Facility-scale inventory of dairy methane emissions in California: implications for mitigation

Marklein, Alison R.; Meyer, Deanne; Fischer, Marc L.; Jeong, Seongeun; Rafiq, Talha; Carr, Michelle; Hopkins, Francesca M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1151-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1151-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1151-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

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22 Mar 2021

Data description paper |

| 22 Mar 2021

Facility-scale inventory of dairy methane emissions in California: implications for mitigation

Alison R. Marklein, Deanne Meyer, Marc L. Fischer, Seongeun Jeong, Talha Rafiq, Michelle Carr, and Francesca M. Hopkins

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Dairy cow farms produce half of California's (CA) methane (CH₄) emissions. Current CH₄ emission inventories lack regional variation in management and are inadequate to assess CH₄ mitigation measures. We develop a spatial database of CH₄ emissions for CA dairy farms including farm-scale herd demographics and management data. This database is useful to predict CH₄ emission reductions from mitigation efforts, to compare with atmospheric CH₄ observations and to attribute emissions to specific farms.