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Tribby A, Bois JS, Montzka SA, Atlas EL, Vimont I, Lan X, Tans PP, Elkins JW, Blake DR, Wennberg PO. Hydrocarbon Tracers Suggest Methane Emissions from Fossil Sources Occur Predominately Before Gas Processing and That Petroleum Plays Are a Significant Source. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:9623-9631. [PMID: 35699285 PMCID: PMC9260955 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c00927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 05/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We use global airborne observations of propane (C3H8) and ethane (C2H6) from the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) and HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO), as well as U.S.-based aircraft and tower observations by NOAA and from the NCAR FRAPPE campaign as tracers for emissions from oil and gas operations. To simulate global mole fraction fields for these gases, we update the default emissions' configuration of C3H8 used by the global chemical transport model, GEOS-Chem v13.0.0, using a scaled C2H6 spatial proxy. With the updated emissions, simulations of both C3H8 and C2H6 using GEOS-Chem are in reasonable agreement with ATom and HIPPO observations, though the updated emission fields underestimate C3H8 accumulation in the arctic wintertime, pointing to additional sources of this gas in the high latitudes (e.g., Europe). Using a Bayesian hierarchical model, we estimate global emissions of C2H6 and C3H8 from fossil fuel production in 2016-2018 to be 13.3 ± 0.7 (95% CI) and 14.7 ± 0.8 (95% CI) Tg/year, respectively. We calculate bottom-up hydrocarbon emission ratios using basin composition measurements weighted by gas production and find their magnitude is higher than expected and is similar to ratios informed by our revised alkane emissions. This suggests that emissions are dominated by pre-processing activities in oil-producing basins.
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- Ariana
L. Tribby
- Division
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division
of Biology and Biological Engineering, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 80305 United States
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- Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33149, United States
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- National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 80305 United States
- Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309 United States
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- National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 80305 United States
- Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309 United States
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- National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 80305 United States
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- National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 80305 United States
- Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309 United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California—Irvine, Irvine, California92697, United States
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- Division
of Engineering and Applied Science, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
- Division
of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Hu L, Andrews AE, Thoning KW, Sweeney C, Miller JB, Michalak AM, Dlugokencky E, Tans PP, Shiga YP, Mountain M, Nehrkorn T, Montzka SA, McKain K, Kofler J, Trudeau M, Michel SE, Biraud SC, Fischer ML, Worthy DEJ, Vaughn BH, White JWC, Yadav V, Basu S, van der Velde IR. Enhanced North American carbon uptake associated with El Niño. Sci Adv 2019; 5:eaaw0076. [PMID: 31183402 PMCID: PMC6551193 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw0076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/29/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Long-term atmospheric CO2 mole fraction and δ13CO2 observations over North America document persistent responses to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. We estimate these responses corresponded to 0.61 (0.45 to 0.79) PgC year-1 more North American carbon uptake during El Niño than during La Niña between 2007 and 2015, partially offsetting increases of net tropical biosphere-to-atmosphere carbon flux around El Niño. Anomalies in derived North American net ecosystem exchange (NEE) display strong but opposite correlations with surface air temperature between seasons, while their correlation with water availability was more constant throughout the year, such that water availability is the dominant control on annual NEE variability over North America. These results suggest that increased water availability and favorable temperature conditions (warmer spring and cooler summer) caused enhanced carbon uptake over North America near and during El Niño.
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- Lei Hu
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Environmental Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
- Faculty of Science, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Peters W, van der Velde IR, van Schaik E, Miller JB, Ciais P, Duarte HF, van der Laan-Luijkx IT, van der Molen MK, Scholze M, Schaefer K, Vidale PL, Verhoef A, Wårlind D, Zhu D, Tans PP, Vaughn B, White JW. Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO 2 uptake by plants during droughts at a continental-scale. Nat Geosci 2018; 11:744-748. [PMID: 30319710 PMCID: PMC6179136 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0212-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Severe droughts in the Northern Hemisphere cause widespread decline of agricultural yield, reduction of forest carbon uptake, and increased CO2 growth rates in the atmosphere. Plants respond to droughts by partially closing their stomata to limit their evaporative water loss, at the expense of carbon uptake by photosynthesis. This trade-off maximizes their water-use efficiency, as measured for many individual plants under laboratory conditions and field experiments. Here we analyze the 13C/12C stable isotope ratio in atmospheric CO2 (reported as δ13C) to provide new observational evidence of the impact of droughts on the water-use efficiency across areas of millions of km2 and spanning one decade of recent climate variability. We find strong and spatially coherent increases in water-use efficiency along with widespread reductions of net carbon uptake over the Northern Hemisphere during severe droughts that affected Europe, Russia, and the United States in 2001-2011. The impact of those droughts on water-use efficiency and carbon uptake by vegetation is substantially larger than simulated by the land-surface schemes of six state-of-the-art climate models. This suggests that drought induced carbon-climate feedbacks may be too small in these models and improvements to their vegetation dynamics using stable isotope observations can help to improve their drought response.
