Continuous measurements of atmospheric methane (CH4) mole fractions measured by NOAA's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network in Barrow, AK (BRW), show strong enhancements above background values when winds come from the land sector from July to December from 1986 to 2015, indicating that emissions from arctic tundra continue through autumn and into early winter. Twenty-nine years of measurements show little change in seasonal mean land sector CH4 enhancements, despite an increase in annual mean temperatures of 1.2 +/- 0.8 degrees C/decade (2s). The record does reveal small increases in CH4 enhancements in November and December after 2010 due to increased late-season emissions. The lack of significant long-term trends suggests that more complex biogeochemical processes are counteracting the observed short-term (monthly) temperature sensitivity of 5.0 +/- 3.6 ppb CH4/degrees C. Our results suggest that even the observed short-term temperature sensitivity from the Arctic will have little impact on the global atmospheric CH4 budget in the long term if future trajectories evolve with the same temperature sensitivity.
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The multiannual global mean of aerosol optical depth at 550 nm (AOD(550))over land is similar to 0.19, and that over oceans is similar to 0.13. About 45% of the Earth surface shows AOD550 smaller than 0.1. There is a need for measurement techniques t...
LaFranchi, B. W.; McFarlane, K. J.; Miller, J. B.; Lehman, S. J.; Phillips, C. L.; Andrews, A. E.; Tans, P. P.; Chen, H.; Liu, Z.; Turnbull, J. C.; Xu, X.; Guilderson, T. P.;
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2016
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Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 121(8), 2275-2295.
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Radiocarbon in CO2 ((CO2)-C-14) measurements can aid in discriminating between fast (< 1 year) and slower (> 5-10 years) cycling of C between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere due to the 14C disequilibrium between atmospheric and terrestri...
Song, H.; Marshall, J.; Munro, D. R.; Dutkiewicz, S.; Sweeney, C.; McGillicuddy, D. J.; Hausmann, U.;
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2016
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Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 121(9), 6635-6649.
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We investigate the role of mesoscale eddies in modulating air-sea CO2 flux and associated biogeochemical fields in Drake Passage using in situ observations and an eddy-resolving numerical model. Both observations and model show a negative correlation...
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The NOAA frost point hygrometer (FPH) is a balloon-borne instrument flown monthly at three sites to measure water vapor profiles up to 28 km. The FPH record from Boulder, Colorado, is the longest continuous stratospheric water vapor record. The instr...
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The SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) aboard the Envisat satellite provided measurements from August 2002 until April 2012. SCIAMACHY measured the scattered or direct sunlight using different observatio...
Alden, C. B.; Miller, J. B.; Gatti, L. V.; Gloor, M. M.; Guan, K.; Michalak, A. M.; van der Laan-Luijkx, I. T.; Touma, D.; Andrews, A.; Basso, L. S.; Correia, C. S. C.; Domingues, L. G.; Joiner, J.; Krol, M. C.; Lyapustin, A. I.; Peters, W.; Shiga, Y. P.; Thoning, K.; van der Velde, I. R.; van Leeuwen, T. T.; Yadav, V.; Diffenbaugh, N. S.;
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2016
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Global Change Biology, 22(10), 3427-3443.
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Understanding tropical rainforest carbon exchange and its response to heat and drought is critical for quantifying the effects of climate change on tropical ecosystems, including global climate-carbon feedbacks. Of particular importance for the globa...
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(9), 5665-5683.
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National annual total CO2 emissions from combustion of fossil fuels are likely known to within 5-10aEuro-% for most developed countries. However, uncertainties are inevitably larger (by unknown amounts) for emission estimates at regional and monthly ...
Nisbet, E. G.; Dlugokencky, E. J.; Manning, M. R.; Lowry, D.; Fisher, R. E.; France, J. L.; Michel, S. E.; Miller, J. B.; White, J. W. C.; Vaughn, B.; Bousquet, P.; Pyle, J. A.; Warwick, N. J.; Cain, M.; Brownlow, R.; Zazzeri, G.; Lanoiselle, M.; Manning, A. C.; Gloor, E.; Worthy, D. E. J.; Brunke, E. G.; Labuschagne, C.; Wolff, E. W.; Ganesan, A. L.;
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2016
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Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30(9), 1356-1370.
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From 2007 to 2013, the globally averaged mole fraction of methane in the atmosphere increased by 5.7 +/- 1.2 ppb yr(-1). Simultaneously, delta C-13(CH4) (a measure of the C-13/C-12 isotope ratio in methane) has shifted to significantly more negative ...
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In situ upper-air measurements are often made with instruments attached to weather balloons launched at the surface and lifted into the stratosphere. Present-day balloon-borne sensors allow near-continuous measurements from the Earth's surface to abo...
Oltmans, S. J.; Karion, A.; Schnell, R. C.; Petron, G.; Helmig, D.; Montzka, S. A.; Wolter, S.; Neff, D.; Miller, B. R.; Hueber, J.; Conley, S.; Johnson, B. J.; Sweeney, C.;
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2016
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Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene, 4: 000132.
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Instrumented aircraft measuring air composition in the Uinta Basin, Utah, during February 2012 and January-February 2013 documented dramatically different atmospheric ozone (O-3) mole fractions. In 2012 O-3 remained near levels of similar to 40 ppb i...
CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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Profiles of CFC-11 (CCl3F) and CFC-12 (CCl2F2) of the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) aboard the European satellite Envisat have been retrieved from versions MIPAS/4.61 to MI-PAS/4.62 and MIPAS/5.02 to MIPAS/5.06 lev...
