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Scientific literature using the G-res Tool

Gómez-Gener L, M Gubau, D von Schiller, R Marcé and B Obrador.2023. Integrated assessment of the net carbon footprint of small hydropower plants. Environ. Res. Lett. 18 (2023) 084015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acdfe5

Hansen C, R Pilla, P Matson , B Skinner, N Griffiths, H Jager. 2023. Variability in modelled reservoir greenhouse gas emissions: comparison of select US hydropower reservoirs against global estimates. Environ. Res. Commun. 4 121008
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/acae24

Soued C, JA Harrison, S Mercier-Blais, YT Prairie. 2022. Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900–2060. Nature Geoscience. DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01004-2

Prairie YT, S Mercier-Blais, JA Harrison, C Soued ,PA del Giorgio, A Harby,  J Alm, V Chanudet, R Nahas. 2021. A new modelling framework to assess biogenic GHG emissions from reservoirs: The G-res tool. Environmental Modelling and Software 143 (2021) 105117, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105117

Harrison JA, YT Prairie, C Soued, S Mercier-Blais. 2021. Year-2020 global distribution and pathways of reservoir methane and carbon dioxide emissions according to the greenhouse gas from reservoirs (G-res) model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006888

Ubierna M, CD Santos, S Mercier-Blais. 2021. Chapter 5:Water Security and Climate Change: Hydropower Reservoir Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Water Security Under Climate Change, Water Resources Development and Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5493-0_5

Levasseur A, S Mercier-Blais, YT Prairie, A Tremblay, C Turpin. 2020. Improving the accuracy of electricity carbon footprint: Estimation of hydroelectric reservoir greenhouse gas emissions. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 136 (2021) 110433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110433

Soued C, YT Prairie. 2020. The carbon footprint of a Malaysian tropical reservoir : measured versus modeled estimates highlight the underestimated key role of downstream processes. Biogeosciences, 17, 515-527, 2020. DOI:10.5194/bg-2019-385 https://www.biogeosciences.net/17/515/2020/

van Vuuren L. 2019. Financing dam projects with green bonds – water engineering.  Civil Engineering. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-16eb9f2a0f

Bin, Z. et al. 2019. The net GHG flux assessment model of reservoir(G-res Tool) and its application in reservoirs in upper reaches of Yangtze River in China. J Lake Sci 31, 1479–1488 (2019).

Li Z, Du H, Xu H, Xiao Y, Lu L, Guo J, Prairie YT, Mercier-Blais S. 2019. The carbon footprint of large- and mid-scale hydropower in China: Synthesis from five China’s largest hydro-project. Journal of environmental management 250 (2019) 109363 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109363

Dhakal PR. 2018. Greenhouse gas emissions from fresh water reservoirs. Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. June 2018.
https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2558600/19662_FULLTEXT.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Jiang T, Shen Z, Liu Y, Hou Y. 2018. Carbon Footprint Assessment of Four Normal Size Hydropower Stations in China. Sustainability 10-02018. doi:10.3390/su10062018. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/6/2018

Prairie YT, J Alm, J Beaulieu, N Barros, T Battin, JJ Cole, PA del Giorgio, T DelSontro, F Guérin, A Harby, J Harrison, S Mercier-Blais, D Serça, S Sobek and D Vachon. 2018. GHG emissions from freshwater reservoirs: what does the atmosphere see? Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-017-0198-9

Kamal, M. 2017. Scenario of Small Hydro Power Projects in India and Its Environmental Aspect. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology. 04:10, 228-234. https://www.irjet.net/archives/V4/i10/IRJET-V4I1041.pdf

Kumar A, Sharma MP. 2016. A modeling approach to assess the greenhouse gas risk in Koteshwar hydropower reservoir, India. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 22:8, 1651-1664, DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2016.1209077. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10807039.2016.1209077




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