E A Kort

Biographic Data

ID7992274
NAMEE A Kort
GIVEN NAMESE A
FAMILY NAMEKort
SIGNATUREKORT E A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0003-4940-7541
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Toward a satellite-based monitoring system for urban CO 2 emissions in support of global collective climate mitigation actions

    Open AccessTaylor Y Wilmot, John C Lin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Over the past decade, 1000s of cities have pledged reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. However, tracking progress toward these pledges has largely relied exclusively on activity-based, self-reported emissions inventories, which often underestimate emissions due to incomplete accounting. Furthermore, the lack of a consistent framework that may be deployed broadly, across political boundaries, hampers understanding of changes in both city-scale…

  • Measurement-based carbon intensity of US offshore oil and gas production

    Open AccessAlan M Gorchov Negron, E A Kort et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The United States (US) produces oil and gas from six offshore regions: the North Slope of Alaska, Cook Inlet in Alaska, offshore California, and three Gulf of Mexico (GOM) sub-regions: state shallow, federal shallow, and deep waters. Measurement-based assessment of direct greenhouse gas emissions from this production can provide real-world information on carbon emissions to inform decisions on current and future production. In evaluating the clim…

  • Methane remote sensing and emission quantification of offshore shallow water oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

    Open AccessAlana Ayasse, Andrew K Thorpe et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Offshore oil and natural gas platforms are responsible for about 30% of global oil and natural gas production. Despite the large share of global production there are few studies that have directly measured atmospheric methane emanating from these platforms. This study maps CH 4 emissions from shallow water offshore oil and gas platforms with an imaging spectrometer by employing a method to capture the sun glint reflection from the water directly …

  • A tale of two regions: Methane emissions from oil and gas production in offshore/onshore Mexico

    Open AccessDaniel Zavala‐Araiza, Mark Omara et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    We use atmospheric observations to quantify methane (CH 4 ) emissions from Mexico’s most important onshore and offshore oil and gas production regions which account for 95% of oil production and 78% of gas production. We use aircraft-based top-down measurements at the regional and facility-levels to determine emissions. Satellite data (TROPOMI CH 4 data and VIIRS night-time flare data) provide independent estimates of emissions over 2 years. Our …

  • Space-based quantification of per capita CO 2 emissions from cities

    Open AccessDien Wu, John C Lin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Urban areas are currently responsible for ∼70% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, and rapid ongoing global urbanization is increasing the number and size of cities. Thus, understanding city-scale CO 2 emissions and how they vary between cities with different urban densities is a critical task. While the relationship between CO 2 emissions and population density has been explored widely in prior studies, their conclusio…

  • Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

    Open AccessRamón A Alvarez, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza et al.ARTICLEScience2018

    A leaky endeavor Considerable amounts of the greenhouse gas methane leak from the U.S. oil and natural gas supply chain. Alvarez et al. reassessed the magnitude of this leakage and found that in 2015, supply chain emissions were ∼60% higher than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inventory estimate. They suggest that this discrepancy exists because current inventory methods miss emissions that occur during abnormal operating conditions. The…

  • Reducing errors in aircraft atmospheric inversion estimates of point-source emissions: The Aliso Canyon natural gas leak as a natural tracer experiment

    Open AccessSharon Gourdji, Vineet Yadav et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Urban greenhouse gas (GHG) flux estimation with atmospheric measurements and modeling, i.e. the ‘top-down’ approach, can potentially support GHG emission reduction policies by assessing trends in surface fluxes and detecting anomalies from bottom-up inventories. Aircraft-collected GHG observations also have the potential to help quantify point-source emissions that may not be adequately sampled by fixed surface tower-based atmospheric observing s…

  • Methane Leaks from North American Natural Gas Systems

    Open AccessAdam R Brandt, Garvin Heath et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    Methane emissions from U.S. and Canadian natural gas systems appear larger than official estimates.