• A complete rethink is needed on how greenhouse gas emissions are quantified for national reporting 

      Leip, Adrian; Skiba, Ute; Vermeulen, Alex; Thompson, Rona Louise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    • Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion 

      Thompson, Rona Louise; Lassaletta, Luis; Patra, Prabir K.; Wilson, Chris; Wells, Kelley C.; Gressent, Alicia; Koffi, Ernest N.; Chipperfield, Martyn P.; Winiwarter, Wilfried; Davidson, Eric A.; Tian, Hanqin; Canadell, Josep G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
    • Annual cycle of Antarctic baseline aerosol: Controlled by photooxidation-limited aerosol formation 

      Fiebig, Markus; Hirdman, David Arne; Lunder, Chris Rene; Ogren, John A.; Solberg, Sverre; Stohl, Andreas; Thompson, Rona Louise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    • Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations 

      Thompson, Rona Louise; Broquet, G; Gerbig, C.; Koch, T; Lang, M.; Monteil, Guillaume; Munassar, S; Nickless, Alecia; Scholze, M.; Ramonet, Michel; Karstens, Ute; van Schaik, Erik; Wu, Z; Rödenbeck, C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The 2018 drought was one of the worst European droughts of the twenty-first century in terms of its severity, extent and duration. The effects of the drought could be seen in a reduction in harvest yields in parts of Europe, ...
    • The Community Inversion Framework v1.0: a unified system for atmospheric inversion studies 

      Berchet, Antoine; Sollum, Espen; Thompson, Rona Louise; Pison, Isabelle; Thanwerdas, Joel; Broquet, Grégoire; Chevallier, Frédéric; Aalto, Tuula; Berchet, Adrien; Bergamaschi, Peter; Brunner, Dominik; Engelen, Richard; Fortems-Cheiney, Audrey; Gerbig, Christoph; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Haussaire, Jean-Matthieu; Henne, Stephan; Houweling, Sanne; Karstens, Ute; Kutsch, Werner L.; Luijkx, Ingrid T.; Monteil, Guillaume; Palmer, Paul I.; van Peet, Jacob C. A.; Peters, Wouter; Peylin, Philippe; Potier, Elise; Rödenbeck, Christian; Saunois, Marielle; Scholze, Marko; Tsuruta, Aki; Zhao, Yuanhong (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Atmospheric inversion approaches are expected to play a critical role in future observation-based monitoring systems for surface fluxes of greenhouse gases (GHGs), pollutants and other trace gases. In the past decade, the ...
    • Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions 

      Deng, Zhu; Ciais, Philippe; Tzompa-Sosa, Zitely A.; Saunois, Marielle; Qiu, Chunjing; Tan, Chang; Sun, Taochun; Ke, Piyu; Cui, Yanan; Tanaka, Katsumasa; Lin, Xin; Thompson, Rona Louise; Tian, Hanqin; Yao, Yuanzhi; Huang, Yuanyuan; Lauerwald, Ronny; Jain, Atul K.; Xu, Xiaoming; Bastos, Ana; Palmer, Paul I.; Lauvaux, Thomas; d'Aspremont, Alexandre; Giron, Clément; Benoit, Antoine; Poulter, Benjamin; Chang, Jinfeng; Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana; Davis, Steven J; Liu, Zhu; Grassi, Giacomo; Albergel, Clement; Tubiello, Francesco N.; Perugini, Lucia; Peters, Wouter; Chevallier, Frederic (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In support of the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement on climate change, this study presents a comprehensive framework to process the results of an ensemble of atmospheric inversions in order to make their net ecosystem ...
    • Comparison of four inverse modelling systems applied to the estimation of HFC-125, HFC-134a, and SF6 emissions over Europe 

      Brunner, Dominik; Arnold, Tim; Henne, Stephan; Manning, Alistair J.; Thompson, Rona Louise; Maione, Michela; O'Doherty, Simon; Reimann, Stefan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are used in a range of industrial applications and have largely replaced previously used gases (CFCs and HCFCs). HFCs are not ozone-depleting but have large global warming potentials and are, ...
    • A comprehensive evaluation of the use of Lagrangian particle dispersion models for inverse modeling of greenhouse gas emissions 

      Vojta, Martin; Plach, Andreas; Thompson, Rona Louise; Stohl, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Using the example of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), we investigate the use of Lagrangian particle dispersion models (LPDMs) for inverse modeling of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and explore the limitations of this approach. ...
    • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks 

