Reversal of global atmospheric ethane and propane trends largely due to US oil and natural gas production

D Helmig, S Rossabi, J Hueber, P Tans… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Non-methane hydrocarbons such as ethane are important precursors to tropospheric ozone
and aerosols. Using data from a global surface network and atmospheric column …

Discrepancy between simulated and observed ethane and propane levels explained by underestimated fossil emissions

SB Dalsøren, G Myhre, Ø Hodnebrog, CL Myhre… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ethane and propane are the most abundant non-methane hydrocarbons in the atmosphere.
However, their emissions, atmospheric distribution, and trends in their atmospheric …

Tropospheric ozone change from 1980 to 2010 dominated by equatorward redistribution of emissions

Y Zhang, OR Cooper, A Gaudel, AM Thompson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Ozone is an important air pollutant at the surface, and the third most important
anthropogenic greenhouse gas in the troposphere. Since 1980, anthropogenic emissions of …

Fugitive emissions from the Bakken shale illustrate role of shale production in global ethane shift

EA Kort, ML Smith, LT Murray… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ethane is the second most abundant atmospheric hydrocarbon, exerts a strong influence on
tropospheric ozone, and reduces the atmosphere's oxidative capacity. Global observations …

Earth's degassing: a missing ethane and propane source

G Etiope, P Ciccioli - Science, 2009 - science.org
Current emission inventories require an additional" unknown" source to balance the global
atmospheric budgets of ethane (C2H6). Here, we provide evidence that a substantial part of …

Contribution of oil and natural gas production to renewed increase in atmospheric methane (2007–2014): top–down estimate from ethane and methane column …

P Hausmann, R Sussmann… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Harmonized time series of column-averaged mole fractions of atmospheric methane and
ethane over the period 1999–2014 are derived from solar Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) …

Revisiting global fossil fuel and biofuel emissions of ethane

ZA Tzompa‐Sosa, E Mahieu, B Franco… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent measurements over the Northern Hemisphere indicate that the long‐term decline in
the atmospheric burden of ethane (C2H6) has ended and the abundance increased …

Bottom-up simulations of methane and ethane emissions from global oil and gas systems 1980 to 2012

L Höglund-Isaksson - Environmental Research Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Existing bottom-up emission inventories of methane from global oil and gas systems do not
satisfactorily explain year-on-year variation in atmospheric methane estimated by top-down …

[HTML][HTML] Global distribution of methane emissions, emission trends, and OH concentrations and trends inferred from an inversion of GOSAT satellite data for 2010 …

JD Maasakkers, DJ Jacob, MP Sulprizio… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
We use 2010–2015 observations of atmospheric methane columns from the GOSAT satellite
instrument in a global inverse analysis to improve estimates of methane emissions and their …

Global budget of ethane and regional constraints on US sources

Y Xiao, JA Logan, DJ Jacob… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We use a 3‐D chemical transport model (the GEOS‐Chem CTM) to evaluate a global
emission inventory for ethane (C2H6), with a best estimate for the global source of 13 Tg yr …