Methane Trends and Variability
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 March 2022) | Viewed by 3559
Special Issue Editor
2. NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Interests: methane oil and gas emissions; air quality modeling; atmospheric chemistry-climate interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Atmospheric methane concentration has increased by a factor of 2.5 from its pre-industrial level. Changes in atmospheric methane abundance have implications for both chemistry and climate as it is both a potent greenhouse gas and a precursor for tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapor. Over the past few decades, the global network of surface observations has shown a rapid growth in methane from the 1980s to the 1990s, nearly stabilization during early 2000s, and a renewed growth after 2006, with the largest increase in 2020. Although the long-term methane increase since pre-industrial times has been largely attributed to anthropogenic activities, there is much debate on the drivers of methane growth since the 2000s. The open-access journal Atmosphere is hosting a Special Issue to present the most recent findings related to methane trends and variability. The ultimate goal of this Special Issue is to improve our understanding of the drivers of methane trends and variability over the recent past and therefore to build confidence in controlling and projecting future methane levels and assessing the resulting impact on air quality and climate.
This Special Issue invites studies based on field measurements, satellite data analysis, numerical modeling, machine learning, etc. at various time scales (e.g., seasonal to centennial). Specific topics include but are not limited to:
- Methane emissions from wetlands, agriculture and waste, fossil fuel, and biomass burning.
- Hydroxyl radicals and methane lifetime.
- ENSO and methane variability.
- Global methane budget and regional contribution.
- Impacts of methane on ozone.
- Climate change and methane mitigation.
Dr. Jian He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- methane trends
- methane variability
- oil and gas emissions
- methane lifetime
- hydroxyl radical
- wetlands
