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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11733-2016
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11733-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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21 Sep 2016
Research article |
| 21 Sep 2016
Atmospheric abundance and global emissions of perfluorocarbons CF4, C2F6 and C3F8 since 1800 inferred from ice core, firn, air archive and in situ measurements
Cathy M. Trudinger
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
Paul J. Fraser
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
David M. Etheridge
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
William T. Sturges
Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Martin K. Vollmer
Laboratory for Air Pollution and Environmental Technology, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories
for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Matt Rigby
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Patricia Martinerie
UJF-Grenoble 1/CNRS, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, 38041 Grenoble, France
Jens Mühle
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
David R. Worton
National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW, UK
Paul B. Krummel
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
L. Paul Steele
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
Benjamin R. Miller
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Johannes Laube
Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Francis S. Mani
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
Peter J. Rayner
School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
Christina M. Harth
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Emmanuel Witrant
UJF-Grenoble 1/CNRS, Grenoble Image Parole Signal Automatique, Grenoble, France
Thomas Blunier
Center for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jakob Schwander
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change
Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Simon O'Doherty
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Mark Battle
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowdoin College, Maine, USA
Data sets
The ALE / GAGE / AGAGE Network (DB1001) Ronald G. Prinn, Ray F. Weiss, Paul B. Krummel, Simon O'Doherty, Paul J. Fraser, Jens Mühle, Stefan Reimann, Martin K. Vollmer, Peter G. Simmonds, Michela Maione, Jgor Arduini, Chris R. Lunder, Norbert Schmidbauer, Dickon Young, H.J. (Ray) Wang, Jim Huang, Matthew Rigby, Chris M. Harth, Peter K. Salameh, T. Gerard Spain, L. Paul Steele, Tim Arnold, Jooil Kim, Ove Hermansen, Nada Derek, Blagoj Mitrevski, and Ray Langenfelds https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/atg.db1001
Short summary
Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) are potent, long-lived and mostly man-made greenhouse gases released to the atmosphere mainly during aluminium production and semiconductor manufacture. Here we present the first continuous histories of three PFCs from 1800 to 2014, derived from measurements of these PFCs in the atmosphere and in air bubbles in polar ice. The records show how human actions have affected these important greenhouse gases over the past century.
Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) are potent, long-lived and mostly man-made greenhouse gases released to...
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