[GGR] Methane discussion meetings at Royal Society
Renaud de RICHTER
Rising methane: is warming feeding warming?
Discussion meeting
Starts: October 04, 2021 09:00
Ends: October 07, 2021 17:00
Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Euan Nisbet, Professor Ute Skiba, Dr Anna Jones and Professor John Pyle FRS.
Atmospheric methane is rising rapidly. The rise is making it more difficult to reach the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. But the reasons for methane’s growth and concurrent isotopic shift are unclear: sources may be increasing, sinks may be declining, or both processes taking place. Is this a climate change impact? Is the warming feeding the warming?
The schedule of talks and speaker biographies and abstracts are available. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
Renaud de RICHTER
Session 1, 12:55-15:00 ; Session 2 15:00-18:10 on the Methane discussion meetings at Royal Society
13:00-13:25 Global atmospheric methane models: a sensitivity analysis
Dr Angharad Stell, University of Bristol, UK
13:35-14:00 Extreme weather in Europe 2018 – a natural experiment to examine the effect on methane emissions
Dr Rona Thompson, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway
14:10-14:35 The satellite view
Professor Sander Houweling, Vrije Universiteit and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, The Netherlands
15:00-15:25 Time-varying constraints on atmospheric hydroxyl derived from methyl chloroform observations
Dr Stephen Montzka, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA
15:35-16:00 Observational constraints on the global methane budget
Dr Xin Lan, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, Global Monitoring Laboratory and
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Dr Ed Dlugokencky, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA
16:10-16:20 Atmospheric δ13C(CH4): an honest assessment from the closed-toed shoes in the lab
Sylvia Englund Michel, INSTAAR, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
16:20-16:30 The isotopic insight
Dr Rebecca Fisher, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
17:00-17:25 Using satellite measurements to interpret changes in atmospheric methane
Professor Paul Palmer, University of Edinburgh, UK
17:35-18:00 Evaluation of the UK’s methane emissions using atmospheric data: current capability and future directions
Professor Matthew Rigby, University of Bristol, UK