NASA is Mapping Giant Clouds of Methane Released by 'Super-Emitters' Across the World - by spacewriter
The cube shows methane plumes over super-emitters in Turkmenistan. The rainbow colors are the spectral fingerprints from corresponding spots in the front image. The blue line in the graph shows the methane fingerprint EMIT detected; the red line is the expected fingerprint based on an atmospheric simulation. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The flow rates of gas into the atmosphere from these sites are dismaying. In the Permian basin, the flow rate is 18,300 kilograms per hour. The Turkmenistan plumes are sending 50,400 kilograms per hour in total into the atmosphere. That’s roughly similar to a gas leak in the 2015 Aliso Canyon event in California. It sent 50,000 kilograms per hour into the air at various times and was among the largest methane releases in U.S. history.
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