The Role of Greenhouse Gases

2011 ◽  
pp. 58-107
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases

scholarly journals Climate Change and Aerosol Sciences

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Kehan Li
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Atmospheric Aerosols ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Modern Times

Climate change is of great importance in modern times and global warming is considered as a significant part of climate change. It is proved that human’s emissions such as greenhouse gases are one of the main sources of global warming (IPCC, 2018). Apart from greenhouse gases, there is another kind of matter being released in quantity via emissions from industries and transportations and playing an important role in global warming, which is aerosol. However, atmospheric aerosols have the net effect of cooling towards global warming. In this paper, climate change with respect to global warming is briefly introduced and the role of aerosols in the atmosphere is emphasized. Besides, properties of aerosols including dynamics and thermodynamics of aerosols as well as interactions with solar radiation are concluded. In the end, environmental policies and solutions are discussed. Keywords: Climate change, Global warming, Atmospheric aerosols, Particulate matter, Radiation, Environmental policy.

Methane production in cattle and sheep fed grass silage plus a barley based concentrate

1994 ◽  
Vol 1994 ◽  
pp. 126-126
Author(s):  
C.J. Newbold ◽  
A.R. Moss ◽  
G.S. Mollinson
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Methane Production ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Grass Silage ◽  
Cattle And Sheep

Increasing concern over the role of greenhouse gases in global warming has lead to a renewed interest in the production of methane by ruminants. Sheep are routinely used to study digestibility, however their use as a model to study methane production by cattle has received only limited attention (Blaxter and Wainman, 1964). The objective of the current study was to establish whether differences in methane production exist between sheep and cattle and to measure the magnitude of these differences under various dietary situations.

scholarly journals Changing lower stratospheric circulation: The role of ozone and greenhouse gases

1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (D10) ◽  
pp. 11251-11261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-F. Graf ◽  
Ingo Kirchner ◽  
Judith Perlwitz
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Stratospheric Circulation

scholarly journals The role of stratospheric resolution in simulating the Arctic Oscillation response to greenhouse gases

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 138-1-138-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan P. Gillett ◽  
Myles R. Allen ◽  
Keith D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Arctic Oscillation ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The Arctic Oscillation

scholarly journals Soil greenhouse gases emissions reduce the benefit of mangrove plant to mitigating atmospheric warming effect

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangcheng Chen ◽  
Bin Chen ◽  
Dan Yu ◽  
Yong Ye ◽  
Nora F. Y. Tam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Co2 Sequestration ◽  
Mangrove Ecosystem ◽  
Mangrove Plant ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gases Emissions ◽  
Mangrove Wetland ◽  
Mangrove Soils ◽  
Atmospheric Warming

Abstract. Mangrove soils have been recognized as sources of atmospheric greenhouse gases but the atmospheric fluxes are poorly characterized, and their adverse warming effect has scarcely been considered with respect to the role of mangrove wetlands in mitigating global warming. The present study balanced the warming effect of soil greenhouse gas emissions with plant carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration rate in a highly productive mangrove wetland in South China to assess the role of mangrove wetland in mitigating atmospheric warming. The results showed that mangrove soils were significant sources of greenhouse gases, and the fluxes were significantly higher in summer and also different among mangrove sites. Gases fluxes were positively correlated with the soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and NH4+-N contents. The mangrove plant was able to sequester a considerable amount of atmospheric CO2 at 5930 g CO2 m−2 yr−1 in the present study, and the ecosystem was source of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) gases but more intense CO2 sink. However, the warming effect of soil gas emissions, equivalent to 1222 g CO2 m−2 yr−1, was able to offset a large proportion (~22 %) of plant CO2 sequestration, and the two trace gases comprised ~24 % of the total warming effect. We therefore propose the assessment of the direct mitigation of atmospheric warming by mangrove ecosystem that should take into account both soil greenhouse gases emissions and plant CO2 sequestration.

ROLE OF TERRESTRIAL SEQUESTRATION IN MEETING KYOTO TARGETS

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 703
Author(s):  
I.R. Noble
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Geological Sequestration ◽  
Greenhouse Gasses ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Earth’S Climate ◽  
Global Carbon

There is strong scientific consensus that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is increasing due to human activities and that this is leading to changes in the Earth’s climate. Fluxes between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere are a significant component of the global carbon cycle and actions to increase net storage in terrestrial ecosystems (often called sinks) will delay the build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. There is still political debate as to which sinks may be accounted in compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. The decisions made will affect the total costs of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol by a factor or two to four. Geological sequestration may also reduce emissions by an amount of the same order as sequestration in terrestrial sinks. Biological and geological sequestration offer a significant opportunity to buy several decades of time to make an efficient transition to technologies and economies that release less greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere from energy production and industrial processes.

Terrestrial Processes and Their Roles in Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré ◽  
Andrew J. Pitman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Seasonal Cycle ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Surface Processes ◽  
Climate Modelling ◽  
Climate Simulations

The land surface is where humans live and where they source their water and food. The land surface plays an important role in climate and anthropogenic climate change both as a driver of change and as a system that responds to change. Soils and vegetation influence the exchanges of water, energy and carbon between the land and the overlying atmosphere and thus contribute to the variability and the evolution of climate. But the role of the land in climate is scale dependent which means different processes matter on different timescales and over different spatial scales. Climate change alters the functioning of the land with changes in the seasonal cycle of ecosystem growth, in the extent of forests, the melt of permafrost, the magnitude and frequency of disturbances such as fire, drought, … Those changes feedback into climate at both the global and the regional scales. In addition, humans perturb the land conditions via deforestation, irrigation, urbanization, … and this directly affects climatic conditions at the local to regional scales with also sometimes global consequences via the release of greenhouse gases. Not accounting for land surface processes in climate modelling, whatever the spatial scale, will result in biases in the climate simulations.

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