Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Abundances
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Long-Term Annual Means with IPCC Scenarios
Figure in PDF. Figure with IPCC 2013 comparisons in PDF. Data: CO2 (Data through 2022, Last updated 2023/03/08)
Recent Mauna Loa CO2
Figure in PDF (Data through April 2023, Last updated 2023/05/10)
Data Source: Dr. Ed Dlugokencky , NOAA/GML (https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/data.html) and Dr. Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/)
Recent Global CO2
Figure in PDF (Data through February 2023, Last updated 2023/05/10)
ERL (2013) Fig. 2 and PLOS ONE (2013) Fig. 6 Update
Annnual change of CO2 (globally since 1980 and at Mauna Loa before that) compared with the annual increase of the global mean surface temperature and Nino 3.4 temperature data. Figure in PDF (Data through January 2023, Last updated 2023/02/22)
"Burden" (2017) Fig. 6 Update
Left: Annnual change of CO2. Right: Correlation between the annual change of CO2 (using only global mean data) and annual change of the global mean surface temperature. Figure in PDF (Data through August 2021, Last updated 2021/11/16)
CO2 Emissions and Airborne Fraction
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Methane (CH4)
Long-Term Annual Means with IPCC Scenarios
Figure in PDF. Figure with IPCC 2013 and 2021 comparisons in PDF. Data: CH4 (Data through 2022, Last updated 2023/04/05)
Recent Global CH4
Figure in PDF (Data through January 2023, Last updated 2023/05/09)
Data Source: Ed Dlugokencky, NOAA/GML (https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4//)
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Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
Long-Term Annual Means with IPCC Scenarios
Figure in PDF. Figure with IPCC 2013 and 2021 comparisons in PDF. Data: N2O (Data through 2022, Last updated 2023/04/05)
Recent Global N2O
Figure in PDF (Data through January 2023, Last updated 2023/05/09)
Data Source: 1978-2000, NOAA/GMD Halocarbon Network. 2001-2021, Ed Dlugokencky, NOAA/GML
(gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_n2o)
QBO (m/s) at 10 hPa (2020/12/09)
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Other Trace Gases
mixing ratios: 1900-1990 (2016/07/02), 1992-2021 (2023/01/18), 2015-2100, Scenario A1B (2018/03/26).
Figure in PDF. (Last modifies 2023/01/19)
forcings: 1900-1990 (2016/07/09),
1992-2021 (2023/01/19),
2011-2100, RCP Scenarios (2023/01/19),
[2015-2100, Scenario A1B (2016/07/04) used before]
Recent Forcing and Its Growtha
Figure in PDF (Data through 2021, Last updated 2023/01/20)
Data source: NOAA ESRL HATS Total_Cl_Br, NOAA GMD HATS SF6 pages.
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Forcing by Doubling Gases
CO2: 4.04 W/m2 (278 => 556 ppm),
CH4: 0.56 W/m2 (722 => 1444 ppb),
N2O: 0.87 W/m2 (270 => 540 ppb)
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Greenhouse Gas Forcing Compared with Future Scenarios
Figure also available in PDF. Data through 2020. (Last modified: 2021/05/07)
Digital data for Scenarios A, B and C. The original figure is Fig. 2 in Hansen, Fung, Lacis, et al. 1988, "Global Climate Changes as Forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies Three-Dimensional Model", JGR 93, 9341-9364.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Greenhouse Gas Forcing Growth Rates
The curves are 5-year running means with 3-year mean for 2021 and annual mean for 2022.
Figure also available in PDF.
(Last modified: 2023/05/20). The original figure is Fig. 4 in Hansen and Sato 2004,
"Greenhouse gas growth rates" PNAS 101, 16109-16114.
The RCP2.6 scenario aims to limit the increase of the global mean temperature to 2oC.