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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4539-2017
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Constraining N2O emissions since 1940 using firn air isotope measurements in both hemispheres
Markella Prokopiou
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Patricia Martinerie
University of Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, IRD, IGE, 38000 Grenoble,
France
Célia J. Sapart
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Laboratoire de Glaciologie, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Emmanuel Witrant
University of Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, GIPSA-lab, 38000 Grenoble, France
Guillaume Monteil
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund
University, Lund, Sweden
Kentaro Ishijima
National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
Sophie Bernard
University of Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, IRD, IGE, 38000 Grenoble,
France
Jan Kaiser
Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental
Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Ingeborg Levin
Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
Thomas Blunier
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,
Denmark
David Etheridge
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Victoria, Australia
Ed Dlugokencky
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Roderik S. W. van de Wal
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Thomas Röckmann
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
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- Seasonal effects reveal potential mitigation strategies to reduce N2O emission and N leaching from grassland swards of differing composition (grass monoculture, grass/clover and multispecies) C. Bracken et al. 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108187
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- Stratospheric carbon isotope fractionation and tropospheric histories of CFC-11, CFC-12, and CFC-113 isotopologues M. Thomas et al. 10.5194/acp-21-6857-2021
- Characterization of in situ cosmogenic 14CO production, retention and loss in firn and shallow ice at Summit, Greenland B. Hmiel et al. 10.5194/tc-18-3363-2024
- Denitrifying pathways dominate nitrous oxide emissions from managed grassland during drought and rewetting E. Harris et al. 10.1126/sciadv.abb7118
- Concentration and Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric N2O Over the Last Century S. Ghosh et al. 10.1029/2022JD038281
- N2O isotopocule measurements using laser spectroscopy: analyzer characterization and intercomparison S. Harris et al. 10.5194/amt-13-2797-2020
- Source partitioning using N2O isotopomers and soil WFPS to establish dominant N2O production pathways from different pasture sward compositions C. Bracken et al. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146515
- The isotopic composition of atmospheric nitrous oxide observed at the high-altitude research station Jungfraujoch, Switzerland L. Yu et al. 10.5194/acp-20-6495-2020
- Warming and redistribution of nitrogen inputs drive an increase in terrestrial nitrous oxide emission factor E. Harris et al. 10.1038/s41467-022-32001-z
- 3‐D Atmospheric Modeling of the Global Budget of N2O and Its Isotopologues for 1980–2019: The Impact of Anthropogenic Emissions Q. Liang et al. 10.1029/2021GB007202
- Revised records of atmospheric trace gases CO2, CH4, N2O, and δ13C-CO2 over the last 2000 years from Law Dome, Antarctica M. Rubino et al. 10.5194/essd-11-473-2019
- Sources and sinks for N2O, can microbiologist help to mitigate N2O emissions? L. Bakken & Å. Frostegård 10.1111/1462-2920.13978
- Seasonal effects reveal potential mitigation strategies to reduce N2O emission and N leaching from grassland swards of differing composition (grass monoculture, grass/clover and multispecies) C. Bracken et al. 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108187
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Short summary
Nitrous oxide is the third most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas with an increasing mole fraction. To understand its natural and anthropogenic sources
we employ isotope measurements. Results show that while the N2O mole fraction increases, its heavy isotope content decreases. The isotopic changes observed underline the dominance of agricultural emissions especially at the early part of the record, whereas in the later decades the contribution from other anthropogenic sources increases.
Nitrous oxide is the third most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas with an increasing mole...
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