Linking ozone pollution and climate change: The case for controlling methane

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Oct 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29s..25f&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 19, pp. 25-1, CiteID 1919, DOI 10.1029/2002GL015601

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Evolution Of The Atmosphere, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Pollution-Urban And Regional (0305), Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Troposphere-Constituent Transport And Chemistry

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Methane (CH4) emission controls are found to be a powerful lever for reducing both global warming and air pollution via decreases in background tropospheric ozone (O3). Reducing anthropogenic CH4 emissions by 50% nearly halves the incidence of U.S. high-O3 events and lowers global radiative forcing by 0.37 W m-2 (0.30 W m-2 from CH4, 0.07 W m-2 from O3) in a 3-D model of tropospheric chemistry. A 2030 simulation based upon IPCC A1 emissions projections shows a longer and more intense U.S. O3 pollution season despite domestic emission reductions, indicating that intercontinental transport and a rising O3 background should be considered when setting air quality goals.

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