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DOI | 10.5194/acp-22-5961-2022 |
Quantification of methane emissions from hotspots and during CUVID-19 using a global atmospneric inversion | |
McNorton, Joe; Bousserez, Nicolas; Agusti-Panareda, Anna; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Cantarello, Luca; Engelen, Richard; Huijnen, Vincent; Inness, Antje; Kipling, Zak; Parrington, Mark; Ribas, Roberto | |
发表日期 | 2022 |
ISSN | 1680-7316 |
EISSN | 1680-7324 |
起始页码 | 5961 |
结束页码 | 5981 |
卷号 | 22期号:9页码:21 |
英文摘要 | Concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4), the second most important greenhouse gas, continue to grow. In recent years this growth rate has increased further (2020: +15.6 ppb), the cause of which remains largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate a high-resolution (similar to 80 km), short-window (24 h) 4D-Var global inversion system based on the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) and newly available satellite observations. The largest national disagreement found between prior (5.3 Tg per month) and posterior (5.0 Tg per month) CH4 emissions is from China, mainly attributed to the energy sector. Emissions estimated from our global system are in good agreement with those of previous regional studies and point source-specific studies Emission events (leaks or blowouts) > 10 t CH(4)h(-1) were detected, but without appropriate prior uncertainty information, were not well quantified. Our results suggest that global anthropogenic CH4 emissions for the first 6 months of 2020 were, on average, 470 Gg per month (+1.6 %) higher than for 2019, mainly attributed to the energy and agricultural sectors. Regionally, the largest increases were seen from China (+220 Gg per month, 4.3 %), with smaller increases from India (+50 Gg per month, 1.5 %) and the USA (+40 Gg per month, 2.2 %). When assuming a consistent year-on-year positive trend in emissions, results show that during the onset of the global slowdown (March-April 2020) energy sector CH4 emissions from China increased above expected levels; however, during later months (May-June 2020) emissions decreased below expected levels. Results for the first 6 months of 2019/20 suggest that the accumulated impact of the COVID-19 slowdown on CH4 emissions from March-June 2020 might be small relative to the long-term positive trend in emissions. Changes in OH concentration, not investigated here, may have contributed to the observed growth in 2020. |
学科领域 | Environmental Sciences; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000791258800001 |
来源期刊 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/273584 |
作者单位 | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF); Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | McNorton, Joe,Bousserez, Nicolas,Agusti-Panareda, Anna,et al. Quantification of methane emissions from hotspots and during CUVID-19 using a global atmospneric inversion[J],2022,22(9):21. |
APA | McNorton, Joe.,Bousserez, Nicolas.,Agusti-Panareda, Anna.,Balsamo, Gianpaolo.,Cantarello, Luca.,...&Ribas, Roberto.(2022).Quantification of methane emissions from hotspots and during CUVID-19 using a global atmospneric inversion.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,22(9),21. |
MLA | McNorton, Joe,et al."Quantification of methane emissions from hotspots and during CUVID-19 using a global atmospneric inversion".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 22.9(2022):21. |
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