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SCIENCE
Volume 342, Issue 6161, Pages 964-966Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1238920
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- NSF Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [0538578, 0520523, 0944584, 0538538]
- NASA/Oregon Space Grant Consortium [NNG05GJ85H]
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship Program
- NSF [0230396, 0440817, 0944348, 0944266]
- NSF OPP
- Office Of Internatl Science &Engineering
- Office Of The Director [0968391] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [1043518, 0944584, 0520523, 0538538, 0538578] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [0944348] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The origin of the late preindustrial Holocene (LPIH) increase in atmospheric methane concentrations has been much debated. Hypotheses invoking changes in solely anthropogenic sources or solely natural sources have been proposed to explain the increase in concentrations. Here two high-resolution, high-precision ice core methane concentration records from Greenland and Antarctica are presented and are used to construct a high-resolution record of the methane inter-polar difference (IPD). The IPD record constrains the latitudinal distribution of emissions and shows that LPIH emissions increased primarily in the tropics, with secondary increases in the subtropical Northern Hemisphere. Anthropogenic and natural sources have different latitudinal characteristics, which are exploited to demonstrate that both anthropogenic and natural sources are needed to explain LPIH changes in methane concentration.
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