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Science 18 February 1977:
Vol. 195. no. 4279, pp. 673 - 675
DOI: 10.1126/science.195.4279.673
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Anthropogenic CO Emissions: Implications for the Atmospheric CO-OH-CH4 Cycle

NIEN DAK SZE 1

1 Environmental Research & Technology, Inc., Concord, Massachusetts 01742

Present anthropogenic emissions of CO are apparently large enough to perturb the natural CO-OH-CH4 cycle, which plays a crucial role in the self-cleansing processes in the troposphere. A significant increase in global concentrations of CO, CH4 CH3Cl, and other trace gases may result from a decrease in the OH concentration caused by continued CO emissions. Even if the CO emissions were maintained at the present rate, increases in CO and CH4 by the year 2025 might be as large as 50 and 25 percent, respectively. The time constants associated with the perturbations of the CO-OH-CH4 cycle are of the order of a few decades. Perturbation of this cycle may also indirectly affect stratospheric chemistry.

Submitted on August 31, 1976


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