      Tian, Hanqin; Xu, Rongting; Canadell, Josep G.; Thompson, Rona Louise; Winiwarter, Wilfried; Suntharalingam, Parvadha; Davidson, Eric A.; Ciais, Philippe; Jackson, Robert B.; Janssens-Maenhout, Greet; Prather, Michael J.; Regnier, Pierre; Pan, Naiqing; Pan, Shufen; Peters, Glen Philip; Shi, Hao; Tubiello, Francesco N.; Zaehle, Sönke; Zhou, Feng; Arneth, Almut; Battaglia, Gianna; Berthet, Sarah; Bopp, Laurent; Bouwman, Alexander F.; Buitenhuis, Erik T.; Chang, Jinfeng; Chipperfield, Martyn P.; Dangal, Shree R, S,; Dlugokencky, Edward; Elkins, James W.; Eyre, Bradley D.; Fu, Bojie; Hall, Bradley; Ito, Akihiko; Joos, Fortunat; Krummel, Paul B.; Landolfi, Angela; Laruelle, Goulven G.; Lauerwald, Ronny; Li, Wei; Lienert, Sebastian; Maavara, Taylor; Macleod, Michael; Millet, Dylan B.; Olin, Stefan; Patra, Prabir K.; Prinn, Ronald G.; Raymond, Peter A.; Ruiz, Daniel J.; van der Werf, Guido R.; Vuichard, Nicolas; Wang, Junjie; Weiss, Ray F.; Wells, Kelley C.; Wilson, Chris; Yang, Jia; Yao, Yuanzhi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Nitrous oxide (N2O), like carbon dioxide, is a long-lived greenhouse gas that accumulates in the atmosphere. Over the past 150 years, increasing atmospheric N2O concentrations have contributed to stratospheric ozone ...
    • The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2017 

      Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana; Qiu, Chunjing; Ciais, Philippe; Thompson, Rona Louise; Peylin, Philippe; McGrath, Matthew J; Solazzo, Efisio; Janssens-Maenhout, Greet; Tubiello, Francesco N.; Bergamaschi, Peter; Brunner, Dominik; Peters, Glen Philip; Hoglund-Isaksson, Lena; Regnier, Pierre; Lauerwald, Ronny; Bastviken, David; Tsuruta, Aki; Winiwarter, Wilfried; Patra, Prabir K.; Kuhnert, Matthias; Oreggioni, Gabriel David; Crippa, Monica; Saunois, Marielle; Perugini, Lucia; Markkanen, Tiina; Aalto, Tuula; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Yao, Yuanzhi; Wilson, Chris; Conchedda, Giulia; Günther, Dirk; Leip, Adrian; Smith, Pete; Haussaire, Jean-Matthieu; Leppänen, Antti; Manning, Alistair J.; McNorton, Joe; Brockmann, Patrick; Dolman, Albertus Johannes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Reliable quantification of the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, together with trends and uncertainties, is essential to monitoring the progress in mitigating anthropogenic emissions under the Paris Agreement. This ...
    • The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2019 

      Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana; Qiu, Chunjing; McGrath, Matthew J; Peylin, Philippe; Peters, Glen Philip; Ciais, Philippe; Thompson, Rona Louise; Tsuruta, Aki; Brunner, Dominik; Kuhnert, Matthias; Matthews, Bradley; Palmer, Paul I.; Tarasova, Oksana; Regnier, Pierre; Lauerwald, Ronny; Bastviken, David; Hoglund-Isaksson, Lena; Winiwarter, Wilfried; Etiope, Giuseppe; Aalto, Tuula; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Bastrikov, Vladislav; Berchet, Antoine; Brockmann, Patrick; Ciotoli, Giancarlo; Conchedda, Giulia; Monica, Crippa; Dentener, Frank; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Guizzardi, Diego; Günther, Dirk (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Knowledge of the spatial distribution of the fluxes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and their temporal variability as well as flux attribution to natural and anthropogenic processes is essential to monitoring the progress in ...
    • The consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2018 

      Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana; McGrath, Matthew J; Andrew, Robbie; Peylin, Philippe; Peters, Glen Philip; Ciais, Philippe; Thompson, Rona Louise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Paris Agreement. This study provides a consolidated synthesis of estimates for all anthropogenic and natural sources and sinks of CO2 for the European Union and UK (EU27 + UK), derived from a combination of state-of-the-art ...
    • The consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2020 

