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DOI	10.5194/acp-21-15153-2021
	Temporary pause in the growth of atmospheric ethane and propane in 2015-2018
	Angot H.; Davel C.; Wiedinmyer C.; Pétron G.; Chopra J.; Hueber J.; Blanchard B.; Bourgeois I.; Vimont I.; Montzka S.A.; Miller B.R.; Elkins J.W.; Helmig D.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1680-7316
起始页码	15153
结束页码	15170
卷号	21 期号:19
英文摘要	Atmospheric non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) play an important role in the formation of secondary organic aerosols and ozone. After a multidecadal global decline in atmospheric mole fractions of ethane and propane-the most abundant atmospheric NMHCs-previous work has shown a reversal of this trend with increasing atmospheric abundances from 2009 to 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere. These concentration increases were attributed to the unprecedented growth in oil and natural gas (O&NG) production in North America. Here, we supplement this trend analysis building on the long-Term (2008-2010; 2012-2020) high-resolution (g 1/43g h) record of ambient air C2-C7 NMHCs from in situ measurements at the Greenland Environmental Observatory at Summit station (GEOSummit, 72.58g gg N, 38.48g gg W; 3210g m above sea level). We confirm previous findings that the ethane mole fraction significantly increased by +69.0 [+47.4, +73.2; 95g confidence interval]g pptg yr-1 from January 2010 to December 2014. Subsequent measurements, however, reveal a significant decrease by-58.4 [-64.1,-48.9]g pptg yr-1 from January 2015 to December 2018. A similar reversal is found for propane. The upturn observed after 2019 suggests, however, that the pause in the growth of atmospheric ethane and propane might only have been temporary. Discrete samples collected at other northern hemispheric baseline sites under the umbrella of the NOAA cooperative global air sampling network show a similar decrease in 2015-2018 and suggest a hemispheric pattern. Here, we further discuss the potential contribution of biomass burning and O&NG emissions (the main sources of ethane and propane) and conclude that O&NG activities likely played a role in these recent changes. This study highlights the crucial need for better constrained emission inventories. © Copyright:
语种	英语
scopus关键词	ambient air; atmospheric chemistry; ethane; in situ measurement; propane; trend analysis
来源期刊	ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/246516
作者单位	Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; Extreme Environments Research Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Valais Wallis, Sion, Switzerland; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; Noaa, Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML), Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, United States; Boulder A.I.R. Llc, Boulder, CO, United States; Noaa, Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Angot H.,Davel C.,Wiedinmyer C.,et al. Temporary pause in the growth of atmospheric ethane and propane in 2015-2018[J],2021,21(19).
APA	Angot H..,Davel C..,Wiedinmyer C..,Pétron G..,Chopra J..,...&Helmig D..(2021).Temporary pause in the growth of atmospheric ethane and propane in 2015-2018.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,21(19).
MLA	Angot H.,et al."Temporary pause in the growth of atmospheric ethane and propane in 2015-2018".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 21.19(2021).