Coakley, K. J.; Miller, J. B.; Montzka, S. A.; Sweeney, C.; Miller, B.;
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2016
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Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 121(12), 7489-7505.
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The measured C-14:C-12 isotopic ratio of atmospheric CO2 (and its associated derived Delta C-14 value) is an ideal tracer for determination of the fossil fuel derived CO2 enhancement contributing to any atmospheric CO2 measurement (C-ff). Given enoug...
Vollmer, M. K.; Muhle, J.; Trudinger, C. M.; Rigby, M.; Montzka, S. A.; Harth, C. M.; Miller, B. R.; Henne, S.; Krummel, P. B.; Hall, B. D.; Young, D.; Kim, J.; Arduini, J.; Wenger, A.; Yao, B.; Reimann, S.; O'Doherty, S.; Maione, M.; Etheridge, D. M.; Li, S. L.; Verdonik, D. P.; Park, S.; Dutton, G.; Steele, L. P.; Lunder, C. R.; Rhee, T. S.; Hermansen, O.; Schmidbauer, N.; Wang, R. H. J.; Hill, M.; Salameh, P. K.; Langenfelds, R. L.; Zhou, L. X.; Blunier, T.; Schwander, J.; Elkins, J. W.; Butler, J. H.; Simmonds, P. G.; Weiss, R. F.; Prinn, R. G.; Fraser, P. J.;
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2016
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Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 121(7), 3663-3686.
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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We report ground-based atmospheric measurements and emission estimates for the halons H-1211 (CBrClF2), H-1301 (CBrF3), and H-2402 (CBrF2CBrF2) from the AGAGE (Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm...
Wiggins, E. B.; Veraverbeke, S.; Henderson, J. M.; Karion, A.; Miller, J. B.; Lindaas, J.; Commane, R.; Sweeney, C.; Luus, K. A.; Tosca, M. G.; Dinardo, S. J.; Wofsy, S.; Miller, C. E.; Randerson, J. T.;
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2016
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Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 121(11), 2793-2810.
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Relationships between boreal wildfire emissions and day-to-day variations in meteorological variables are complex and have important implications for the sensitivity of high-latitude ecosystems to climate change. We examined the influence of environm...
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Carbonyl sulfide (COS) has been suggested as a useful tracer for gross primary production as it is taken up by plants in a similar way as CO2. To explore and verify the application of this novel tracer, it is highly desired to develop the ability to ...
Pandey, S.; Houweling, S.; Krol, M.; Aben, I.; Chevallier, F.; Dlugokencky, E. J.; Gatti, L. V.; Gloor, E.; Miller, J. B.; Detmers, R.; Machida, T.; Rockmann, T.;
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2016
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(8), 5043-5062.
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This study investigates the constraint provided by greenhouse gas measurements from space on surface fluxes. Imperfect knowledge of the light path through the atmosphere, arising from scattering by clouds and aerosols, can create biases in column mea...
Van Dam, B.; Helmig, D.; Doskey, P. V.; Oltmans, S. J.;
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2016
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Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 121(13), 8055-8066.
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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Atmospheric turbulence quantities, boundary layer ozone (O-3) levels, and O-3 deposition to the tundra surface were investigated at Toolik Lake, AK, during the 2011 summer season. Beginning immediately after snowmelt, a diurnal cycle of O-3 in the at...
Miller, S. M.; Miller, C. E.; Commane, R.; Chang, R. Y. W.; Dinardo, S. J.; Henderson, J. M.; Karion, A.; Lindaas, J.; Melton, J. R.; Miller, J. B.; Sweeney, C.; Wofsy, S. C.; Michalak, A. M.;
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2016
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Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30(10), 1441-1453.
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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Methane (CH4) fluxes from Alaska and other arctic regions may be sensitive to thawing permafrost and future climate change, but estimates of both current and future fluxes from the region are uncertain. This study estimates CH4 fluxes across Alaska f...
Patra, P. K.; Saeki, T.; Dlugokencky, E. J.; Ishijima, K.; Umezawa, T.; Ito, A.; Aoki, S.; Morimoto, S.; Kort, E. A.; Crotwell, A.;
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2016
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Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 94(1), 91-113.
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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Methane (CH4) plays important roles in atmospheric chemistry and short-term forcing of climate. A clear understanding of atmospheric CH4's budget of emissions and losses is required to aid sustainable management of Earth's future environment. We used...
Parazoo, N. C.; Commane, R.; Wofsy, S. C.; Koven, C. D.; Sweeney, C.; Lawrence, D. M.; Lindaas, J.; Chang, R. Y. W.; Miller, C. E.;
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2016
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(28), 7733-7738.
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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With rapid changes in climate and the seasonal amplitude of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Arctic, it is critical that we detect and quantify the underlying processes controlling the changing amplitude of CO2 to better predict carbon cycle feedbacks in ...
Hartery, S.; Commane, R.; Lindaas, J.; Sweeney, C.; Henderson, J.; Mountain, M.; Steiner, N.; McDonald, K.; Dinardo, S. J.; Miller, C. E.; Wofsy, S. C.; Chang, R. Y. W.;
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2018
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18(1), 185-202.
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Methane (CH4) is the second most important greenhouse gas but its emissions from northern regions are still poorly constrained. In this study, we analyze a subset of in situ CH4 aircraft observations made over Alaska during the growing seasons of 201...
Miller, S. M.; Miller, C. E.; Commane, R.; Chang, R. Y. W.; Dinardo, S. J.; Henderson, J. M.; Karion, A.; Lindaas, J.; Melton, J. R.; Miller, J. B.; Sweeney, C.; Wofsy, S. C.; Michalak, A. M.;
Published Date:
2016
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Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30(10), 1441-1453.
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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