ISOMET
Atmospheric content of the most abundant of 12CH4 isotopologues from ground-based and satellite infrared solar observations and development of a methane isotopic GEOS-Chem module.
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Project "ISOMET" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Belgium [BE] |
| Project website | http://labos.ulg.ac.be/girpas/ |
| Total cost | 165˙211 € |
| EC max contribution | 165˙211 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility) |
| Code Call | H2020-MSCA-IF-2015 |
| Funding Scheme | MSCA-IF-GF |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-10-01 to 2018-09-30 |
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| 1 | UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE | BE (LIEGE) | coordinator | 165˙211.00 |
| 2 | THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | CA (TORONTO) | partner | 0.00 |
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Project objective
Atmospheric methane (CH4), the second most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, contributed to one-fifth of the increase in radiative forcing by human-linked greenhouse gases since 1750. The recent increase of its abundance since 2005 is not fully understood and the changes in the source(s) or sink(s) responsible for it have yet to be identified and quantified. The main isotopologues of 12CH4, i.e. 13CH4 and CH3D or heavy methane, are emitted with different isotopic ratios specific to emission sources and are depleted at different rates. Thus, they act as unique tracers and can provide additional constraints on the regional, hemispheric and global methane budgets. Since no ground-based infrared solar observations have been exploited thus far to retrieve heavy methane concentrations, the first objective is to develop a retrieval strategy for these species from observations collected at three complementary sites member of the Network for Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC): Eureka (Arctic, Canada), Jungfraujoch (Swiss Alps) and Toronto (ON, Canada); later applicable to the whole network. Satellite observations from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) providing high vertical resolution and broad spatial coverage will also be included as well as spectra from a portable instrument to match future requirements of methane mapping. The proposed project will also include the development of a methane isotopic module for the chemical transport model GEOS-Chem built on the isotopologue properties. The simulation will be compared with produced and available observations and will be evaluated in terms of absolute value, seasonal cycle and trend in parallel with observations. This newly developed module will allow us to provide a spatially global answer to the question of the methane budget. This project thus plays a key role in the highly topical issues of air quality and climate change.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |
Kevin S. Olsen, Kimberly Strong, Kaley A. Walker, Chris D. Boone, Piera Raspollini, Johannes Plieninger, Whitney Bader, Stephanie Conway, Michel Grutter, James W. Hannigan, Frank Hase, Nicholas Jones, Martine de Mazière, Justus Notholt, Matthias Schneider, Dan Smale, Ralf Sussmann, Naoko Saitoh Comparison of the GOSAT TANSO-FTS TIR CH volume mixing ratio vertical profiles with those measured by ACE-FTS, ESA MIPAS, IMK-IAA MIPAS, and 16 NDACC stations published pages: 3697-3718, ISSN: 1867-8548, DOI: 10.5194/amt-10-3697-2017 |
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 10/10 | 2019-07-25 |
| 2017 |
Whitney Bader, Benoît Bovy, Stephanie Conway, Kimberly Strong, Dan Smale, Alexander J. Turner, Thomas Blumenstock, Chris Boone, Martine Collaud Coen, Ancelin Coulon, Omaira Garcia, David W. T. Griffith, Frank Hase, Petra Hausmann, Nicholas Jones, Paul Krummel, Isao Murata, Isamu Morino, Hideaki Nakajima, Simon O'Doherty, Clare Paton-Walsh, John Robinson, Rodrigue Sandrin, Matthias Schneider, Christian Servais, Ralf Sussmann, Emmanuel Mahieu The recent increase of atmospheric methane from 10 years of ground-based NDACC FTIR observations since 2005 published pages: 2255-2277, ISSN: 1680-7324, DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-2255-2017 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17/3 | 2019-07-25 |
| 2017 |
Mahieu, Emmanuel; Bader, Whitney; Bovy, Benoît; Demoulin, Philippe; Flock, Olivier; Franco, Bruno; Lejeune, Bernard; Prignon, Maxime; Roland, G; Servais, Christian Surveillance de l\'atmosphère terrestre depuis la station du Jungfraujoch : une épopée liégeoise entamée voici plus de 65 ans ! published pages: 119-130, ISSN: 0583-8622, DOI: |
Surveillance de l\'atmosphère terrestre depuis la station du Jungfraujoch : une épopée liégeoise entamée voici plus de 65 ans ! Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, 68, 119--130.Liège, BelgiumSociété Géographique de Liège. (2017). Hommage au Professeur Michel Er | 2019-07-25 |
| 2018 |
Minqiang Zhou, Bavo Langerock, Corinne Vigouroux, Mahesh Kumar Sha, Michel Ramonet, Marc Delmotte, Emmanuel Mahieu, Whitney Bader, Christian Hermans, Nicolas Kumps, Jean-Marc Metzger, Valentin Duflot, Zhiting Wang, Mathias Palm, Martine De Mazière Atmospheric CO and CH<sub>4</sub> time series and seasonal variations on Reunion Island from ground-based in situ and FTIR (NDACC and TCCON) measurements published pages: 13881-13901, ISSN: 1680-7324, DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-13881-2018 |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18/19 | 2019-07-25 |
| 2017 |
Bader, Whitney
Strong, Kimberley
Walker, Kaley
Buzan, Eric First retrievals of methane isotopologues from FTIR ground-basedobservations published pages: EGU2017-10344, ISSN: , DOI: |
Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 19 | 2019-07-25 |
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