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• Projections of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions and the resulting global warming based on recent trends in observed abundances and current policies.

  Authors:Guus J. M. Velders, John S. Daniel, Stephen A. Montzka, Isaac Vimont, Matthew Rigby, Paul B. Krummel, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 22, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 10, 2022441 words Article The emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) have increased significantly in the past 2 decades, primarily as a result of the phaseout of ozone-depleting substances under the Montreal Protocol and the use of HFCs as their...

• Top-down and bottom-up estimates of anthropogenic methyl bromide emissions from eastern China.

  Authors:Haklim Choi, Mi-Kyung Park, Paul J. Fraser, Hyeri Park, Sohyeon Geum, Jens Mühle, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 22, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20, 2022433 words Article Methyl bromide (CH.sub.3 Br) is a potent ozone-depleting substance (ODS) that has both natural and anthropogenic sources. CH.sub.3 Br has been used mainly for preplant soil fumigation, post-harvest grain and timber...

• Quantifying fossil fuel methane emissions using observations of atmospheric ethane and an uncertain emission ratio.

  Authors:Alice E. Ramsden, Anita L. Ganesan, Luke M. Western, Matthew Rigby, Alistair J. Manning, Amy Foulds, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 22, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 25, 2022281 words Brief article We present a method for estimating fossil fuel methane emissions using observations of methane and ethane, accounting for uncertainty in their emission ratio. The ethane:methane emission ratio is incorporated as a...

• Global emissions of perfluorocyclobutane (PFC-318, c-C.sub.4F.sub.8) resulting from the use of hydrochlorofluorocarbon-22 (HCFC-22) feedstock to produce polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and related fluorochemicals.

  Authors:Jens Mühle, Lambert J. M. Kuijpers, Kieran M. Stanley, Matthew Rigby, Luke M. Western, Jooil Kim, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 22, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 14, 2022244 words Brief article Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas perfluorocyclobutane (c-C.sub.4 F.sub.8, PFC-318, octafluorocyclobutane) into the global atmosphere inferred from atmospheric measurements have been increasing sharply since the...

• Atmospheric observations consistent with reported decline in the UK's methane emissions (2013-2020).

  Authors:Mark F. Lunt, Alistair J. Manning, Grant Allen, Tim Arnold, Stéphane J.-B. Bauguitte, Hartmut Boesch, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 21) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 5, 2021395 words Brief article Atmospheric measurements can be used as a tool to evaluate national greenhouse gas inventories through inverse modelling. Using 8 years of continuous methane (CH.sub.4) concentration data, this work assesses the United...

• Evidence of a recent decline in UK emissions of hydrofluorocarbons determined by the InTEM inverse model and atmospheric measurements.

  Authors:Alistair J. Manning, Alison L. Redington, Daniel Say, Simon O'Doherty, Dickon Young, Peter G. Simmonds, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 27, 2021424 words Article National greenhouse gas inventories (GHGIs) are submitted annually to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They are estimated in compliance with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

• Perfluorocyclobutane (PFC-318, c-C.sub.4F.sub.8) in the global atmosphere

  Authors:Cathy M. Trudinger, Luke M. Western, Matthew Rigby, Martin K. Vollmer, Sunyoung Park, Alistair J. Manning, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 15) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 14, 2019582 words Author abstract, Bri...

  We reconstruct atmospheric abundances of the potent greenhouse gas c-C.sub.4 F.sub.8 (perfluorocyclobutane, perfluorocarbon PFC-318) from measurements of in situ, archived, firn, and aircraft air samples with...

• Consumption of CH.sub.3Cl, CH.sub.3Br, and CH.sub.3I and emission of CHCl.sub.3, CHBr.sub.3, and CH.sub.2Br.sub.2 from the forefield of a retreating Arctic glacier.

  Authors:Moya L. Macdonald, Jemma L. Wadham, Dickon Young, Chris R. Lunder, Ove Hermansen, Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  June 23, 2020367 words Brief article The Arctic is one of the most rapidly warming regions of the Earth, with predicted temperature increases of 5-7 .sup." C and the accompanying extensive retreat of Arctic glacial systems by 2100. Retreating...

• Role of atmospheric oxidation in recent methane growth

  Authors:Matthew Rigby, Stephen A. Montzka, Ronald G. Prinn, James W.C. White, Dickon Young, Simon O'Doherty, et al.From:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (Vol. 114, Issue 21) Peer-Reviewed

  May 23, 20175,782 words Report 1590L

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• A measurement-based verification framework for UK greenhouse gas emissions: an overview of the Greenhouse gAs Uk and Global Emissions (GAUGE) project

  Authors:Paul I. Palmer, Simon O'Doherty, Grant Allen, Keith Bower, Hartmut Bosch, Martyn P. Chipperfield, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 17, 2018488 words Brief article, Repor...

  We describe the motivation, design, and execution of the Greenhouse gAs Uk and Global Emissions (GAUGE) project. The overarching scientific objective of GAUGE was to use atmospheric data to estimate the magnitude,...

• Bayesian spatio-temporal inference of trace gas emissions using an integrated nested Laplacian approximation and Gaussian Markov random fields.

  Authors:Luke M. Western, Zhe Sha, Matthew Rigby, Anita L. Ganesan, Alistair J. Manning, Kieran M. Stanley, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 28, 2020224 words Brief article We present a method to infer spatially and spatio-temporally correlated emissions of greenhouse gases from atmospheric measurements and a chemical transport model. The method allows fast computation of spatial emissions...

• Reconciling reported and unreported HFC emissions with atmospheric observations

  Authors:Mark F. Lunt, Matthew Rigby, Anita L. Ganesan, Alistair J. Manning, Ronald G. Prinn, Simon O'Doherty, et al.From:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (Vol. 112, Issue 19) Peer-Reviewed

  May 12, 20155,243 words Report 1560L

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• The increasing atmospheric burden of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF.sub.6).

  Authors:Peter G. Simmonds, Matthew Rigby, Alistair J. Manning, Sunyoung Park, Kieran M. Stanley, Archie McCulloch, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  June 23, 2020469 words Article We report a 40-year history of SF.sub.6 atmospheric mole fractions measured at the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) monitoring sites, combined with archived air samples, to determine emission...

• Quantifying sources of Brazil's CH.sub.4 emissions between 2010 and 2018 from satellite data.

  Authors:Rachel L. Tunnicliffe, Anita L. Ganesan, Robert J. Parker, Hartmut Boesch, Nicola Gedney, Benjamin Poulter, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 21) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 7, 2020304 words Brief article Brazil's CH.sub.4 emissions over the period 2010-2018 were derived for the three main sectors of activity: anthropogenic, wetland and biomass burning. Our inverse modelling estimates were derived from GOSAT (Greenhouse...

• Global trends and European emissions of tetrafluoromethane (CF.sub.4), hexafluoroethane (C.sub.2F.sub.6) and octafluoropropane (C.sub.3F.sub.8).

  Authors:Daniel Say, Alistair J. Manning, Luke M. Western, Dickon Young, Adam Wisher, Matthew Rigby, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 12, 2021436 words Article Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) are amongst the most potent greenhouse gases listed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). With atmospheric lifetimes on the order of thousands to tens of...

• Physical exchanges at the air-sea interface: UK-SOLAS field measurements

  Authors:Ian M. Brooks, Margaret J. Yelland, Robert C. Upstill-Goddard, Philip D. Nightingale, Steve Archer, Eric d'Asaro, et al.From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 90, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

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