Reconciling reported and unreported HFC emissions with atmospheric observations

Author:

Lunt Mark F.,Rigby Matthew,Ganesan Anita L.,Manning Alistair J.,Prinn Ronald G.,O’Doherty SimonORCID,Mühle Jens,Harth Christina M.,Salameh Peter K.,Arnold Tim,Weiss Ray F.,Saito Takuya,Yokouchi Yoko,Krummel Paul B.,Steele L. Paul,Fraser Paul J.,Li Shanlan,Park Sunyoung,Reimann Stefan,Vollmer Martin K.,Lunder Chris,Hermansen Ove,Schmidbauer Norbert,Maione Michela,Arduini Jgor,Young Dickon,Simmonds Peter G.

Abstract

We infer global and regional emissions of five of the most abundant hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) using atmospheric measurements from the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment and the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan, networks. We find that the total CO2-equivalent emissions of the five HFCs from countries that are required to provide detailed, annual reports to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) increased from 198 (175–221) Tg-CO2-eq⋅y–1 in 2007 to 275 (246–304) Tg-CO2-eq⋅y–1 in 2012. These global warming potential-weighted aggregated emissions agree well with those reported to the UNFCCC throughout this period and indicate that the gap between reported emissions and global HFC emissions derived from atmospheric trends is almost entirely due to emissions from nonreporting countries. However, our measurement-based estimates of individual HFC species suggest that emissions, from reporting countries, of the most abundant HFC, HFC-134a, were only 79% (63–95%) of the UNFCCC inventory total, while other HFC emissions were significantly greater than the reported values. These results suggest that there are inaccuracies in the reporting methods for individual HFCs, which appear to cancel when aggregated together.

Funder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Natural Environment Research Council

National Research Foundation of Korea

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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