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The concentration of atmospheric methane has doubled over the last century from a preindustrial concentration of 0.7ppmv (parts per million by volume) to the current level of 1.7ppmv (Bolin et al., 1994; Khalil and Rasmussen, 1987). Blake and Rowland (1988) estimated the globally averaged increase of atmospheric CH4 between 1978 and 1987 to nearly 16ppbv (parts per billion by volume) yr-1; however, this increase declined substantially during the late 1980s to around lOppbv yr-1 (Bolin et al., 1994). Although the trend in CH4 increase appears to have recently declined (Khalil and Rasmussen, 1992), data from 1993 suggest that atmospheric CH4 growth rates are on the rise again (Bolin et al., 1994).
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Vourlitis, G.L., Oechel, W.C. (1997). The Role of Northern Ecosystems in the Global Methane Budget. In: Oechel, W.C., et al. Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 124. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2240-8_15
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