Objectives
The OAR and NESDIS strategy encompasses four principal research objectives:
- Leverage a tiered, integrated observing system consisting of light and heavy aircraft providing comprehensive airborne surveys; satellite- and aircraft-based remote sensing; and ground-based long- and short-term observations for comprehensive, accurate understanding of methane and air pollutants
- Evaluate civilian and commercial spaceborne remote-sensing methods for the detection and quantification of methane and other pollutants from diverse source sectors with a wide dynamic range of emissions using a methodology consistent with current standards and definitions
- Quantify methane and co-emitted air pollutant emissions and air quality impacts in the O&G sector and urban areas in support of evaluating and improving inventories (e.g. EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory (GHGI) and NOAA-NIST Greenhouse Gas And Air Pollutants Emissions System (GRA2PES)) and providing cities and states relevant information to assist in attaining air quality standards