Methane emissions from wetland rice areas of Asia

Technical Report · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6288319

Bachelet, D; Neue, H U

Kahlil and Rasmussen (1990) reviewed eleven global methane budgets published between 1978 and 1988. They found methane emissions from rice paddies ranged from 18 to 280 Tg/year which correspond to between 10 and 70% of the total anthropogenic methane emissions. For the paper, the authors have reviewed and replicated three published techniques to estimate methane emissions from rice paddies. The authors present the results obtained and propose to include soil characteristics to revise these estimates. Since 90% of rice production occurs in Asia, the authors have focused the study on rice in Asia.

• Research Organization: ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc., Corvallis, OR (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6288319
• Report Number(s): PB-93-191468/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AIR POLLUTION
ALKANES
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
ASIA
BUDGETS
CEREALS
CHINA
CLASSIFICATION
CLIMATIC CHANGE
CULTIVATION
ECOSYSTEMS
EMISSION
GASEOUS WASTES
GLOBAL ASPECTS
GRAMINEAE
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
HYDROCARBONS
LILIOPSIDA
MAGNOLIOPHYTA
MAPS
METEOROLOGY
METHANE
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PLANTS
POLLUTION
PRECIPITATION
PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION
PRODUCTION
RICE
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOILS
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
WASTES
WETLANDS