Atmospheric Methane (eBook, PDF)

Its Role in the Global Environment
Redaktion: Khalil, Mohammad Aslam Khan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As a "greenhouse gas", methane plays an important role in the earth's environment. This book looks into where it comes from and how it can be controlled.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 351
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783662041451
• Artikelnr.: 53099441

Autorenporträt

As a "greenhouse gas", methane plays an important role in the earth's environment. This book looks into where it comes from and how it can be controlled.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Atmospheric Methane: An Introduction.- Record of Atmospheric Methane.- 2 The Ice Core Record of Atmospheric Methane.- 3 The Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Methane and Its Sources.- Formation and Consumption of Methane.- 4 Biological Formation and Consumption of Methane.- Sources and Sinks.- 5 Can Stable Isotopes and Global Budgets Be Used to Constrain Atmospheric Methane Budgets?.- 6 Methane Sinks, Distributions, and Trends.- 7 Sources of Methane: An Overview.- Methane Emissions from Individual Sources.- 8 Ruminants and Other Animals.- 9 Rice Agriculture: Factors Controlling Emissions.- 10 Rice Agriculture: Emissions.- 11 Biomass Burning.- 12 Wetlands.- 13 Waste Management.- 14 Fossil Fuel Industries.- 15 Geological Sources of Methane.- The Environmental Role of Methane and Current Issues.- 16 Methane in the Global Environment.