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- Wouter Peters
- Environmental Sciences Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- University of Groningen, Centre for Isotope Research, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
- Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
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- Environmental Sciences Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Dept. of Atm. Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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- Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
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- Dept. of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Dept. of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
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- Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
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- Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
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Liu Y, Zhou L, Tans PP, Zang K, Cheng S. Ratios of greenhouse gas emissions observed over the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. Sci Total Environ 2018; 633:1022-1031. [PMID: 29758855 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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During a cruise of the survey vessel Dongfanghong II on the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in the spring of 2017 we performed accurate measurements of the mole fractions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) using two types of Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometers (CRDS). The spatial variations of the mole fraction of the four trace gases were very similar. The emission sources of these gases were divided into several regions by using the NOAA HYSPLIT model. Then we analyzed the variations of the ratios of the mole fraction enhancements between every pair of trace gases downwind of these source areas. The ratios showed that the distributions of these trace gases over the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in the spring were mainly caused by the emissions from Eastern China. The much higher enhancement ratio of ΔCO/ΔCO2 and the lower ratio of ΔCH4/ΔCO observed in the air parcels from big cities like Beijing and Shanghai indicated high CO emission from the cities during our time of observation. Compared with the values of NOAA's Marine Boundary Layer (MBL), the ratios of the averages in the air coming from the Northern sector (Russia) were on average closer to the MBL, and the air that stayed over the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea was a mixture of emissions from wide regional areas. The highly variable N2O data of the air from Qingdao and Shanghai showed much more fluctuation.
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- Yunsong Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Beijing 100081, China.
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- Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Beijing 100081, China; National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Beijing 100081, China.
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Schwietzke S, Pétron G, Conley S, Pickering C, Mielke-Maday I, Dlugokencky EJ, Tans PP, Vaughn T, Bell C, Zimmerle D, Wolter S, King CW, White AB, Coleman T, Bianco L, Schnell RC. Improved Mechanistic Understanding of Natural Gas Methane Emissions from Spatially Resolved Aircraft Measurements. Environ Sci Technol 2017; 51:7286-7294. [PMID: 28548824 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b01810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Divergence in recent oil and gas related methane emission estimates between aircraft studies (basin total for a midday window) and emissions inventories (annualized regional and national statistics) indicate the need for better understanding the experimental design, including temporal and spatial alignment and interpretation of results. Our aircraft-based methane emission estimates in a major U.S. shale gas basin resolved from west to east show (i) similar spatial distributions for 2 days, (ii) strong spatial correlations with reported NG production (R2 = 0.75) and active gas well pad count (R2 = 0.81), and (iii) 2× higher emissions in the western half (normalized by gas production) despite relatively homogeneous dry gas and well characteristics. Operator reported hourly activity data show that midday episodic emissions from manual liquid unloadings (a routine operation in this basin and elsewhere) could explain ∼1/3 of the total emissions detected midday by the aircraft and ∼2/3 of the west-east difference in emissions. The 22% emission difference between both days further emphasizes that episodic sources can substantially impact midday methane emissions and that aircraft may detect daily peak emissions rather than daily averages that are generally employed in emissions inventories. While the aircraft approach is valid, quantitative, and independent, our study sheds new light on the interpretation of previous basin scale aircraft studies, and provides an improved mechanistic understanding of oil and gas related methane emissions.
