READ ME File For Summary data for tracer gas dispersion tests for landfill methane emission monitoring at a UK landfill

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D0391

ReadMe Author: Rees-White, T. C. & Beaven R. P., , University of Southampton

This dataset supports the publications:
1) Rees-White, T. C., Mønster, J., Beaven R. P., Scheutz, C. (2018) Measuring methane emissions from a UK landfill sing the tracer dispersion method and the influence of operational and environmental factors  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2018.03.023 
2) Matacchiera F,  Manes C,  Beaven RP, Rees-White TC,  Boano F,  Mønster J and  Scheutz C (2018). AERMOD as a Gaussian dispersion model for planning tracer gas dispersion tests for landfill methane emission quantification https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2018.02.007 


Contents
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This dataset contains the data discussed within the papers listed above and in certain Figures from the Rees-White paper.

The figures are as follows:
Fig. 3. Atmospheric pressure and wind speed during the period of August 5th to August 14th, 2014. Start and end times of each TDM experiment are given as vertical lines
Fig. 4. Incoming solar radiation and air temperature during the period of August 3th to August 14th, 2014. Start and end times of each TDM experiment are given as vertical lines
Fig. 6 (a to f). Methane emission data for each transect in a TDM with average overall emission and the 95% confidence interval. The name of the monitoring route used for a given transect is also shown
Fig. 7. Measured methane emissions vs. average wind speed for the six TDM trials. Linear regression is given (R2 = -0.82).
Fig. 8. Individual transect data from TDM2 shown against estimated wind speed, interpolated between measurement points. Data are colour coded to reflect the monitoring route used. a) shows data between 18:07 and 20:09, and b) 20:59 to 22:14.
Fig. 9. a) Average methane emission data from each monitoring route shown against measuring distance, b) Average methane emission rate from each monitoring route for a given TDM measured at different monitoring distances.





Geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K.

Related projects:
This project was part funded by Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), UK. The project was carried out as part of a larger methane quantification and method comparison study, co-ordinated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK funded GAUGE consortia. This work was supported by EPSRC platform grant: ‘Processes, mechanics & management of residual wastes’ (EPSRC GR/T25194/01).


Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence


Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K.


Date: January 2018