Team develops new method to gauge atmosphere's ability to clear methane, a potent greenhouse gas - Phys.org
The “flying laboratory”: Instruments inside the NASA research aircraft used for Glenn Wolfe’s research. Credit: NASA. New research by UMBC's Glenn Wolfe and collaborators is shaping how scientists understand the fate of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in Earth's atmosphere. Of the greenhouse gases, methane has the third greatest overall effect on climate after carbon dioxide and water vapor. And the longer it stays in the atmosphere, the more heat it traps. That's why it's essential for climate models to properly represent how long methane lasts before it's broken down. That happens when ...