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- Stefan Schwietzke
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado , 216 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado , 216 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Scientific Aviation, Inc. , 3335 Airport Road Suite B, Boulder, Colorado 80301, United States
- Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California , One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University , 400 Isotope Dr, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, United States
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado , 216 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University , 400 Isotope Dr, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University , 400 Isotope Dr, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University , 400 Isotope Dr, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, United States
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado , 216 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado , 216 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado , 216 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory , 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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Schwietzke S, Sherwood OA, Bruhwiler LMP, Miller JB, Etiope G, Dlugokencky EJ, Michel SE, Arling VA, Vaughn BH, White JWC, Tans PP. Corrigendum: Upward revision of global fossil fuel methane emissions based on isotope database. Nature 2017; 543:452. [PMID: 28199311 DOI: 10.1038/nature21422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Affiliation(s)
- Pieter P. Tans
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, 2314 Ritter Hall, A-020, La Jolla, CA 92093 U.S.A
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- Pieter P. Tans
- Isotope Physics Laboratory, Rÿksuniversiteit Groningen, Westersingel 34, 9718 CM Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Isotope Physics Laboratory, Rÿksuniversiteit Groningen, Westersingel 34, 9718 CM Groningen, The Netherlands
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Schwietzke S, Sherwood OA, Bruhwiler LMP, Miller JB, Etiope G, Dlugokencky EJ, Michel SE, Arling VA, Vaughn BH, White JWC, Tans PP. Upward revision of global fossil fuel methane emissions based on isotope database. Nature 2016; 538:88-91. [DOI: 10.1038/nature19797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 312] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Rhoderick GC, Kitzis DR, Kelley ME, Miller WR, Hall BD, Dlugokencky EJ, Tans PP, Possolo A, Carney J. Development of a Northern Continental Air Standard Reference Material. Anal Chem 2016; 88:3376-85. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b00123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- George C. Rhoderick
- Gas
Sensing Metrology Group Chemical Sciences Division Materials Measurement
Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau
Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8393, United States
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- Global
Monitoring Division Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Gas
Sensing Metrology Group Chemical Sciences Division Materials Measurement
Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau
Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8393, United States
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- Gas
Sensing Metrology Group Chemical Sciences Division Materials Measurement
Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau
Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8393, United States
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- Global
Monitoring Division Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Global
Monitoring Division Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Global
Monitoring Division Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Statistical
Engineering Division National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8980 United States
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- Gas
Sensing Metrology Group Chemical Sciences Division Materials Measurement
Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau
Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8393, United States
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Waterman LS, Nelson DW, Komhyr WD, Harris TB, Thoning KW, Tans PP. Atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements at Cape Matatula, American Samoa, 1976-1987. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/jd094id12p14817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Thoning KW, Tans PP, Komhyr WD. Atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory: 2. Analysis of the NOAA GMCC data, 1974-1985. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/jd094id06p08549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 587] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Miller JB, Lehman SJ, Montzka SA, Sweeney C, Miller BR, Karion A, Wolak C, Dlugokencky EJ, Southon J, Turnbull JC, Tans PP. Linking emissions of fossil fuel CO2and other anthropogenic trace gases using atmospheric14CO2. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd017048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Turnbull JC, Tans PP, Lehman SJ, Baker D, Conway TJ, Chung YS, Gregg J, Miller JB, Southon JR, Zhou LX. Atmospheric observations of carbon monoxide and fossil fuel CO2emissions from East Asia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd016691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ciais P, Tans PP, Trolier M, White JW, Francey RJ. A Large Northern Hemisphere Terrestrial CO2 Sink Indicated by the 13C/12C Ratio of Atmospheric CO2. Science 2010; 269:1098-102. [PMID: 17755534 DOI: 10.1126/science.269.5227.1098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Measurements of the concentrations and carbon-13/carbon-12 isotope ratios of atmospheric carbon dioxide can be used to quantify the net removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the oceans and terrestrial plants. A study of weekly samples from a global network of 43 sites defined the latitudinal and temporal patterns of the two carbon sinks. A strong terrestrial biospheric sink was found in the temperate latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere in 1992 and 1993, the magnitude of which is roughly half that of the global fossil fuel burning emissions for those years. The challenge now is to identify those processes that would cause the terrestrial biosphere to absorb carbon dioxide in such large quantities.
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Stephens BB, Gurney KR, Tans PP, Sweeney C, Peters W, Bruhwiler L, Ciais P, Ramonet M, Bousquet P, Nakazawa T, Aoki S, Machida T, Inoue G, Vinnichenko N, Lloyd J, Jordan A, Heimann M, Shibistova O, Langenfelds RL, Steele LP, Francey RJ, Denning AS. Weak Northern and Strong Tropical Land Carbon Uptake from Vertical Profiles of Atmospheric CO2. Science 2007; 316:1732-5. [PMID: 17588927 DOI: 10.1126/science.1137004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Measurements of midday vertical atmospheric CO2 distributions reveal annual-mean vertical CO2 gradients that are inconsistent with atmospheric models that estimate a large transfer of terrestrial carbon from tropical to northern latitudes. The three models that most closely reproduce the observed annual-mean vertical CO2 gradients estimate weaker northern uptake of -1.5 petagrams of carbon per year (Pg C year(-1)) and weaker tropical emission of +0.1 Pg C year(-1) compared with previous consensus estimates of -2.4 and +1.8 Pg C year(-1), respectively. This suggests that northern terrestrial uptake of industrial CO2 emissions plays a smaller role than previously thought and that, after subtracting land-use emissions, tropical ecosystems may currently be strong sinks for CO2.
