Changing trends and emissions of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and their hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs) replacements

Simmonds, Peter G.; Rigby, Matthew; McCulloch, Archie; O'Doherty, Simon; Young, Dickon; Mühle, Jens; Krummel, Paul B.; Steele, Paul; Fraser, Paul J.; Manning, Alistair J.; Weiss, Ray F.; Salameh, Peter K.; Harth, Chris M.; Wang, Ray H. J.; Prinn, Ronald G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4641-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 4641–4655, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4641-2017

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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 4641–4655, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4641-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

Research article 10 Apr 2017

Research article | 10 Apr 2017

Changing trends and emissions of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and their hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs) replacements

Peter G. Simmonds et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-4641-2017-supplement

Data sets

The ALE/GAGE/AGAGE Network (DB1001) R. G. Prinn, R. F. Weiss, P. B. Krummel, S. O'Doherty, P. J. Fraser, J. Mühle, S. Reimann, M. K. Vollmer, P. G. Simmonds, M. Maione, J. Arduini, C. R. Lunder, N. Schmidbauer, D. Young, H. J. Wang, J. Huang, M. Rigby, C. M. Harth, P. K. Salameh, T. G. Spain, L. P. Steele, T. Arnold, J. Kim, O. Hermansen, N. Derek, B. Mitrevski, and R. Langenfelds https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/atg.db1001

Short summary

This paper reports how long-term atmospheric measurements demonstrate that the Montreal Protocol has been effective in controlling production and consumption of the hydrochlorofluorocarbons, a group of industrial chemicals that have detrimental effects on the ozone layer and also contribute to global warming as greenhouse gases and their hydrofluorocarbon substitutes which are also potent greenhouse gases but do not materially affect the ozone layer.