• DOI:10.1073/pnas.1616426114
Corpus ID: 5013516

Role of atmospheric oxidation in recent methane growth

@article{Rigby2017RoleOA,
  title={Role of atmospheric oxidation in recent methane growth},
  author={M. Rigby and S. A. Montzka and R. G. Prinn and J. White and D. Young and S. O'Doherty and M. Lunt and A. Ganesan and A. Manning and P. Simmonds and P. K. Salameh and C. Harth and J. M{\"u}hle and R. F. Weiss and P. J. Fraser and L. Steele and P. Krummel and A. McCulloch and Sunyoung Park},
  journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  year={2017},
  volume={114},
  pages={5373 - 5377}
}

M. Rigby, S. A. Montzka, +16 authors Sunyoung Park

Published 2017

Chemistry, Medicine

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Significance Methane, the second most important greenhouse gas, has varied markedly in its atmospheric growth rate. The cause of these fluctuations remains poorly understood. Recent efforts to determine the drivers of the pause in growth in 1999 and renewed growth from 2007 onward have focused primarily on changes in sources alone. Here, we show that changes in the major methane sink, the hydroxyl radical, have likely played a substantial role in the global methane growth rate. This work has… CONTINUE READING

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