Publications by authors named "Sylvia Englund Michel"

The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driving the accelerated CH growth have so far been unclear. In this work, we use measurements of the C:C ratio of CH (expressed as C) from NOAA's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network and a box model to investigate potential drivers for the rapid CH growth.

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Methane (CH) is the second most important greenhouse gas influenced by human activity. The increase in atmospheric CH concentrations contributed ~23 % to the anthropogenic radiative forcing (Saunois et al., 2020).

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Methane has the second-largest global radiative forcing impact of anthropogenic greenhouse gases after carbon dioxide, but our understanding of the global atmospheric methane budget is incomplete. The global fossil fuel industry (production and usage of natural gas, oil and coal) is thought to contribute 15 to 22 per cent of methane emissions to the total atmospheric methane budget. However, questions remain regarding methane emission trends as a result of fossil fuel industrial activity and the contribution to total methane emissions of sources from the fossil fuel industry and from natural geological seepage, which are often co-located.

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