Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4699-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-4699-2021
Technical note
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26 Mar 2021
Technical note |  | 26 Mar 2021

Technical note: On comparing greenhouse gas emission metrics

Ian Enting and Nathan Clisby

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We provide a new framework for comparing short-lived greenhouse gases to long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide using methane as an example. This can clarify the differences between various proposals that have been introduced in order to overcome the use of global warming potentials as a measure of greenhouse gas equivalence.
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