Model analysis of the factors regulating the trends and variability of methane, CO2 and OH

SPONSOR:

National Aeronautics & Space Administration

FUNDED AMOUNT:

$210,665

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS:

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

PUBLICATIONS:

Murray, L.T., A.M. Fiore, J.X. Warner, L.N. Lamsal, S.A. Montzka, R.G. Prinn, R.F. Weiss, G.A. Schmidt, A space-based proxy for tropospheric hydroxyl variability, in preparation for Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.

Fiore, A. M., Fischer, E. V., Milly, G. P., Pandey Deolal, S., Wild, O., Jaffe, D. A., Staehelin, J., Clifton, O. E., Bergmann, D., Collins, W., Dentener, F., Doherty, R. M., Duncan, B. N., Fischer, B., Gilge, S., Hess, P. G., Horowitz, L. W., Lupu, A., MacKenzie, I. A., Park, R., Ries, L., Sanderson, M. G., Schultz, M. G., Shindell, D. T., Steinbacher, M., Stevenson, D. S., Szopa, S., Zellweger, C., and Zeng, G.: Peroxy acetyl nitrate (PAN) measurements at northern midlatitude mountain sites in April: a constraint on continental source–receptor relationships, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 15345–15361, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15345-2018, 2018.

Valin, L. C., A. M. Fiore, K. Chance, and G. González Abad (2016), The role of OH production in interpreting the variability of CH2O columns in the southeast U.S., J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 478–493, doi:10.1002/2015JD024012.

KEYWORDS

hydroxyl radical long-range pollution transport global chemistry-climate models methane (CH4) oxidizing capacity

THEMES

Modeling and Adapting to Future Climate