Hydroxyl Radical (OH) Response to Meteorological Forcing and Implication for the Methane Budget

Autor: Jian He, Vaishali Naik, Larry Wayne Horowitz
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 48, Iss 16, Pp n/a-n/a (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1944-8007
0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL094140
Popis: Abstract The hydroxyl radical (OH) is a powerful oxidant in the troposphere controlling the atmospheric lifetimes of many short‐lived climate forcers such as methane. In this study, the GFDL‐AM4.1 model is used to investigate the meteorological impacts on OH and the methane budget and lifetime over 1980–2017. Driven by meteorological reanalyses from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Modern‐Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (Version 2), our model gives an 11.2 Tg yr−1 difference in the derived methane emissions and 0.24 years difference in the estimated methane lifetime. The results suggest that meteorology affects the mean OH concentrations but not OH trend, while the latter shows strong correlation with reactive nitrogen emissions. Despite the relatively small difference in global tropospheric OH (∼2%) induced by different meteorological forcings, the difference is much larger regionally, leading to a difference of 8 Tg yr−1 in tropical methane emissions.
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