Methane, Ozone and the Carbon Budget for 1.5 degrees (MOC1.5)

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项目编号	NE/P014909/1
	Methane, Ozone and the Carbon Budget for 1.5 degrees (MOC1.5)
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主持机构	University of Reading
项目开始年	2016
	2016-10-31
项目结束日期	2017-10-30
资助机构	UK-NERC
项目类别	Research Grant
国家	英国
语种	英语
英文摘要	It will be very challenging to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, and even more so to achieve the ambition of restricting temperatures below a 1.5 degree increase. While restricting carbon dioxide emissions must form the central part of any strategy, reducing other greenhouse gases such as methane can play an important role. Reducing levels of methane can increase the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This happens in two ways. Decreasing methane will decrease surface temperatures reducing the carbon dioxide lost from soils and leaves (for carbon dioxide this is already accounted for, but for methane this has previously been neglected). Decreasing methane will decrease levels of ozone, a gas that is poisonous to plants (and people), and hence increase plant growth. This project will use computer models of the chemistry of the atmosphere, of vegetation growth, and of the carbon cycle to simulate the total climate impact (including the increased carbon uptake) of a realistic methane reduction scenario. This will give policymakers a better understand of the climate impacts of methane reduction and allow them to better judge the balance between carbon dioxide and methane mitigation measures in the total package of climate policy solutions. A useful co-benefit of this project will be to calculate the air quality benefits (to people and crops) of the methane mitigation.
来源学科分类	Natural Environment Research
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/86381
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	[unavailable].Methane, Ozone and the Carbon Budget for 1.5 degrees (MOC1.5).2016.