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    • Methane emissions estimates and related data sets for Washington DC and Baltimore, MD urban areas

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    This dataset accompanies the publication below. Here we provide the results of the analysis, including gridded estimates of methane emissions for the Washington/Baltimore area at 0.01 degrees resolution and monthly from 2017 through 2021. All files available for unrestricted public use with citation of this data set except the Observations_XX files. Observations are for non-commercial use only, as they are purchased from a private data provider (AEM, Inc. via Earth Networks, Inc.).Methane Emissions Show Recent Decline but Strong Seasonality in Two US Northeastern CitiesAnna Karion, Subhomoy Ghosh, Israel Lopez-Coto, Kimberly Mueller, Sharon Gourdji, Joseph Pitt, and James WhetstoneEnvironmental Science & Technology 2023 57 (48), 19565-19574 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c05050

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c05050

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 30, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 30, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Maintainer
    Identifier ark:/88434/mds2-3720
    Data First Published 2025-03-10
    Language en
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-07 00:00:00
    Category Environment:Greenhouse gas measurements
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 006:55
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 11802f7d-546b-4922-80bc-955a062afb71
    Harvest Source Id bce99b55-29c1-47be-b214-b8e71e9180b1
    Harvest Source Title Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source
    Homepage URL https://data.nist.gov/od/id/mds2-3720
    License https://www.nist.gov/open/license
    Program Code 006:047
    Related Documents https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c05050
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4ad3a02da97ec0f1f116b45226d6841a53e5a209ad04dcdc632391d7262ea1ee
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2017-05-01/2021-12-31

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