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Shindell et al. 2005

Shindell, D.T., G. Faluvegi, N. Bell, and G.A. Schmidt, 2005: An emissions-based view of climate forcing by methane and tropospheric ozone. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L04803, doi:10.1029/2004GL021900.

We simulate atmospheric composition changes in response to increased methane and tropospheric ozone precursor emissions from the preindustrial to present-day in a coupled chemistry-aerosol-climate model. The global annual average composition response to all emission changes is within 10% of the sum of the responses to individual emissions types, a more policy-relevant quantity. This small non-linearity between emission types permits attribution of past global mean methane and ozone radiative forcings to specific emissions despite the well-known non-linear response to emissions of a single type. The emissions-based view indicates that methane emissions have contributed a forcing of ∼0.8-0.9 W/m2, nearly double the abundance-based value, while the forcing from other ozone precursors has been quite small (∼-0.1 for NOx, ∼0.2 for CO + VOCs).

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@article{sh00300h,
  author={Shindell, D. T. and Faluvegi, G. and Bell, N. and Schmidt, G. A.},
  title={An emissions-based view of climate forcing by methane and tropospheric ozone},
  year={2005},
  journal={Geophysical Research Letters},
  volume={32},
  pages={L04803},
  doi={10.1029/2004GL021900},
}

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TY  - JOUR
ID  - sh00300h
AU  - Shindell, D. T.
AU  - Faluvegi, G.
AU  - Bell, N.
AU  - Schmidt, G. A.
PY  - 2005
TI  - An emissions-based view of climate forcing by methane and tropospheric ozone
JA  - Geophys. Res. Lett.
JO  - Geophysical Research Letters
VL  - 32
SP  - L04803
DO  - 10.1029/2004GL021900
ER  -

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