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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-5787-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-5787-2022
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model description paper
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27 Jul 2022
Model description paper |
| 27 Jul 2022
| 27 Jul 2022
Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI 1.0): a user-friendly, cloud-based facility for inferring high-resolution methane emissions from TROPOMI satellite observations
Daniel J. Varon
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Daniel J. Jacob
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Melissa Sulprizio
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Lucas A. Estrada
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
William B. Downs
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Lu Shen
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Sarah E. Hancock
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Hannah Nesser
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Elise Penn
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Zichong Chen
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Alba Lorente
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, the Netherlands
Ashutosh Tewari
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, USA
Cynthia A. Randles
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey, USA
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- Urban methane emission monitoring across North America using TROPOMI data: an analytical inversion approach M. Hemati et al. 10.1038/s41598-024-58995-8
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- Global observational coverage of onshore oil and gas methane sources with TROPOMI M. Gao et al. 10.1038/s41598-023-41914-8
- Continuous weekly monitoring of methane emissions from the Permian Basin by inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations D. Varon et al. 10.5194/acp-23-7503-2023
- Assessing methane emissions from collapsing Venezuelan oil production using TROPOMI B. Nathan et al. 10.5194/acp-24-6845-2024
- Data driven analysis of atmospheric methane concentrations as function of geographic, land cover type and season C. Karoff & A. Vara-Vela 10.3389/feart.2023.1119977
- Evaluation of the methane full-physics retrieval applied to TROPOMI ocean sun glint measurements A. Lorente et al. 10.5194/amt-15-6585-2022
- CHEEREIO 1.0: a versatile and user-friendly ensemble-based chemical data assimilation and emissions inversion platform for the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model D. Pendergrass et al. 10.5194/gmd-16-4793-2023
- Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) 2.0: an improved research and stakeholder tool for monitoring total methane emissions with high resolution worldwide using TROPOMI satellite observations L. Estrada et al. 10.5194/gmd-18-3311-2025
- Landfill methane emission: a case study using inversion methods, satellite and CRDS-based observations T. Silva et al. 10.3389/feart.2025.1549385
- Methane emissions from China: a high-resolution inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations Z. Chen et al. 10.5194/acp-22-10809-2022
- Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins L. Shen et al. 10.5194/acp-22-11203-2022
- Quantifying Methane Emissions Using Satellite Data: Application of the Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) Model to Assess Danish Emissions A. Vara-Vela et al. 10.3390/rs16234554
- Satellite quantification of methane emissions from South American countries: a high-resolution inversion of TROPOMI and GOSAT observations S. Hancock et al. 10.5194/acp-25-797-2025
- Implementation of a satellite-based tool for the quantification of CH4 emissions over Europe (AUMIA v1.0) – Part 1: forward modelling evaluation against near-surface and satellite data A. Vara-Vela et al. 10.5194/gmd-16-6413-2023
- High-resolution greenhouse gas flux inversions using a machine learning surrogate model for atmospheric transport N. Dadheech et al. 10.5194/acp-25-5159-2025
2 citations as recorded by crossref.
- Urban methane emission monitoring across North America using TROPOMI data: an analytical inversion approach M. Hemati et al. 10.1038/s41598-024-58995-8
- Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane D. Jacob et al. 10.5194/acp-22-9617-2022
Latest update: 09 Jul 2025
Short summary
Reducing atmospheric methane emissions is critical to slow near-term climate change. Globally surveying satellite instruments like the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) have unique capabilities for monitoring atmospheric methane around the world. Here we present a user-friendly cloud-computing tool that enables researchers and stakeholders to quantify methane emissions across user-selected regions of interest using TROPOMI satellite observations.
Reducing atmospheric methane emissions is critical to slow near-term climate change. Globally...
