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The return of ethane

Nature Geoscience volume 9, pages 475–476 (2016)Cite this article

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Ethane emissions can lead to ozone pollution. Measurements at 49 sites show that long-declining atmospheric ethane concentrations started rising in 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere, largely due to greater oil and gas production in the USA.

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  1. Hannele Hakola and Heidi Hellén are at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, PL 503, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland,

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