Nitrous Oxide (N2O): The Dominant Ozone-Depleting Substance Emitted in the 21st Century

By A. Ravishankara, J. Daniel, R. Portmann. Science, 2009

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Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing (2014, background): “The addition of N2O to the atmosphere changes its own lifetime through feedbacks that couple N2O to stratospheric NOy and ozone depletion (Prather, 1998; Ravishankara et al., 2009; Prather and Hsu, 2010), so that the lifetime of a perturbation is less than that of the total burden, 121 ± 10 years (1”
Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks (2010, background): “Increasing N availability is producing unintended environmental consequences including enhanced emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas (2) and an important cause of stratospheric ozone destruction (3).”
Nitrogen Fertilization. A Review of the Risks Associated with the Inefficiency of Its Use and Policy Responses (2021, background): “Agricultural activities around the world are responsible for almost 15 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions [34,35] and for 60–80% of global N2O emissions from human activity [36,37].”
History of chemically and radiatively important atmospheric gases from the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) (2018, background): “Nitrous oxide is the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas (after CO2 and CH4) and the major source of ozone-depleting nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the stratosphere (Ravishankara et al., 2009).”
Inventories and scenarios of nitrous oxide emissions (2014, methodology): “As the third most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas and the largest remaining anthropogenic stratospheric ozone depleting substance currently emitted, nitrous oxide (N2O) is one of the most important forms of nitrogen (N) pollution (Ravishankara et al 2009, Ciais et al 2013).”
Nitrososphaera viennensis, an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil (2011, neutral): “Genes of archaea encoding homologues of ammonia monooxyge-nases have been found on a widespread basis and in large amounts in almost all terrestrial and marine environments, indicating that ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA) might play a major role in nitri ﬁ cation on Earth.”
Nitrous oxide emissions from soils: how well do we understand the processes and their controls? (2013, background): “Second, it is the single most important depleting substance of stratospheric ozone [3].”