Fugitive methane emissions from leak-prone natural gas distribution infrastructure in urban environments.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Environmental Pollution

• Publication date

  2016-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.01.094PMID 27023280
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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