The atmospheric CH4 increase since the Last Glacial Maximum: (1). Source estimates

Jérôme A. Chappellaz; Inez Y. Fung; Anne M. Thompson

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v45i3.15726

The atmospheric CH4 increase since the Last Glacial Maximum: (1). Source estimates

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 45 (1993): Issue 3

By: Jérôme A. Chappellaz, Inez Y. Fung and Anne M. Thompson

Open Access

|Jan 1993

Abstract

An estimate of the distribution of wetland area and associated CH₄ emission is presented for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 18 kyr BP, kiloyear Before Present) and the Pre-Industrial Holocene (PIH, 9000–200 years BP). The wetland source, combined with estimates of the other biogenic sources and sink, yields total source strengths of 120 and 180 Tg CH₄/yr for LGM and PIH respectively. These source strengths are shown to be consistent with source estimates inferred from a photochemical model, and point to changes in wetland CH₄ source as a major factor driving the atmospheric CH₄ increase from LGM to PIH.

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Submitted on: Mar 27, 1992

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