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Turnbull JC, Lehman SJ, Miller JB, Sparks RJ, Southon JR, Tans PP. A new high precision14CO2time series for North American continental air. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd008184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Pollmann J, Helmig D, Hueber J, Tanner D, Tans PP. Evaluation of solid adsorbent materials for cryogen-free trapping—gas chromatographic analysis of atmospheric C2–C6 non-methane hydrocarbons. J Chromatogr A 2006; 1134:1-15. [PMID: 17010353 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2006.08.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2006] [Revised: 08/17/2006] [Accepted: 08/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Nine commercial solid adsorbent materials (in order of decreasing surface area: Carboxen 1000, Carbosieve S III, molecular sieve 5A, molecular sieve 4A, silica gel, Carboxen 563, activated alumina, Carbotrap and Carboxen 1016) were investigated for their ability to trap and release C2-C6 non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) in atmospheric samples for subsequent thermal desorption gas chromatography-flame ionization detection analysis (GC-FID). Recovery rates for 23 NMHCs and methyl chloride (CH3Cl) were determined. A microtrap filled with the three adsorbents Carbosieve S III, Carboxen 563 and Carboxen 1016 was found to allow for the analysis of the widest range of target analytes. A detection limit of approximately 3pptC [parts per trillion (carbon)] in a 1l air sample and a linear response over a wide range of volatilities and sample volumes was determined for this configuration. Water vapor in the sample air was found to causes interference in trapping and subsequent chromatographic analysis of light NMHCs. A Peltier-cooled, regenerable water trap inserted into the sample flow path was found to mitigate these problems and to allow quantitative and reproducible results for all analytes at all tested humidity conditions.
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- Jan Pollmann
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Trudeau ME, Chen P, Garcia GDA, Hollberg LW, Tans PP. Stable isotopic analysis of atmospheric methane by infrared spectroscopy by use of diode laser difference-frequency generation. Appl Opt 2006; 45:4136-41. [PMID: 16761056 DOI: 10.1364/ao.45.004136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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An infrared absorption spectrometer has been constructed to measure the stable isotopic composition of atmospheric methane samples. The spectrometer employs periodically poled lithium niobate to generate 15 microW of tunable difference-frequency radiation from two near-infrared diode lasers that probe the nu3 rotational-vibrational band of methane at 3.4 microm. To enhance the signal, methane is extracted from 25 l of air by use of a cryogenic chromatographic column and is expanded into the multipass cell for analysis. A measurement precision of 12 per thousand is demonstrated for both delta13C and deltaD.
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- Michael E Trudeau
- Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA.
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Michalak AM, Hirsch A, Bruhwiler L, Gurney KR, Peters W, Tans PP. Maximum likelihood estimation of covariance parameters for Bayesian atmospheric trace gas surface flux inversions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1029/2005jd005970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We have applied an inverse model to 20 years of atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements to infer yearly changes in the regional carbon balance of oceans and continents. The model indicates that global terrestrial carbon fluxes were approximately twice as variable as ocean fluxes between 1980 and 1998. Tropical land ecosystems contributed most of the interannual changes in Earth's carbon balance over the 1980s, whereas northern mid- and high-latitude land ecosystems dominated from 1990 to 1995. Strongly enhanced uptake of carbon was found over North America during the 1992-1993 period compared to 1989-1990.
