Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources

JA Rosentreter, AV Borges, BR Deemer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas that plays a major role in controlling the
Earth's climate. The causes of the renewed increase of methane concentration since 2007 …

Trends in atmospheric methane concentrations since 1990 were driven and modified by anthropogenic emissions

RB Skeie, Ø Hodnebrog, G Myhre - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The atmospheric methane trend is not fully understood. Here we investigate the role of the
main sink, the main natural source, and anthropogenic emissions on the methane growth …

Impact of interannual and multidecadal trends on methane-climate feedbacks and sensitivity

CH Cheng, SAT Redfern - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
We estimate the causal contributions of spatiotemporal changes in temperature (T) and
precipitation (Pr) to changes in Earth's atmospheric methane concentration (C CH4) and its …

Climate and Tropospheric Oxidizing Capacity

AM Fiore, LJ Mickley, Q Zhu… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The hydroxyl radical (OH) largely controls the tropospheric self-cleansing capacity by
reacting with gases harmful to the environment and human health. OH concentrations are …

Adoption of cleaner technologies and reduction in fire events in the hotspots lead to global decline in carbon monoxide

A Joshi, M Pathak, J Kuttippurath, VK Patel - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon Monoxide (CO) is not a greenhouse gas (GHG), but has the capacity to change
atmospheric chemistry of other GHGs such as methane and ozone, and therefore indirectly …

Changes in tropospheric air quality related to the protection of stratospheric ozone in a changing climate

S Madronich, B Sulzberger, JD Longstreth… - Photochemical & …, 2023 - Springer
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation drives the net production of tropospheric ozone (O3) and a large
fraction of particulate matter (PM) including sulfate, nitrate, and secondary organic aerosols …

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 …

COVID-19 lockdown emission reductions have the potential to explain over half of the coincident increase in global atmospheric methane

DS Stevenson, RG Derwent, O Wild… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Compared with 2019, measurements of the global growth rate of background (marine air)
atmospheric methane rose by 5.3 ppb yr− 1 in 2020, reaching 15.0 ppb yr− 1. Global …

Reconciling the bottom-up and top-down estimates of the methane chemical sink using multiple observations

Y Zhao, M Saunois, P Bousquet, X Lin… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The methane chemical sink estimated by atmospheric chemistry models (bottom-up method)
is significantly larger than estimates based on methyl chloroform (MCF) inversions (top …

Plant gross primary production, plant respiration and carbonyl sulfide emissions over the globe inferred by atmospheric inverse modelling

M Remaud, F Chevallier, F Maignan… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Carbonyl sulfide (COS), a trace gas showing striking similarity to CO 2 in terms of
biochemical diffusion pathway into leaves, has been recognized as a promising indicator of …