Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1151-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1151-2021
Data description paper
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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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AR by Alison Marklein on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2020)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (17 Dec 2020) by Nellie Elguindi

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AA by Alison Marklein on behalf of the Authors (15 Mar 2021)   Author's adjustment   Manuscript
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Short summary
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.