Nitrous Oxide and Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9781138977228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str.

Keith Smith;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Nitrous oxide, N2O, is the third most important (in global warming terms) of the greenhouse gases, after carbon dioxide and methane. The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of scientific information on the primary sources and sinks of nitrous oxide and an assessment of likely trends in atmospheric concentrations over the next century and the potential for mitigation measures.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction, Source and Sink Pathways & Mechanisms  1. Introduction  2. Microbial terrestrial pathways to N2O  3. Marine pathways to nitrous oxide (N2O)  4. The Global N2O Budget: A Reassessment  Part 2: Anthropogenic sources; Mitigation  5. N2O emissions from the N cycle in arable agriculture: estimation and mitigation  6. N2O Emissions from the Nitrogen Cycle in Livestock Agriculture: Estimation and Mitigation  7. N2O Emissions from Land-use and Land-management Change  8. Indirect Emissions of N2O from Nitrogen Deposition and Leaching of Agricultural Nitrogen  9. Abiotic N2O Sources: Chemical Industry and Mobile and Stationary Combustion Systems  Part 3: Conclusions and Integration  10. Conclusions and Future Outlook

O autorze

Keith Smith is an Honorary Professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. He has written extensively on climate change and was the Lead Author and Chair of the IPCC subgroup writing the chapter on Nitrous Oxide in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.