Araiza, J.D. Maasakkers, T.R. Scarpelli, A. Lorente, D. Lyon, J. Sheng, D. Varon, H. Nesser, Z. Qu, X. Lu, M.P. Sulprizio, S.P. Hamburg, and D.J. Jacob, Satellite quantification of national emissions from oil/gas production in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 11203–11215, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11203-2022, 2022. [Link]

Chen, Z., D.J. Jacob, H. Nesser, M.P. Sulprizio, A . Lorente, D.J. Varon, X. Lu, L. Shen, Z. Qu, E. Penn, and X. Yu, Methane emissions from China: a high-resolution inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 10809–10826, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10809-2022, 2022. [Link]

Varon, D.J., D.J. Jacob, M. Sulprizio, L.A. Estrada, W.B. Downs, L. Shen, S.E. Hancock, H. Nesser, Z. Qu, E. Penn, Z. Chen, X. Lu, A. Lorente, A. Tewari, and C.A. Randles, Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI 1.0): A user-friendly, cloud-based facility for inferring high-resolution methane emissions from TROPOMI satellite observations, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 5787–5805, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-5787-2022, 2022. [Link]

Lu, X., D. J. Jacob, H. Wang, J.D. Maasakkers, Y. Zhang, T.R. Scarpelli, L. Shen, Z. Qu, M.P. Sulprizio, H. Nesser, A. A. Bloom, S. Ma, J.R. Worden, S. Fan, R. J. Parker, H. Boesch, R. Gautam, D. Gordon, M.D. Moran, F. Reuland, C.A.O. Villasana, and A. Andrews, Methane emissions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: Evaluation of national methane emission inventories and sectoral trends by inverse analysis of in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH4 ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) atmospheric observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 395-418, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-395-2022, 2022. [Link]

Qu, Z. D.J. Jacob, L. Shen, X. Lu, Y. Zhang, T.R. Scarpelli, H. Nesser, M.P. Sulprizio, J.D. Maasakkers, A.A. Bloom, J.R. Worden, R.J. Parker, and A.L. Delgado, Global distribution of methane emissions: a comparative inverse analysis of observations from the TROPOMI and GOSAT satellite instruments, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 14159-14175, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14159-2021, 2021. [Link]

Nesser, H., D.J. Jacob, J.D. Maasakkers, T.R. Scarpelli, M.P. Sulprizio, Y. Zhang, and C.H. Rycroft, Reduced-cost construction of Jacobian matrices for high- resolution inversions of satellite observations of atmospheric composition, Atm. Meas. Tech., 14, 5521–5534, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5521-2021, 2021. [Link]

Lu, X., D.J. Jacob, Y. Zhang, J.D. Maasakkers, M.P. Sulprizio, L. Shen, Z. Qu, T.R. Scarpelli, H. Nesser, R.M. Yantosca, J. Sheng, A. Andrews, R.J. Parker, H. Boesch, A.A. Bloom, S. Ma, Global methane budget and trend, 2010-2017: complementarity of inverse analyses using in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH4 ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 4637–4657, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4637-2021, 2021. [Link]

Maasakkers, J.D., D.J. Jacob, M.P. Sulprizio, T.R. Scarpelli, H. Nesser, J. Sheng, Y. Zhang, X. Lu, A.A. Bloom, K.W. Bowman, J.R. Worden, and R.J. Parker, 2010-2015 North American methane emissions, sectoral contributions, and trends: a high-resolution inversion of GOSAT satellite observations of atmospheric methane, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 4339–4356, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4339-2021, 2021. [Link]

Zhang, Y., P. Sadavarte, R. Gautam, M. Omara, J.D. Maasakkers, S. Pandey, D. Lyon, H. Nesser, M.P. Sulprizio, R. Zhang, S. Houweling, D. Zavala-Araiza, R.A. Alvarez, A.L. Delgado, S.P. Hamburg, I. Aben, and D.J. Jacob, Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil producing basin in the U.S. from space, Science Advances, 6, eaaz5120, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NWQGHU, 2020. [Link]

Maasakkers, J.D., D.J. Jacob, M.P. Sulprizio, T. Scarpelli, H. Nesser, J.-X. Sheng, Y. Zhang, M. Hersher, A.A. Bloom, K.W. Bowman, J.R. Worden, G. Janssens-Maenhout, and R.J. Parker, Global distribution of methane emissions, emission trends, and OH concentrations and trends inferred from an inversion of GOSAT satellite data for 2010-2015, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 7859-7881, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7859-2019, 2019. [Link]


Presentations

Invited

High-resolution U.S. methane emissions inferred from an inversion of 2019 TROPOMI satellite data: contributions from states, urban areas, and landfills, Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Leiden, Netherlands, June 10, 2023.

Reduced-rank inversion of TROPOMI methane observations to infer 2019 North American methane emissions at 0.25° ×0.3125° resolution: implications for urban emissions, GHGSat and C-CORE telecon, Remote, December 8, 2022.

Reduced-rank inversion of TROPOMI methane observations to infer 2019 North American methane emissions at 0.25° ×0.3125° resolution, Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) Flux telecon, Remote, July 27, 2022.

High-resolution 2019 North American methane emissions inferred from TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL's) Carbon Club seminar, Remote, February 17, 2021.

Decreasing the computational cost of analytic inversions of high-resolution satellite observations, Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Utrecht, Netherlands, June 11, 2019. [Link to slides]

Oral presentations

High-resolution U.S. methane emissions inferred from an inversion of 2019 TROPOMI satellite data: contributions from states, urban areas, and landfills, 19th International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measuremetns from Space (IWGGMS-19), Paris, France, July 6, 2023.

Quantification of methane flux uncertainties using optimal estimation, CEOS Side Meeting at the International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space (IWGGMS-19), Paris, France, July 3, 2023.

High-resolution 2019 North American methane emissions inferred from TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane, 10th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC10), St. Louis, MO, June 8, 2022.

Reduced-Cost Construction of Jacobian Matrices for High-Resolution Inversions of Satellite Observations of Atmospheric Composition, presentation at the North American Carbon Project (NACP) 7th Open Science Meeting, Remote, March 12, 2021. [Link to slides] [Link to recording]

Reduced-Cost Construction of Jacobian Matrices for High-Resolution Inverse Modeling, presentation at the 2020 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January 17, 2020. [Link to slides] [Link to recording]

Posters

High-resolution U.S. methane emissions inferred from an inversion of 2019 TROPOMI satellite data, World Meteorological Organization International Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2023.

High-resolution 2019 North American methane emissions inferred from TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane, NASA Carbon Monitoring System Science Team Meeting, Washington, DC, September 28, 2022.

High-resolution 2019 North American methane emissions inferred from TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane, 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, December 17, 2021. [Link to poster]

Reduced Cost Construction of Jacobian Matrices for High-Resolution Inverse Modeling, 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2019. [Link to poster]

Reduced-rank Jacobians: Decreasing the computational cost of high-resolution analytic inversions, 9th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC9), Cambridge, MA, May 7, 2019.