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Mapping urban pipeline leaks: Methane leaks across Boston

Mapping urban pipeline leaks: Methane leaks across Boston

Full Title:  Mapping urban pipeline leaks: Methane leaks across Boston
Author(s):  Nathan G. Phillips, Robert Ackley, Eric R. Crosson, Adrian Down, Lucy R. Hutyra, Max Brondfield, Jonathan D. Karr, Kaiguang Zhao, Robert B. Jackson
Publisher(s):  Elsevier Ltd
Publication Date: November 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):

Natural gas is the largest source of anthropogenic emissions of methane (CH4) in the United States. To assess pipeline emissions across a major city, we mapped CH4 leaks across all 785 road miles in the city of Boston using a cavity-ring-down mobile CH4 analyzer.

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