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EPA-monthly-emissions_1B2b_Natural_Gas_Production·dataset

U.S. Methane From Natural Gas Production (Monthly Map)

Gridded 2012 EPA Methane Emissions - Natural Gas Production (monthly)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A month-by-month map of methane that leaks (rather than burns) during natural gas production across the United States, from the EPA's 2012 emissions inventory.

How it's made. Built by the EPA by estimating monthly non-combustion methane from natural gas production and placing the totals onto a grid of map cells.

How & where you'd use it. Helps pinpoint gas-industry methane leaks for national climate accounting and emission cuts.

What's measured

EPAmonthlyemissions1B2bNaturalGasProduction

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2012-01-01 → 2012-12-31
  • Spatial extent-130, 20, -60, 55
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Non-combustion emissions from sector 1B2b for natural gas production (monthly).

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("EPA-monthly-emissions_1B2b_Natural_Gas_Production")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).