TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dumble, Paul
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/20
TI  - Demonstrating Regional Climate and Meteorological Sensitivity in Landfill Methane Inventories from Historical Californian Databases
JO  - Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research
SP  - 054
VL  - 03
IS  - 04
AB  - The urgency to manage global methane emissions has been acknowledged with international pledges to reduce 2020 levels by 30% by 2030. Carbon management requires effective tools to monitor changes, including those from significant sources including waste disposed on land. The first order degradation model used to determine landfill methane emissions, has been described by researchers as highly variable, insensitive and inadequate, despite recent attempts to explain microclimate impacts on methane oxidation. The development of detailed regional inventories is hampered by these variables. The availability of historical waste management and meteorological data in California, enables a theoretical review and modelling of meteorological moisture changes with methane generation data in a region of decadal drought. This study identifies a novel approach in the modelling of regional optimisation of variable seasonal parameters of moisture and methane oxidation based on the adjustment of the methane correction factor (MCF) generally assumed to be MCF = 1 for managed sites, that is optimised as MCFsite ≠ 1 as the average regional MCFall sites, → 1 (Range: 
SN  - 2766-6190
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/aeer.2204054
DO  - 10.21926/aeer.2204054
ID  - Dumble2022
ER  -