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Czepiel et al. 1996
Czepiel, P.M., Mosher, B., Harriss, R.C., Shorter, J.H., McManus, J.B., Kolb, C.E., Allwine, E. and Lamb, B.K. (1996). Landfill methane emissions measured by enclosure and atmospheric tracer methods. Journal of Geophysical Research 101: doi: 10.1029/96JD00864. issn: 0148-0227.

Methane (CH4) emissions were measured from the Nashua, New Hampshire municipal landfill using static enclosure and atmospheric tracer methods. The spatial variability of emissions was also examined using geostatistical methods. One hundred and thirty nine enclosure measurements were performed on a regular grid pattern over the emitting surface of the landfill resulting in an estimate of whole landfill emissions of 15,800 L CH4 min-1. Omnidirectional variograms displayed spatial correlation among CH4 fluxes below a separation distance of 7 m. Eleven tracer tests, using sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) as a tracer gas, resulted in a mean emissions estimate of 17,750 L CH4 min-1. The favorable agreement between the emission estimates was further refined using the observed relationship between atmospheric pressure and CH4 flux. This resulted in a pressure-corrected tracer flux estimate of whole landfill emissions of 16,740 L CH4 min-1. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1996

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Geochemical cycles, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Biosphere/atmosphere interactions, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Pollution—urban and regional, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Troposphere—composition and chemistry
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