Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-393-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-393-2021
Measurement report
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14 Jan 2021
Measurement report |  | 14 Jan 2021

Measurement report: Changing characteristics of atmospheric CH4 in the Tibetan Plateau: records from 1994 to 2019 at the Mount Waliguan station

Shuo Liu, Shuangxi Fang, Peng Liu, Miao Liang, Minrui Guo, and Zhaozhong Feng

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High resolution temporal profiles in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) M. Crippa, E. Solazzo, G. Huang, D. Guizzardi, E. Koffi, M. Muntean, C. Schieberle, R. Friedrich, and G. Janssens-Maenhout https://doi.org/10.2904/JRC_DATASET_EDGAR

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We analyzed 26-year CH4 measurements at Mount Waliguan in the Tibetan Plateau, China. The CH4 increased ~ 133 parts per billion (ppb) with a rate of 5.1 ± 0.1 ppb yr-1 from 1994 to 2019. Major source regions were identified in northeast and southwest. The influence of human activities is more and more serious, and northern India has possibly become a stronger contributor than city regions were in the past. It has become urgent to control CH4 emissions in the Tibetan Plateau.
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