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Research article
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28 Jul 2022
Research article |
| 28 Jul 2022
| 28 Jul 2022
A renewed rise in global HCFC-141b emissions between 2017–2021
Luke M. Western
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Global Monitoring Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Alison L. Redington
Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, UK
Alistair J. Manning
Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, UK
Cathy M. Trudinger
Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
Global Monitoring Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Stephan Henne
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Xuekun Fang
College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Lambert J. M. Kuijpers
A/gent b.v. Consultancy, Venlo, Netherlands
Christina Theodoridi
Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC, USA
David S. Godwin
Stratospheric Protection Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
Jgor Arduini
Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
Bronwyn Dunse
Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
Andreas Engel
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Paul J. Fraser
Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
Christina M. Harth
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Paul B. Krummel
Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
Michela Maione
Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy
Jens Mühle
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Simon O'Doherty
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Hyeri Park
Department of Oceanography, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Sunyoung Park
Department of Oceanography, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Stefan Reimann
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Peter K. Salameh
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Daniel Say
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Roland Schmidt
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Tanja Schuck
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Carolina Siso
Global Monitoring Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Kieran M. Stanley
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Isaac Vimont
Global Monitoring Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Martin K. Vollmer
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Dickon Young
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Ronald G. Prinn
Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Ray F. Weiss
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Stephen A. Montzka
Global Monitoring Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
Matthew Rigby
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Data sets
AGAGE Data R. Prinn, R. Weiss, J. Arduini, T. Arnold, H. L. DeWitt, P. Fraser, A. Ganesan, J. Gasore, C. Harth, O. Hermansen, J. Kim, P. Krummel, Z. Loh, C. Lunder, M. Maione, A. Manning, B. Miller, B. Mitrevski, J. Mühle, S. O'Doherty, S. Park, S. Reimann, M. Rigby, T. Saito, and P. Salameh Schmidt, R., Simmonds, P., Steele, P., Vollmer, M., Hsiang-Jui~(Ray), W., Yao, B., Young, D., and Zhou, L. https://doi.org/10.15485/1841748
Model code and software
R Packages For Atmospheric Emission Inversion Stephan Henne https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1194642
ACRG-Bristol/acrg: ACRG v0.2.0 (v0.2.0) Matt Rigby, Rachel Tunnicliffe, lukewestern, hanchawn, ag12733, aliceramsden, Gareth Jones, Dickon Young, Rebecca Ward, Angharad, ANickless-Bristol, and joe-pitt https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6834888
mrghg/py12box: v0.2.1 (v0.2.1) M. Rigby and L. Western https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6857447
Short summary
The production of ozone-destroying gases is being phased out. Even though production of one of the main ozone-depleting gases, called HCFC-141b, has been declining for many years, the amount that is being released to the atmosphere has been increasing since 2017. We do not know for sure why this is. A possible explanation is that HCFC-141b that was used to make insulating foams many years ago is only now escaping to the atmosphere, or a large part of its production is not being reported.
The production of ozone-destroying gases is being phased out. Even though production of one of...
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