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Methane remote sensing and emission quantification of offshore shallow water oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

August 2022
Alana K Ayasse, Andrew K Thorpe, Daniel H Cusworth, Eric A Kort, Alan Gorchov Negron, Joseph Heckler, Gregory Asner, and Riley M Duren
Environmental Research Letters
This study shows how remote sensing with imaging spectrometers and glint targeting can be used to efficiently observe offshore infrastructure, quantify methane emissions, and attribute those emissions to specific infrastructure types.Read More →

Unprecedented Heatwave in Western North America during Late June of 2021: Roles of Atmospheric Circulation and Global Warming

July 2022
Chunzai Wang, Jiayu Zheng, Wei Lin & Yuqing Wang
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This study concludes that models show that greenhouse gases are the main reason for the long-term increase of average daily maximum temperature in western North America in the past and future.Read More →

U.S. Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuels at Risk of Worsening in 2022, Extending 2021 Trend

June 2022
Kayrros
Kayrros
This report indicates that U.S. methane emissions appear to be at risk of significantly increasing in 2022.Read More →

Changing Hydrographic, Biogeochemical, and Acidification Properties in the Gulf of Maine as Measured by the Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series, GNATS, Between 1998 and 2018

June 2022
William M. Balch, David T. Drapeau, Bruce C. Bowler, Nicholas R. Record, Nicholas R. Bates, Sunny Pinkham, Rebecca Garley, Catherine Mitchell
JGR: Biogeosciences
This study covers physical, chemical, biological, biogeochemical, and bio-optical changes in the Gulf of Maine.Read More →

Escalating carbon emissions from North American boreal forest wildfires and the climate mitigation potential of fire management

April 2022
Carly A. Phillips, Brendan M. Rogers, Molly Elder, Sol Cooperdock, Michael Moubarak, James T. Randerson, Peter C. Frumhoff
ScienceAdvances
This study shows that wildfires in boreal North America could, by mid-century, contribute to a cumulative net source of nearly 12 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.Read More →

Climate change will increase aflatoxin presence in US Corn

April 2022
Jina Yu, David A Hennessy, Jesse Tack, and Felicia Wu
Environmental Research Letters
This study models aflatoxin risk as a function of corn plant growth stages and weather to predict US regions with high aflatoxin risk in 2031–2040, based on 16 climate change models.Read More →

Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites

April 2022
Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, David R. Lyon, Benjamin Hmiel, Katherine A. Roberts & Steven P. Hamburg
Nature Communications
This study finds that low production oil and gas well sites are a disproportionately large source of US oil and gas well site methane emissions.Read More →

Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change

April 2022
Kevin A. Reed, Michael F. Wehner & Colin M. Zarzycki
Nature Communications
This study quantifies the impact of human-induced climate change on the extreme 3-hourly storm rainfall rates and extreme 3-day accumulated rainfall amounts during the full 2020 hurricane season.Read More →

State of the Climate: New Jersey 2021

April 2022
James Shope, Anthony Broccoli, Brian Frei, Mathieu Gerbush, Jeanne Herb, Marjorie Kaplan, Erica Langer, Lucas Marxen, David Robinson
Rutgers
This report summarizes annually updated scientific information on climate trends and projections that can be used by state and local decision-makers, researchers, hazard planning and climate resilience professionals, and residents.Read More →

Quantifying Regional Methane Emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin with a Comprehensive Aerial Survey

March 2022
Yuanlei Chen, Evan D. Sherwin, Elena S.F. Berman, Brian B. Jones, Matthew P. Gordon, Erin B. Wetherley, Eric A. Kort, and Adam R. Brandt
Environmental Science and Technology
This study employs a comprehensive aerial survey to estimate the regional methane emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin.Read More →

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