Authors
Hanqin Tian, Rongting Xu, Josep G Canadell, Rona L Thompson, Wilfried Winiwarter, Parvadha Suntharalingam, Eric A Davidson, Philippe Ciais, Robert B Jackson, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Michael J Prather, Pierre Regnier, Naiqing Pan, Shufen Pan, Glen P Peters, Hao Shi, Francesco N Tubiello, Sönke Zaehle, Feng Zhou, Almut Arneth, Gianna Battaglia, Sarah Berthet, Laurent Bopp, Alexander F Bouwman, Erik T Buitenhuis, Jinfeng Chang, Martyn P Chipperfield, Shree RS Dangal, Edward Dlugokencky, James W Elkins, Bradley D Eyre, Bojie Fu, Bradley Hall, Akihiko Ito, Fortunat Joos, Paul B Krummel, Angela Landolfi, Goulven G Laruelle, Ronny Lauerwald, Wei Li, Sebastian Lienert, Taylor Maavara, Michael MacLeod, Dylan B Millet, Stefan Olin, Prabir K Patra, Ronald G Prinn, Peter A Raymond, Daniel J Ruiz, Guido R van der Werf, Nicolas Vuichard, Junjie Wang, Ray F Weiss, Kelley C Wells, Chris Wilson, Jia Yang, Yuanzhi Yao
Publication date
2020/10
Journal
Nature
Volume
586
Issue
7828
Pages
248-256
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Description
Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), like carbon dioxide, is a long-lived greenhouse gas that accumulates in the atmosphere. Over the past 150 years, increasing atmospheric N 2 O concentrations have contributed to stratospheric ozone depletion 1 and climate change 2, with the current rate of increase estimated at 2 per cent per decade. Existing national inventories do not provide a full picture of N 2 O emissions, owing to their omission of natural sources and limitations in methodology for attributing anthropogenic sources. Here we present a global N 2 O inventory that incorporates both natural and anthropogenic sources and accounts for the interaction between nitrogen additions and the biochemical processes that control N 2 O emissions. We use bottom-up (inventory, statistical extrapolation of flux measurements, process-based land and ocean modelling) and top-down (atmospheric inversion) approaches to provide a …
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