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Ilse Aben

International Collaborator
SRON, Netherlands

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Dr. Ilse Aben is the Dutch co-Principal Investigator and co-initiator of the TROPOMI instrument on ESA’s Sentinel-5 Precursor mission. Her research focuses on methane, and CO emissions, with high relevance to Carbon-I related science questions and technical approachs (Irakulis-Loitxate et al., 2022; Maasakkers et al., 2022; Naus et al., 2023; Pandey et al., 2019, 2023; Sadavarte et al., 2021; Schuit et al., 2023; Velde et al., 2021)

Education

  • PhD in Physics | Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 1992
  • Diploma in Chemistry | Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 1987

Professional Experience

  • 2003-present Senior Scientist SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 1994-2002 Scientist SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, the Netherlands
  • 1992-1994Postdoc at Institute of Mass Spectrometry, University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2021-present Endowed Professor Earth Sciences Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2001-2021 Endowed Professor Physics Department Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Closing tropical data gaps to resolve global carbon-budget uncertainties

References

Irakulis-Loitxate, I., Guanter, L., Maasakkers, J. D., Zavala-Araiza, D., & Aben, I. (2022). Satellites detect abatable super-emissions in one of the world’s largest methane hotspot regions. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(4), 2143–2152. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04873
Maasakkers, J. D., Varon, D. J., Elfarsdóttir, A., McKeever, J., Jervis, D., Mahapatra, G., et al. (2022). Using satellites to uncover large methane emissions from landfills. Science Advances, 8(31), eabn9683. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn9683
Naus, S., Maasakkers, J., Gautam, R., Omara, M., Stikker, R., Veenstra, A., et al. (2023). Assessing the relative importance of satellite-detected methane superemitters in quantifying total emissions for oil and gas production areas in algeria. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(48), 19545–19556. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c04746
Pandey, S., Gautam, R., Houweling, S., Van Der Gon, H. D., Sadavarte, P., Borsdorff, T., et al. (2019). Satellite observations reveal extreme methane leakage from a natural gas well blowout. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(52), 26376–26381. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908712116
Pandey, S., Nistelrooij, M. van, Maasakkers, J. D., Sutar, P., Houweling, S., Varon, D. J., et al. (2023). Daily detection and quantification of methane leaks using sentinel-3: A tiered satellite observation approach with sentinel-2 and sentinel-5p. Remote Sensing of Environment, 296, 113716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113716
Sadavarte, P., Pandey, S., Maasakkers, J. D., Lorente, A., Borsdorff, T., Denier van der Gon, H., et al. (2021). Methane emissions from superemitting coal mines in australia quantified using TROPOMI satellite observations. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(24), 16573–16580. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c03976
Schuit, B. J., Maasakkers, J. D., Bijl, P., Mahapatra, G., Van den Berg, A.-W., Pandey, S., et al. (2023). Automated detection and monitoring of methane super-emitters using satellite data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 1–47. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9071-2023
Velde, I. R. van der, Werf, G. R. van der, Houweling, S., Maasakkers, J. D., Borsdorff, T., Landgraf, J., et al. (2021). Vast CO2 release from australian fires in 2019–2020 constrained by satellite. Nature, 597(7876), 366–369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03712-y