Major UK methane leak from space

PhD student Emily Dowd achieved the most-viewed BBC Science article on the BBC Website on 16/9/2023: Major UK methane greenhouse gas leak spotted from space.

The story relates to Emily's use of GHGSat satellite data to discover a natural gas leak from a pipeline near Cheltenham. This received widespread media attention and is now published on Atmos. Meas. Tech. (Dowd et al., 2024).

Dowd, E., A.J. Manning, B. Orth-Lashley, M. Girard, J. France, R.E. Fisher, D. Lowry, M. Lanoisellé, J.R. Pitt, K.M. Stanley, S. O'Doherty, D. Young, G. Thistlethwaite, M.P. Chipperfield, E. Gloor and C. Wilson, First validation of high-resolution satellite-derived methane emissions from an active gas leak in the UK, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 1599-1615, doi:10.5194/amt-17-1599-2024, 2024.