Online-coupled meteorology and chemistry models: history, current status, and outlook

Y Zhang - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2008 - acp.copernicus.org
The climate-chemistry-aerosol-cloud-radiation feedbacks are important processes occurring
in the atmosphere. Accurately simulating those feedbacks requires fully-coupled …

TransCom model simulations of CH4 and related species: linking transport, surface flux and chemical loss with CH4 variability in the troposphere and lower …

PK Patra, S Houweling, M Krol… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
A chemistry-transport model (CTM) intercomparison experiment (TransCom-CH 4) has been
designed to investigate the roles of surface emissions, transport and chemical loss in …

CHASER: A global chemical model of the troposphere 1. Model description

K Sudo, M Takahashi, J Kurokawa… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new global three‐dimensional chemical model for the troposphere, named
chemical atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) for study of atmospheric …

Uncertainties and assessments of chemistry-climate models of the stratosphere

J Austin, D Shindell, SR Beagley, C Brühl… - Atmospheric …, 2003 - acp.copernicus.org
In recent years a number of chemistry-climate models have been developed with an
emphasis on the stratosphere. Such models cover a wide range of time scales of integration …

Emissions from the oil and gas sectors, coal mining and ruminant farming drive methane growth over the past three decades

N Chandra, PK Patra, JSH Bisht, A Ito… - Journal of the …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Methane (CH 4) is an important greenhouse gas and plays a significant role in tropospheric
and stratospheric chemistry. Despite the relevance of methane (CH 4) in human-induced …

Variations in global methane sources and sinks during 1910–2010

A Ghosh, PK Patra, K Ishijima… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric methane (CH 4) increased from∼ 900 ppb (parts per billion, or nanomoles per
mole of dry air) in 1900 to∼ 1800 ppb in 2010 at a rate unprecedented in any observational …

A comparison of model‐simulated trends in stratospheric temperatures

KP Shine, MS Bourqui, PMF Forster… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Estimates of annual‐mean stratospheric temperature trends over the past twenty years, from
a wide variety of models, are compared both with each other and with the observed cooling …

Observational evidence for interhemispheric hydroxyl-radical parity

PK Patra, MC Krol, SA Montzka, T Arnold, EL Atlas… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The hydroxyl radical (OH) is a key oxidant involved in the removal of air pollutants and
greenhouse gases from the atmosphere,,. The ratio of Northern Hemispheric to Southern …

Global source attribution of tropospheric ozone: Long‐range transport from various source regions

K Sudo, H Akimoto - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We examine contributions from various source regions to global distributions and budgets of
tropospheric ozone (O3) in the context of intercontinental transport, using tagged tracer …

Methane emissions decreased in fossil fuel exploitation and sustainably increased in microbial source sectors during 1990–2020

N Chandra, PK Patra, R Fujita… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Methane (CH4) emission reduction to limit warming to 1.5° C can be tracked by analyzing
CH4 concentration and its isotopic composition (δ 13C, δ D) simultaneously. Based on …