      McGrath, Matthew J; Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana; Peylin, Philippe; Andrew, Robbie M.; Matthews, Bradley; Dentener, Frank; Balkovič, Juraj; Bastrikov, Vladislav; Becker, Meike; Broquet, Gregoire; Ciais, Philippe; Fortems-Cheiney, Audrey; Ganzenmüller, Raphael; Grassi, Giacomo; Harrison, Ian; Jones, Carl Matthew; Knauer, Jürgen; Kuhnert, Matthias; Monteil, Guillaume; Munassar, Saqr; Palmer, Paul I.; Peters, Glen Philip; Qiu, Chunjing; Schelhaas, Mart-Jan; Tarasova, Oksana; Vizzarri, Matteo; Winkler, Karina; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Berchet, Antoine; Briggs, Peter R; Brockmann, Patrick; Chevallier, Frédéric; Conchedda, Giulia; Monica, Crippa; Dellaert, Stijn N. C.; van der Gon, Hugo A.C. Denier; Filipek, Sara; Friedlingstein, Pierre; Fuchs, Richard; Gauss, Michael; Gerbig, Christoph; Guizzardi, Diego; Günther, Dirk; Houghton, Richard A; Janssens-Maenhout, Greet; Lauerwald, Ronny; Lerink, Bas; Luijkx, Ingrid T.; Moulas, Géraud; Muntean, Marilena; Nabuurs, Gert-Jan; Paquirissamy, Aurélie; Perugini, Lucia; Peters, Wouter; Pilli, Roberto; Pongratz, Julia; Regnier, Pierre; Scholze, Marko; Serengil, Yusuf; Smith, Peter; Solazzo, Efisio; Thompson, Rona Louise; Tubiello, Francesco N.; Vesala, Timo; Walther, Sophia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Knowledge of the spatial distribution of the fluxes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and their temporal variability as well as flux attribution to natural and anthropogenic processes is essential to monitoring the progress in ...
    • Effects of extreme meteorological conditions in 2018 on European methane emissions estimated using atmospheric inversions 

      Thompson, Rona Louise; Zwaaftink, Christine Groot; Brunner, D; Tsuruta, Aki; Aalto, T.; Raivonen, M; Crippa, M.; Solazzo, Efisio; Guizzardi, D.; Regnier, P.; Maisonnier, M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The effect of the 2018 extreme meteorological conditions in Europe on methane (CH4) emissions is examined using estimates from four atmospheric inversions calculated for the period 2005–2018. For most of Europe, we find ...
    • Emissions of Tetrafluoromethane (CF4) and Hexafluoroethane (C2F6) From East Asia: 2008 to 2019 

      Kim, Jooil; Thompson, Rona Louise; Park, Hyeri; Bogle, Stephanie; Mühle, Jens; Park, Mi-Kyung; Kim, Yeaseul; Harth, Christina M.; Salameh, Peter K.; Schmidt, Roland; Ottinger, Deborah; Park, Sunyoung; Weiss, Ray F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The perfluorocarbons (PFCs), tetrafluoromethane (CF4) and hexafluoroethane (C2F6), are potent greenhouse gases with very long atmospheric lifetimes. They are emitted almost entirely from industrial sources, including the ...
    • Estimating methane emissions in the Arctic nations using surface observations from 2008 to 2019 

      Wittig, Sophie; Berchet, Antoine; Pison, Isabelle; Saunois, Marielle; Thanwerdas, Joel; Martinez, Adrien; Paris, Jean-Daniel; Machida, Toshinobu; Sasakawa, Motoki; Worthy, Doug E.J.; Lan, Xin; Thompson, Rona Louise; Sollum, Espen; Arshinov, Mikhail (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The Arctic is a critical region in terms of global warming. Environmental changes are already progressing steadily in high northern latitudes, whereby, among other effects, a high potential for enhanced methane (CH4) ...
    • Evaluation and Global-Scale Observation of Nitrous Oxide from IASI on Metop-A 

      Chalinel, Rémi; Attié, Jean-Luc; Ricaud, Philippe; Vidot, Jérôme; Kangah, Yannick; Hauglustaine, Didier; Thompson, Rona Louise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a greenhouse gas difficult to estimate by satellite because of its weak spectral signature in the infra-red band and its low variability in the troposphere. Nevertheless, this study presents the ...
    • A flexible algorithm for network design based on information theory 

      Thompson, Rona Louise; Pisso, Ignacio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A novel method for atmospheric network design is presented, which is based on information theory. The method does not require calculation of the posterior uncertainty (or uncertainty reduction) and is therefore computationally ...