Using Unmanned Air Systems to Monitor Methane in the Atmosphere

• Main Authors: Clow, Jacqueline, Smith, Jeremy Christopher
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Environment Pollution; Aircraft Design; Testing and Performance; Arctic; Orion; Global warming; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20160003620

Methane is likely to be an important contributor to global warming, and our current knowledge of its sources, distributions, and transport is insufficient. It is estimated that there could be from 7.5 to 400 billion tons carbon-equivalent of methane in the arctic region, a broad range that is indica...