Non-CO2 greenhouse gases and climate change

SA Montzka, EJ Dlugokencky, JH Butler - Nature, 2011‏ - nature.com
Earth's climate is warming as a result of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases,
particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel combustion. Anthropogenic emissions of …

History of chemically and radiatively important atmospheric gases from the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE)

RG Prinn, RF Weiss, J Arduini, T Arnold… - Earth System …, 2018‏ - essd.copernicus.org
We present the organization, instrumentation, datasets, data interpretation, modeling, and
accomplishments of the multinational, global atmospheric measurement program AGAGE …

Very strong atmospheric methane growth in the 4 years 2014–2017: Implications for the Paris Agreement

EG Nisbet, MR Manning… - Global …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric methane grew very rapidly in 2014 (12.7±0.5 ppb/year), 2015 (10.1±0.7
ppb/year), 2016 (7.0±0.7 ppb/year), and 2017 (7.7±0.7 ppb/year), at rates not observed …

Interpreting contemporary trends in atmospheric methane

AJ Turner, C Frankenberg, EA Kort - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Atmospheric methane plays a major role in controlling climate, yet contemporary methane
trends (1982–2017) have defied explanation with numerous, often conflicting, hypotheses …

Historical greenhouse gas concentrations for climate modelling (CMIP6)

M Meinshausen, E Vogel, A Nauels… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017‏ - gmd.copernicus.org
Atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations are at unprecedented, record-high
levels compared to the last 800 000 years. Those elevated GHG concentrations warm the …

Atmospheric methane: Comparison between methane's record in 2006–2022 and during glacial terminations

EG Nisbet, MR Manning… - Global …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric methane's rapid growth from late 2006 is unprecedented in the observational
record. Assessment of atmospheric methane data attributes a large fraction of this …

Rising atmospheric methane: 2007–2014 growth and isotopic shift

EG Nisbet, EJ Dlugokencky… - Global …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
From 2007 to 2013, the globally averaged mole fraction of methane in the atmosphere
increased by 5.7±1.2 ppb yr− 1. Simultaneously, δ13CCH4 (a measure of the 13C/12C …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating emissions of methane consistent with atmospheric measurements of methane and δ13C of methane

S Basu, X Lan, E Dlugokencky, S Michel… - Atmospheric …, 2022‏ - acp.copernicus.org
We have constructed an atmospheric inversion framework based on TM5-4DVAR to jointly
assimilate measurements of methane and δ 13 C of methane in order to estimate source …

Global tropospheric hydroxyl distribution, budget and reactivity

J Lelieveld, S Gromov, A Pozzer… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2016‏ - acp.copernicus.org
The self-cleaning or oxidation capacity of the atmosphere is principally controlled by
hydroxyl (OH) radicals in the troposphere. Hydroxyl has primary (P) and secondary (S) …

Role of atmospheric oxidation in recent methane growth

M Rigby, SA Montzka, RG Prinn, JWC White… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
The growth in global methane (CH4) concentration, which had been ongoing since the
industrial revolution, stalled around the year 2000 before resuming globally in 2007. We …