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- P Bousquet
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
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Kuck LR, Smith T, Balsley BB, Helmig D, Conway TJ, Tans PP, Davis K, Jensen ML, Bognar JA, Arrieta RV, Rodriquez R, Birks JW. Measurements of landscape-scale fluxes of carbon dioxide in the Peruvian Amazon by vertical profiling through the atmospheric boundary layer. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1029/2000jd900105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Recent time-series measurements of atmospheric O2 show that the land biosphere and world oceans annually sequestered 1.4 +/- 0.8 and 2.0 +/- 0.6 gigatons of carbon, respectively, between mid-1991 and mid-1997. The rapid storage of carbon by the land biosphere from 1991 to 1997 contrasts with the 1980s, when the land biosphere was approximately neutral. Comparison with measurements of delta13CO2 implies an isotopic flux of 89 +/- 21 gigatons of carbon per mil per year, in agreement with model- and inventory-based estimates of this flux. Both the delta13C and the O2 data show significant interannual variability in carbon storage over the period of record. The general agreement of the independent estimates from O2 and delta13C is a robust signal of variable carbon uptake by both the land biosphere and the oceans.
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- M Battle
- Department of Geoscience, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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Stephens BB, Wofsy SC, Keeling RF, Tans PP, Potosnak MJ. The CO2 budget and rectification airborne study: Strategies for measuring rectifiers and regional fluxes. Inverse Methods in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2000. [DOI: 10.1029/gm114p0311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Ciais P, Denning AS, Tans PP, Berry JA, Randall DA, Collatz GJ, Sellers PJ, White JWC, Trolier M, Meijer HAJ, Francey RJ, Monfray P, Heimann M. A three-dimensional synthesis study of δ18O in atmospheric CO2: 1. Surface fluxes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1029/96jd02360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ciais P, Tans PP, Denning AS, Francey RJ, Trolier M, Meijer HAJ, White JWC, Berry JA, Randall DA, Collatz GJ, Sellers PJ, Monfray P, Heimann M. A three-dimensional synthesis study of δ18O in atmospheric CO2: 2. Simulations with the TM2 transport model. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1029/96jd02361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Masarie KA, Tans PP. Extension and integration of atmospheric carbon dioxide data into a globally consistent measurement record. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1029/95jd00859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 287] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ciais P, Tans PP, White JWC, Trolier M, Francey RJ, Berry JA, Randall DR, Sellers PJ, Collatz JG, Schimel DS. Partitioning of ocean and land uptake of CO2as inferred by δ13C measurements from the NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory Global Air Sampling Network. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1029/94jd02847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 296] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Measurements of carbon monoxide (CO) in air samples collected from 27 locations between 71 degrees N and 41 degrees S show that atmospheric levels of this gas have decreased worldwide over the past 2 to 5 years. During this period, CO decreased at nearly a constant rate in the high northern latitudes. In contrast, in the tropics an abrupt decrease occurred beginning at the end of 1991. In the Northern Hemisphere, CO decreased at a spatially and temporally averaged rate of 7.3 (+/-0.9) parts per billion per year (6.1 percent per year) from June 1990 to June 1993, whereas in the Southern Hemisphere, CO decreased 4.2 (+/-0.5) parts per billion per year (7.0 percent per year). This recent change is opposite a long-term trend of a 1 to 2 percent per year increase inferred from measurements made in the Northern Hemisphere during the past 30 years.
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Conway TJ, Tans PP, Waterman LS, Thoning KW, Kitzis DR, Masarie KA, Zhang N. Evidence for interannual variability of the carbon cycle from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory Global Air Sampling Network. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1029/94jd01951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 614] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Harris JM, Tans PP, Dlugokencky EJ, Masarie KA, Lang PM, Whittlestone S, Steele LP. Variations in atmospheric methane at Mauna Loa Observatory related to long-range transport. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1029/92jd00158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Observed atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and data on the partial pressures of CO2 in surface ocean waters are combined to identify globally significant sources and sinks of CO2. The atmospheric data are compared with boundary layer concentrations calculated with the transport fields generated by a general circulation model (GCM) for specified source-sink distributions. In the model the observed north-south atmospheric concentration gradient can be maintained only if sinks for CO2 are greater in the Northern than in the Southern Hemisphere. The observed differences between the partial pressure of CO2 in the surface waters of the Northern Hemisphere and the atmosphere are too small for the oceans to be the major sink of fossil fuel CO2. Therefore, a large amount of the CO2 is apparently absorbed on the continents by terrestrial ecosystems.
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Tans PP, Thoning KW, Elliott WP, Conway TJ. Error estimates of background atmospheric CO2patterns from weekly flask samples. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1029/jd095id09p14063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Tans PP, Conway TJ, Nakazawa T. Latitudinal distribution of the sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide derived from surface observations and an atmospheric transport model. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1989. [DOI: 10.1029/jd094id04p05151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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