Publications by authors named "Branko Kosovic"
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- Fire is a critical part of ecosystems and a tool used by humans, but changing fire patterns due to climate change are causing serious problems for health and infrastructure.
- The text emphasizes the need for collaborative and inclusive research efforts to address fire threats and to better understand both human and ecological systems.
- It advocates for a shift towards integrative and predictive approaches in fire science to foster innovation and improve resilience to increasing fire risks in the Anthropocene.
This study evaluates the efficacy of current satellite observing systems to detect methane point sources from typical oil and gas production (O&G) facilities using a novel very high-resolution methane concentration dataset generated using a microscale model. Transport and dispersion of typical methane emissions from seven well pads were simulated and the column enhancements for pseudo satellite pixel sizes of 3, 1, and 0.05 km were examined every second of the 2-h simulations (7200 realizations).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLarge-eddy simulations (LES) coupled to a model that simulates methane emissions from oil and gas production facilities are used to generate realistic distributions of meteorological variables and methane concentrations. These are sampled to obtain simulated observations used to develop and evaluate source term estimation (STE) methods. A widely used EPA STE method (OTM33A) is found to provide emission estimates with little bias when averaged over six time periods and seven well pads.
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